• Director(s):

    GRAPPE (MARJOLAINE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET

One of Barack Obama’s electoral promises was to close down Guantanamo. Since 2002, the prison, which is located on a US base in Cuba, has housed the “enemy combatants” of the US, in the War on Terror launched by Bush after the 9/11 attacks. Today, Guantanamo is tarnishing the image of the US.

The prisoners, who were arrested either without valid reasons or on the strength of false accusations, have spent several years of their lives in the prison on the island of Cuba. For no reason. They are to be gradually released. Discreetly.
Today, 11 years after they were first transferred to Guantanamo, dozens of innocent prisoners are still waiting behind the barbed wire. Outcasts for life, they run the risk of imprisonment or even the death sentence if they return home. A hunger strike movement is now gathering pace at Guantanamo: over 60% of detainees are refusing to eat, in an effort to denounce their incarcerations that were imposed without charges or trials.
 
ARTE Reportage obtained rare access to Guantanamo prison and found key witnesses blocked in US jails in Cuba.

2014: Grand Prix FIGRA (Le Touquet Paris-Plage, France).