Imagine you’re the prisoner of a foreign country’s military. You don’t know your rights, or indeed if you have any. You don’t even know where you are. And one day, government agents from your country of birth bring you a meal from McDonald’s.

“These things make you believe that something good will come,” Patricio Henriquez told the Straight from Montreal. “Something that breaks the routine of being inside a jail is something extraordinary.”

Henriquez was recounting scenes from a new documentary he directed with Luc Côté. The film, You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantánamo, will play next Tuesday (November 30) as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival Motion Pictures series at the SFU Woodward’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (149 West Hastings Street). It’s based on seven hours of video of CSIS agents interrogating Omar Khadr, the Canadian national held at Guantánamo Bay since he was 15 years old.

“Omar, at the beginning, he truly believes that these are people coming to help him,” Henriquez said. But that wasn’t why they were there.

As recounted by Henriquez, the documentary depicts four days of Khadr’s life in 2003.

“One day there is hope,” he said. “The second day there is breakdown, the third day is blackmail, and the fourth day is, frankly, the failure of this exercise.”

Henriquez emphasized that the footage he worked with is some of the only video available from inside Guantánamo. “And I just watched the 10 minutes [that were originally posted on YouTube] and I was shocked,” he said.

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