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Ouïghours, prisonniers de l'absurde

2014 1 h 38 min
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Ce long métrage documentaire raconte la longue épopée de 22 Ouïghours prisonniers de Guantanamo. Ils se trouvent en Afghanistan en octobre 2001 lorsque les États-Unis envahissent le pays pour traquer Oussama ben Laden. Ces hommes sont turcophones musulmans et appartiennent à la minorité chinoise ouïghoure, réprimée par le pouvoir central de Beijing. Du nord de la Chine à la base américaine de Guantanamo, le film de Patricio Henrìquez suit l’incroyable odyssée de trois de ces rescapés de l’absurde associés, malgré eux, au terrorisme mondial.

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Ce long métrage documentaire raconte la longue épopée de 22 Ouïghours prisonniers de Guantanamo. Ils se trouvent en Afghanistan en octobre 2001 lorsque les États-Unis envahissent le pays pour traquer Oussama ben Laden. Ces hommes sont turcophones musulmans et appartiennent à la minorité chinoise ouïghoure, réprimée par le pouvoir central de Beijing. Du nord de la Chine à la base américaine de Guantanamo, le film de Patricio Henrìquez suit l’incroyable odyssée de trois de ces rescapés de l’absurde associés, malgré eux, au terrorisme mondial.

Foreign Countries Developing Countries War, Conflict and Peace All subjects
  • producer
    Patricio Henríquez
    Colette Loumède
  • None
    Patricio Henríquez
    Nicolas Borycki
    Adam Shermann
    Françoise Guénette
    Sylvie Dupuis
    Post-Moderne
    Guillaume Pelletier
    Claude Bourgault
    Dominic Nudo
    Jenny Cartwright
    Catherine Benoît
  • direction
    Patricio Henríquez
  • creative content producer
    Michelle Shephard
  • editing
    Andrea Henriquez
  • images
    Sylvestre Guidi
    Patricio Henríquez
  • location sound
    Karim Amin
    Luc Côté
  • research
    Michelle Shephard
    Françoise Guénette
    Luc Côté
    Patricio Henríquez
  • animation
    Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
    Brigitte Archambault
  • original music
    Robert Marcel Lepage
    Nicolas Borycki
  • musician
    Andrew Wells-Oberegger
    Marton Maderspach
    Robin Girard
    François Pilon
    Jean-Félix Mailloux
    Robert Marcel Lepage
    Nicolas Borycki
  • sound editing
    Claude Langlois
    Mélanie Gauthier
  • sound mixing
    Richard Pelletier
  • supplementary footage
    Rénald Bellemare
    Alex Margineanu
  • editing assistant
    Nils Caneele
    Jenny Cartwright
  • music recording
    Nicolas Borycki
  • music mix
    Nicolas Borycki
  • interpreter
    Rushan Abbas
  • translation
    Sylvie Dupuis
    Saif Fazel Ullah
    Kayum Masimov
  • transcripts
    Magenta Baribeau
    Sas Harris
  • visual archives research
    Jenny Cartwright
  • coordinator
    Myriam Therrien
  • colorist
    Julien Alix
  • assistant editor
    Jessie-Lee Labonté
    Charles Tranquille
  • audio post-production
    Audio Zone Inc.
  • technical director
    Denis Boisvert
  • administrator
    John Chretien
    Sia Koukoulas
  • marketing officer
    François Jacques
  • production coordinator
    Hélène Regimbal
  • administrative assistant
    Larissa Christoforo
  • technical coordinator
    Richard Cliche
    Mira Mailhot
  • delegate producer
    Mélanie Lasnier
  • executive producer
    Colette Loumède

Education

Ages 17 to 18
School subjects
Civics/Citizenship - Human Rights Social Studies - Contemporary Issues Social Studies - Law

Ideal for essays, research projects and discussions on human rights, anti-terrorism policy and international law. Research the status of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility under successive U.S. administrations, and the legal status of the remaining detainees. Research why Canada refused to accept any Uyghur detainees. Compare the language of “terrorists” and “enemy combatants” to the debate around Syrian refugees, and compare the Canadian response to that crisis with the responses of European countries, the U.S. or other nations.

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