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 Extraordinary Rendition
BFF Studio Cinema
8.30pm Friday 18 April |
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The term ‘extraordinary rendition’ has entered the public consciousness in recent years, and now a micro-budget British feature aims to add to the debate about the controversial practice.
This striking debut unflinchingly addresses a great humanitarian scandal of our age, namely the titular practice whereby a state delivers criminal suspects to foreign soil to evade the processes and prohibitions of its own domestic judiciary. Omar Berdouni (United 93) plays Zaafir, a London-based academic who likes to push his students into edgy discussion. The nature of his research and personal contacts rings alarm bells somewhere - and Zaafir is plunged into a nightmare that will leave him permanently changed.
Extraordinary Rendition is atmospheric and powerfully insightful about the lasting effects of torture on both victim and perpetrator. The film does not set out with a simplistic agenda, bent on blandly demonising the USA, Blair, the CIA, MI6 etc, instead it aims to tell a fictional story from a singular perspective and leave the audience asking the question: could this happen in a ‘civilised’ world? Is it even credible?
Dir. James Threapleton - 2007 - UK - 77 mins - Cert 15 - BBC Films
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