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Incendies

Synopsis
The documentary features the story of Omar Khadr, in which he was captured in 2002 by Americans in Afghanistan and was charged with war crimes. The film takes an in-depth look at how Khadr at 15 years old became the center of one of the first American war crimes trial since the 1940s through Khadr’s own perspective. Omar Khadr for the first time was given the opportunity to speak for himself on camera. Khadr pleaded guilty to five war crimes in October 2010 for a plea deal which gave him a chance to possibly return to Canada and an eight-year sentence. Omar Khadr spent a decade at Guantanamo, “Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr features unprecedented access and exclusive interviews with Khadr during his first few days of freedom in Edmonton, where he was released on bail on May 7, 2015". The film is in part based on Michelle Shepard’s book Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr; the documentary follows through the timeline between Khadr’s childhood and his time at Guantanamo till his current life of freedom.

Reception
Guantanamo’s Child: Omar Khadr was nominated for an Emmy at the 37th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The film was nominated in the Outstanding Coverage of Current News Story-- Long Form category, along with PBS Frontline projects, Secrets, Politics and Torture and Inside Assad’s Syria. The documentary has also received the  Best Direction in a Documentary Program award at the ''Academy of Canadian Cinema. ''



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