Directors Luc Côté and Patricio Henríquez are joined by the Toronto Star‘s National Security Reporter, Michelle Shephard, and Human Rights Watch, Senior Counsel on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Andrea Prasow, for tonight’s screening of You Don’t Like The Truth: 4 Days In Guantanamo.
The film documents the bungled interrogation of child soldier, Omar Khadr, at the hands of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in Guantánamo Bay. Côté and Henríquez got access to seven hours of video footage shot during the four-day interrogation, which they transcribed and ultimately used as the base for their documentary.
“I don’t know if he killed that soldier, and I don’t know what I would have done in his situation,” says Henríquez. “But he was 15 years old at the time. According to the international convention Canada has signed, he is a child soldier and needs to be protected.”
Award-winning journalist Michelle Shephard is the author of Guantanamo’s Child, which chronicles the life of Omar Khadr.
To purchase tickets for tonight’s screening of You Don’t Like The Truth: 4 Days In Guantanamo phone 416-599-TIFF (8433) or 1-888-599-8433. Tickets can also be purchased, in person, at TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, Toronto.
