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I AM GITMO

By Philippe DIAZ

CINEMA LIBRE INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights / PROD

Social issues - Completed 2022

An innocent Muslim schoolteacher is taken from his home to a CIA black site after the 9/11 even then tortured and taken to Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Social issues, Historical, Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, DARI, ARABIC
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Philippe DIAZ
- Cast
- Sammy SHEIK, Eric PIERPOINT, Paul KAMPF, Sean O'BRYAN, Hamzah SAMAN, Iyad HAJJAJ, Mico SAAD, Kent HARPER
- Producer(s)
- Beth PORTELLO (Cinema Libre Studio), Philippe DIAZ (Cinema Libre Studio)
- Synopsis
- During the War on Terror started after 9/11, Gamel Sadek, a Muslim schoolteacher is taken from his home and delivered to Bagram Air Base, a CIA black site, where he is questioned about the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. He is tortured when he denies knowing him. Chained and hooded, he is put on a cargo plane to Guantanamo Bay. John Anderson, a military interrogator, is brought out of retirement and assigned to Gamel’s case leaving his daughter behind in New York. Despite relentless beatings, starvation, and torture in Gitmo, Gamel maintains he has no affiliation with Al Qaeda or Bin Laden. John struggles to accept the new torture methods imposed by General Miller, newly in command of the prison, and the mandate to force a confession at any cost. As Gamel prepares for a hearing on his status as an enemy combatant, he realizes he could be held indefinitely, and that John’s testimony will be the deciding factor.
  
  Based on real events.