Director Kevin Macdonald On The Real-Life Inspiration For ‘The Mauritanian’: “He’s Such An Extraordinary Person” – Contenders Film
True stories provide fertile breeding ground for awards-season contenders, but few biographies are as rich and strange as that of Mohamedou Ould Salahi, who spent 14 years in Guantanamo Bay on flimsy terrorism charges as the U.S. fought an often-directionless war on terror. The story of how he came to be tracked and renditioned is […]