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The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA

Amnesty International presents the 16th annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival at the Northwest Film Forum in Capitol Hill, February 15th to 17th. With our theme of Justice Without Borders, the festival includes films dealing with International Human Rights and Violence Against Women. Discussions with filmmakers and activists to follow screenings. Show your support for cinema with a social conscience by attending the festival.

Note: Directors: Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker 2006. Germany/USA. 72 min. English. In a middle class house on a quiet street in Baghdad, a family is fast asleep. Without warning, the front door is crashed in and American soldiers storm the house looking for weapons and bomb-making material. A search of the house uncovers no incriminating evidence, however Yunis Khatayer Abbas and three of his brothers are taken and detained. Bent on forcing Yunis to confess to crimes he did not commit, his captors press him with bizarre questions about music tastes, sexual preferences and Harrison Ford. His intelligence value exhausted, he is then transferred to Abu Ghraib Prison. The charge: Planning the Assassination of Tony Blair. Combining Tucker's embedded footage, Yunis' home movies, testimony from former guard Benjamin Thompson and original comic book art, Tucker and Epperlein trace the moving story of an ordinary man trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

Contact

Who:	Julia Nolan-Wheatley
Phone:	206-228-8369
Email:	filmfest@aiwashington.org
Web:	http://www.aiwashington.org/filmfest.html
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