The documentary, "Arabs And Terrorism", has been disallowed to be screened at the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF). The following from the SIFF homepage.
3 April 2008The synopsis of the film is below
URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT:
Please note that the following film has been disallowed and will not be screened:
Title: Arabs And Terrorism
Date: 5 April 2008
Time: 11am
Venue: The Substation
It will be replaced with a screening of Amina(PG).
Ticket holders of Arabs And Terrorism can use their tickets for the replacement screening, or get a refund at the Festival Secretariat by 14th April 2008.
Arabs and Terrorism
Bassam Haddad | USA | 2007 | 135 mins | TBA
Researched in six different languages, 11 countries, 120 experts and politicians as well as hundreds of street interviews, this fast-paced documentary is determined to unearth what is said about Arabs and Terrorism. Tired of empty rhetoric about the fight against terrorism from Washington, D.C. neo-conservatives (and curious of many assertions made by the Bush administration), Arab-American filmmaker Bassam Haddad decided to seek the truth for himself, camera-in-hand, and thus sparks an impassioned dialogue between right-wing American policymakers and Middle Eastern political factions.
Haddad's method of documentary involves having interviews with political power-players on each side of the transcontinental (and trans-ideological) fence - American and Arab; recording each interview on his laptop; and having each interviewee view and respond to allegations made by the other side. The result is a documentary that dares to journey into waters seldom treaded by other filmmakers, by travelling right to the core of the ideological debate that lies behind the war on terror and investigating what the Arab people actually think, believe and desire -- independent of media bias.
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