GUARDIANS OF TRUTH: JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE DARK SECRETS OF WAR

Content note: War, violence
Turkish journalist Can Dündar followed the fight for press freedom in the Julian Assange case for six months before Assange’s surprise release on 25 June 2024. In this film, Dündar and co-director Sarah Mabrouk focus on the disturbing ‘Collateral Murder’ video, Wikileaks’ most controversial publication. It was not the perpetrators who ended up on trial for the possible war crimes committed by US soldiers, but Assange, who had published the secret information. Dündar and Mabrouk find a survivor of the attack in Iraq as well as a US soldier who was involved in the incident, and shows that, even seventeen years after the events, pain and trauma linger.

• The cinema premiere will be followed by a prominent panel discussion on the balancing act between freedom of the press and politics, guilt, and reconciliation. Director and patron of the HRFFB, Can Dündar, director Sarah Mabrouk as well as WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson and another guest will discuss the topics. The film's protagonists, Sajad Mutasha and Ethan McCord have been invited. The event will be moderated by Dr. Melinda Crane, Chief Politcal Correspondent at Deutsche Welle TV.

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