[imc-wellington] The Road to Guantanamo - Wellington Indymedia film night

[ksimpson at ihug.co.nz]

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Wellington Indymedia film show 

at The Film Archive, corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets
Friday 28 and Saturday 29 September
7 pm start
Entry $8/$6  waged/unwaged


The Road to Guantanamo (2006)   1 hr 35 min

Directors: Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantanamo focuses on the Tipton
Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two
years until they were released without charge.

In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul
and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a surge
of idealism, decide to see the situation of war-torn Afganistan which is
being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist
attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are
captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are handed over to the
American forces who transport them to the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay
base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment,
interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong
confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three
struggle to keep their spirits up in the face of this grave injustice.

Awarded best British documentary film in the British Independent film
awards 2006, best documentary in the Independent Spirit awards 2007, and
the Berlin Silver Bear in the Berlin International film festival 2006.

The Film Archive and the Wellington Independent Media collective
(www.indymedia.org.nz) are pleased to present this very moving film.