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I AM GITMO

By Philippe DIAZ

CINEMA LIBRE INTERNATIONAL - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, World / PROD

Historical - Completed 2021

Gamel Sadek, sold out by his country, is wrongly torn from his family and tortured in Guantanamo Bay for information he knows nothing about.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 119 mn
- Director(s)
- Philippe DIAZ
- Synopsis
- Afghanistan 2002: Taken from his home, Gamel Sadek, a Muslim schoolteacher is delivered to a CIA black site and accused of involvement in 9/11. Despite insisting the accusations are false, Gamel is chained, hooded, and sent on a cargo plane to Guantanamo Bay. John Anderson, a military interrogator, is brought out of retirement and assigned to Gamel's case. Despite relentless beatings, starvation, and torture, Gamel maintains he has no affiliation with al-Qaeda. John struggles with 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.