Docu-Drama about 4 Pakistani men detained at guantanamo premiers at Berlin

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0218-02.htm

It was at the half-way stage of the Berlin International Film Festival on Tuesday that Michael Winterbottom's 'The Road to Guantanamo' received its 'in-competition' world premiere at the Berlinale Palast cinema on the Potsdamer Platz.

The movie, one of 19 films currently chasing the top Golden Bear award at the jamboree, impressed critics in Berlin and led to the liveliest press conference yet held at the ten-day Festival.

Winterbottom's film tells the true life "horror story" of four young men of Pakistan origin -- one of them now presumed dead -- who travel to Karachi, then on to a village near Faisalabad in Punjab, where one of them, Asif Iqbal, is to marry a bride chosen for him by his mother.

The group gathers shortly before the wedding. Then on the spur of the moment they embark on a well-intentioned but unwise escapade into Afghanistan to help victims of the war -- just days before American bombardments start in September 2001.


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I saw In This World and Welcome to Sarajevo; from what I know, Winterbottom is an EXCELLENT director. I know he's doing Guantanamo justice!

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