Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, 9th Edition: You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo
You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo
dir. Luc Côté and Patricio Henríquez, Canada, 2010, video, 99 mins, English and Arabic w/ English subtitles
You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo is a stunning documentary created from security camera footage of an encounter in Guantanamo Bay between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then a 16-year-old detainee. Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts, the film delves into an unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four-day period. Maintaining a surveillance-camera style, You Don’t Like the Truth analyses the political, legal, and psychological aspects of the interrogation through interviews with Khadr’s lawyers, a psychiatrist, an investigative journalist, former Guantanamo detainees, and a former US interrogator. This unique depiction of Omar Khadr’s interrogation offers an unusual insight into a world where “the truth” itself is often negotiated.
