Mauritanian

Mauritanian (USA Import)

Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Benedict Cumberbatch star in this thriller centred on the legal plight of a Guantanamo Bay detainee. Two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Salahi (Tahar Rahim) is arrested by the US government and held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp for over a decade. Defence lawyer Nancy Hollander (Foster) and her junior associate Teri Duncan (Woodley) take up his case as military prosecutor Lt.

Colonel Stuart Couch (Cumberbatch) seeks the death penalty. However, a vast conspiracy emerges in the course of both parties' investigations.