The Guantanamo Files – events

I’m pleased to report that Monday night’s screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” at the Free Word Centre on Farringdon Road was a great success. The screening took place as part of the London International Documentary Festival, and featured an excellent panel for the post-screening Q&A session — former [...]

I’ve already posted an article about the screening tonight of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” as part of the London International Documentary Festival at the Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1, so this is primarily a last-minute reminder, although it also gives me an opportunity to report on Saturday’s protest about the [...]

I’m delighted to report that a date has now been finalized for the screening of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) as part of the London International Documentary Festival. The film festival runs from April 23 to May 10 at twelve different venues throughout [...]

Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I have just returned from an excellent week-long trip to Scotland, where we were promoting the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) as part of an ongoing UK tour of the film. We also encouraged audiences to write to foreign [...]

If you’re looking for confirmation that discussions of torture and imprisonment without charge or trial can galvanize the public, then a crowd of 500 students in Kent watching a film about Guantánamo on Thursday evening ought to provide conclusive proof. The film in question is the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” [...]

Throughout this year, I’m touring the UK with former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, showing the new documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash). In the last few weeks, Omar and I (often accompanied by Polly) have screened the film in London, Oxford, Bradford and Norwich, and this week [...]

Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I have just returned from a successful two-day trip showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) in Bradford and Norwich, as part of an ongoing UK tour. As with recent screenings — at Amnesty International’s London HQ, at the [...]

On Friday, there was another successful screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary film, co-directed by Polly Nash and myself, which was chosen as the closing film in Oxford Brookes University’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival (also see here). The screening was part of an ongoing UK tour of the film, [...]

On Saturday afternoon, a packed house at the National Film Theatre watched the new Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and myself), in a screening organized by the BFI (British Film Institute). Afterwards, in a Q&A session filmed by the production company Spectacle (which will be online soon), [...]

It was a full house yesterday evening at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre in London, for a screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” directed by Polly Nash and myself. I’m glad to report that the film was very well received, and was followed by an excellent Q&A session with myself and former [...]