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Montreal filmmakers Luc Coté and Patricio Henriquez's deeply disturbing film You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo won as best documentary about society at the first Gémeaux Awards gala Tuesday night.
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- ↑ Odile Tremblay, "Histoire d'horreurs". Le Devoir , December 7, 2002.
- ↑ "1999 Hot Docs Awards Archive". Archived from the original on December 4, 2011.
- ↑ "The Holier It Gets tops Hot Docs fest". The Globe and Mail , May 9, 2000.
- ↑ "Henriquez doc wins Chalmers". Playback , May 29, 2000.
- 1 2 Brendan Kelly (2014-10-09). "Film chronicles the fate of the Uyghurs in Guantánamo". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 2014-10-16.
Henríquez's latest film, Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd, chronicles the fascinating and oh-so-disturbing tale of the 22 members of China's Muslim Uyghur minority who were held at Guantánamo for more than a decade. They were never convicted of any crime and all indications are that they had nothing to do with any terrorist organization.
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