You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo

You Don't Like The Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo is an award winning 2010 documentary. The film focuses on the recorded interrogations of Canadian child soldier Omar Khadr, by Canadian intelligence personnel that took place over four days from February 13-16, 2003. It presents these with observations by his lawyers and former cell mates from the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and Guantanamo Bay detention camps.

The film premièred at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, in Montreal in October 2010. The film was shown to Canadian parliamentarians in October 2010. Khadr's defence attorney's planned to show the film during their summation if Khadr's trial went forward.

According to the Montreal Gazette the film-makers, Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, also produced a series of short YouTube videos as a companion to the feature length documentary.

Shortly before the film's premiere Canada lost its bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nations Security Council. According to Rhéal Séguin, writing in The Globe and Mail, the filmmakers "are convinced one reason Canada failed to get a seat on the United Nations Security Council was because the federal government has been condemned by many countries for failing to respect Mr. Khadr's human rights and the provisions of the international convention on child soldiers."

Awards
The film won the Special Jury Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

The film won an award for "best documentary about society" at the Prix Gémeaux on September 13 2011.

The film was nominated in the best documentary category for the 2010 Genie awards.

According to a September 27 2011 review in the Film Journal the film does not have a distributor in the United States, but is eligible for an Oscar nomination due to opening in New York City in September 2011.

Reviews
Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, wrote "His unseen interrogator here is a Canadian intelligence officer, evidently the lead officer in a team, permitted by the Americans to question the prisoner on the understanding that a friendly seeming fellow countryman might cause Khadr to open up and give the US valuable intelligence. So far from being a respite from torture, this insincere friendly chat is a hideous refinement of cruelty: a horrifying turn of the screw."

According to Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, "Khadr became a sort of ritual sacrifice by the Canadian government, an offering to its American allies and/or overlords."

Sam Kressner, writing in Filmcritic.com, wrote that : ""The question posed in You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo is not that of Omar's innocence. We will never know what truly happened. Rather, the crux of the film lies in the legal "black-hole" that Guantánamo detainees find themselves in. Is it possible to hold a man, let alone a child, accountable to the status of Prison of War, illegal under United Nations law since the days of the Nuremberg Trials?""