Gitmo: The New Rules of War
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Duration Music director Krister Linder Country Sweden | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Running time 1h 22m Screenplay Tarik Saleh, Erik Gandini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Tarik Saleh, Erik Gandini Release date 2005 (2005) Initial release February 10, 2006 (Sweden) Cast Mehdi Ghezali , George W Bush , Janis Karpinski , Donald Rumsfeld , Michael Ratner Similar movies Erik Gandini directed Gitmo – The New Rules of War and Videocracy Tagline The New Rules of War | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gitmo: The New Rules of War is a Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh. The film features interviews with Janis Karpinski, Mehdi Ghezali and Geoffrey Miller, among others.
Gitmo premiered at IDFA in 2005 and reached mainstream theaters in Sweden on 10 February 2006.
In 2003, a year after Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was detained at "Gitmo", which sparked some media interest in Sweden, Erik and Tarik started filming the documentary and visited the base on a guided tour of selected areas. Mehdi Ghezali was released in 2004, and was interviewed for the film.
In 2006, the musical score composed by Krister Linder won first prize for music in a TV feature at the Festival international Musique et Cinéma in Auxerre, France.