The Road to Guantánamo

Rating: MA 15+
Running Time: 95 Minutes

The Road to Guantánamo received a standing ovation at its world premiere screening at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, introduced by Michael Winterbottom, the actors and the real Tipton Three. On their return from Berlin, the four actors who played Shafiq, Ruhel, Asif and Monir, plus two of the Tipton Three were detained under British anti terror laws at Luton Airport in February 2006.

Known as the 'Tipton Three', in reference to their home town in Britain, the film tells the story of three British nationals of Muslim faith who were held without charges in the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. After two years of imprisonment they were eventually returned to Britain and released, still having had no formal charges ever made against them at any time during their ordeal.

Part documentary, part dramatization, the film chronicles the sequence of events that led the trio from Tipton in the British Midlands to a wedding in Pakistan to their crossing the Afghanistan border just as the U.S. began its bombing campaign, to eventual capture by the Northern Alliance to imprisonment at Camp X-Ray and later at Camp Delta in Guantánamo.

With unsurpassed dramatic authenticity and the spirit of a road movie, Winterbottoms film brilliantly re-creates this first hand account of the most notorious prison in modern history. Shot on location in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran with actors playing the highly physical and mentally demanding roles, it also features searing testimonies from the real 'Tipton Three' and incendiary news bites from George Bush, Tony Blair and Donald Rumsfeld.

The Road to Guantánamo is both a powerful indictment of an illegal and indefensible internment policy and a white-knuckle adventure.

In Cinemas November 9

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