Brian De Palma’s commentary on current television journalism and Internet media and how in times of war censorship is always applied to the reporting of damaging facts. In this low budget film, the famous director reconstructs a day in March 2006 in the town of Mahmudiyah, Iraq. As a response to an improvised bomb attack, American recruits rape a 14-year-old girl and kills her parents and her sister. Here, he shows that using modern communication techniques more uncensored imagery about wars exists than people are held accountable for in reality. The real, documentary images at the end of the film speak for themselves.

Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Introduction of the film by Mayke Vermeren, Programming Director of the Zebracinema and cinema professor.

Film not in official selection.