''Gitmo: The New Rules of War'' is a
Swedish
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documentary about the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp ( es, Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and Gitmo (), on the coast of Guant ...
by
Erik Gandini
Erik Walter Gandini (born 14 August 1967) is an Italian-Swedish film director, writer, and producer anprofessorof documentary film at Stockholm University of the Arts.
His film '' The Swedish Theory of Love'' premiered at the 2015 Stockholm Inte ...
and
Tarik Saleh
Tarik Saleh ( ar, طارق صالح; born 28 January 1972) is a Swedish television producer, animator, publisher, journalist and film director. He was born in Högalids församling, Stockholm to a Swedish mother and an Egyptian father. In th ...
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The film features interviews with
Janis Karpinski
Janis Leigh Karpinski ( Beam, born May 25, 1953) is a retired career officer in the United States Army Reserve. She is notable for having commanded the forces that operated Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, at the time of the ...
,
Mehdi Ghezali
Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali ( ar, مهدي محمد غزالي), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede ( sv, Kubasvensken), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States G ...
and
Geoffrey Miller, among others.
Gitmo premiered at
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in 2005 and reached mainstream theaters in Sweden on 10 February 2006.
In 2003, a year after Swedish citizen
Mehdi Ghezali
Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali ( ar, مهدي محمد غزالي), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede ( sv, Kubasvensken), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States G ...
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
Krister Linder is a Swedish electronic musician.
Krister started his music career in 1987 as the vocalist of the Swedish band Grace. Under the name Chris Lancelot, he was the vocalist of the Swedish band Dive from 1990 to 1994.
Linder went on ...
won first prize for music in a TV feature at the
Festival international Musique et Cinéma in
Auxerre
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,
France
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.
References
External links
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Review in Svenska Dagbladet
2005 films
Swedish documentary films
2000s Swedish-language films
2005 documentary films
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Films directed by Erik Gandini
Films directed by Tarik Saleh
2000s Swedish films
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