FILM / Q&A MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM March 11, 2006

FILM / Q&A MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM: THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO
Everyman Cinema
Saturday 11 March [3:30pm]

5 Holly Bush Vale, NW3 T:0870.066.4777 Tube: Hampstead
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Would you stop and help someone who was being mugged? Most of us have had this conversation -- probably after one of you has been relieved of your mobile phone in broad daylight and no one stopped. Well, we would all like to think we would assist, wouldn't we? Yet Guantanamo can only exist in a world where people actively block out evil and the plain illegal so as not to "get involved". Michael Winterbottom, famous for Welcome To Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People and A Cock And Bull Story is making a fuss with The Road To Guantanamo, the story of ex-detainees the Tipton Three, which features real footage and dramatisation. A shocking and challenging vision which is uncomfortably familiar -- we knew all along right? Starring Oxford grad, actor and rapper Riz Ahmed, and Farhad Harun, the film won Berlin's Silver Bear. All too ironically, while returning from Berlin two of the Tipton Three, Riz and Farhad, were detained at Luton Airport under our new terrorist laws, searched, investigated and then freed. Reprieve legal director Clive Stafford Smith said: "This may be a farce, but it is an ugly farce".
NB: watch The Road To Guantanamo on Channel 4 on Thu 09/03 (9pm) and if you cannot make the Everyman Q&A catch one at the Curzon Soho with Michael Winterbottom and two of the Tipton Three, Shafiq Rasul and Ruhel Ahmed, on Fri 10/03 (5pm).

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