The Guantanamo Trap

In 2006, Murat Kurnazwas released fromGuantanamo after five years detention. MatthewDiaz, Navy Advocate in Guantanamo, was sentenced to six months imprisonment for passing on detainees’ names to a human rights organization. Diane Beaver was also deployed in Guantanamo. She wrote the so called torture memo. Three people, whose lives were forever changed. The film depicts their search for a life after Guantanamo.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Script: Thomas Wallner, Manfred Becker
Cinematography: Filip Zumbrunn, Stephane Kuthy
Editing: Manfred Becker
Sound: Ludger Hennig, Ole von Ohsen
Music: Peter Scherer
Production: zero one film GmbH, Germany Τ.+49 30 390 6630 F. +49 30 394 5834 www.zeroone.de
Producers: Thomas Kufus, Amit Breuer, Marcel Hoehn, Christoph Jorg
Co-production: Amythos Films Inc. (Canada), T&C Film AG (Switzerland), Pumpernickel Production (France)
Format: HDCAM Tape Color
Production Country: Germany-Canada-Switzerland-France
Production Year: 2011
Duration: 90
Contact: First Hand Films, Switzerland Gitte Hansen T. +41 44 312 2060 info@firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com
Awards 
Special Jury Prize (Canadian Feature) - Hot Docs, Canada

Thomas Wallner

Filmography

1995 Solidarity Song: The Hanns Eisler Story (TV) (co-direction)
2009 Tropicana (TV)
2011 The Guantanamo Trap