This Saturday is International Human Rights Day and to mark the date the Galway Alliance Against War is organising an evening of films in the Nuns Island Theatre.
The first film to be shown is Ken Loach’s latest political thriller, Route Irish, at 5.30pm. It is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller that delivers a fresh insight into the moral and political corruption at play in Iraq. Ken Loach is best known for films such as The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Looking For Eric, and Kes.
The main feature 4 Days Inside Guantánamo, will receive its Irish premier at 8pm. This new documentary shows, for the first time, an encounter between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and a child detainee in Guantánamo.
The documentary is based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts. The footage is shocking. At the time of the interrogation in February 2003, the boy, Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, was barely 16 and had been in military custody for seven months. Omar is now aged 25 and is still being held in Guantánamo.
Admission to both films is free.
