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You Don't Like the Truth – 4 Days Inside Guantánamo

For us, receiving the award for Best Documentary at the 16th edition of the It's All True Festival is a huge honor. For several reasons: It's All True is a festival of international reach. Our heart-felt thanks to Amir Labaki and all his team for their contribution to the diffusion and vitality of the cinematic documentary genre. The level of competency of It's All True is always very high, and just participating in this year's selection, along with works of notable filmmakers, was already extraordinarily gratifying for us.

We want to believe that, beyond the relative value of our work, the jury felt indignation for the enormous injustice that we tried to describe. For the first time in history, a boy has been condemned in Guantanamo as a war criminal. At this same moment, Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, is confined in a cell of total isolation with artificial light for 24 hours a day. His guards are absolutely forbidden to speak to him and they have taken away all the books he read (among them, the biography of Nelson Mandela) and papers and pencils. Omar has been tortured and detained in these conditions for eight years. The Canadian government has never done anything to help him. It is probably this same inhuman indifference that explains why all public Canadian institutions have refused to finance the production of this documentary. That is why this award represents for us a formidable moral encouragement, so necessary in this trade in which we work more with doubts than certainties.

Thank you and long live It's All True!

Luc Côté & Patricio Henriquez
Directors

I am very happy to hear that Cinema Komunisto was so well received at your festival. This is the first time the film was shown in South America, and I know that politically and ideologically there are many themes in the film that you can recognise and relate to. The reputation of Yugoslavia seems to have survived despite the disappearance of the country. Many greetings to all lovers of cinema in Brazil.

Mila Turajlic

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