Road to Guantanamo

The Road to Guantanamo won the prestigious Silver Bear for Direction for Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross in competition at The 56th Berlin International Film Festival.

Brittain's Channel 4 interviewed him in preparation for a March 9, 2006 airing of the saga on how a group of friends set off to a wedding in Pakistan in September 2001 and somehow blunder into the war in Afghanistan. The film-makers tell the story using reconstructions with actors, newsreel footage and interviews. At the outset, we hear President Bush solemnly telling the world that the Guantánamo prisoners are "bad guys". Once we meet Ruhel, Asif, Shafiq and Monir, the irony becomes evident. The young Brits, who became know as the Tipron Three, that Bush seems to regard as the embodiment of evil are ordinary lads, neither especially political nor devoutly religious.

No stranger to making movies about controversial issues, Winterbottom won the Berlin International Film Festival's top prize in 2003 for "In this World," which portrayed people fleeing Afghanistan by using real refugees as actors, and combined drama and documentary.

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