Upcoming Screenings:
North Carolina
April 6th (Saturday) 2-5 pm
2:00 PM: Screening of "The UnRedacted (Jihad Rehab)"
4:00 PM: Q&A session with you, the audience!
a/perture Cinema,
(311 W 4th St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101 )Screening followed by an in-person Q&A w/ Meg Smaker
Tickets/Info Here
California
May 5th (Sunday) 2 pm
2:00 PM: Screening of "The UnRedacted (Jihad Rehab)"
4:00 PM: Q&A session with you, the audience!
Longboard
(5 Fitch St, Healdsburg, CA 95448 )Screening followed by an in-person Q&A w/ Meg Smaker
Tickets/Info Here
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“Riveting” -The Wrap
“Incredible” -RogerEbert.com
“an undeniably vital film” - Indiewire
“nothing less than extraordinary” - Film Companion
“#1 film at Sundance this year” - Atlantic Journal-Constitution
“thought-provoking…a miracle and an interrogative act of defiance.” --Variety
"This is a movie for intelligent people looking to have their preconceived notions challenged." - The Guardian
“a moving portrait of souls damaged and destroyed by war”- LA Times
“This kind of willingness and aptitude to understand the layers of the otherized has never felt more urgent.” -Tomris Laffly
“Jihad Rehab can be a vital bridge between two mindsets that instantly hate and fear each other, including our own… makes you look close at lives we as Americans have spent so long trying to look away from” - Nick Allen
“The year’s most controversial documentary” - The Guardian
About The Controversy
“The Shameful Cancelation of Jihad Rehab” - Sebastian Junger
“The Cowardice at Sundance”- The Atlantic (Graeme Wood)
“The film festival gave Meg Smaker’s “Jihad Rehab” a coveted spot in its 2022 lineup, but apologized after an outcry over her race and her approach.” -New York Times (Michael Powell)
“impossible to watch this film and not have serious misgivings about how we conduct our side of the war on terror and gives serious misgivings about Guantanamo.” -Sam Harris
“This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen in my life, hands down” - Coleman Hughes
“I’m a Muslim, and I liked Jihad Rehab” - LA TIMES (Lorrain Ali)
“Jihad Rehab is about compassion, not bigotry.” - Zaid Jilani
“I have never seen a film more Oscar-worthy than Meg’s film.” - Deadline
“The One Film Academy Voters Should Watch” - Puck (Matt Belloni)
“Running Scared: Why Film Festivals Are Steering Clear of Controversial Movies” - Variety (Tatiana Siegel)
“How the Sundance Film Festival Lost Its Cool” - LA Magazine
“Social Panic at Sundance” - Quillette
“There have been some high-profile criticisms that Smaker would dare, as a white person, to tell the stories of these men. Don’t listen. See this transcendent film and decide for yourself whether she did right by them.” -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"It’s hard to overstate the power of Smaker’s debut documentary.." - The Wrap
“As a former firefighter who moved to Afghanistan just months after 9/11 to educate herself on a part of the world she knew nothing about — studying both Arabic and Islamic theory during later years of residing in Yemen — she brings a unique temperament to her unprecedented project, fusing insider expertise with outsider curiosity….there are ample reasons to admire and even be in awe of Smaker’s film, chief among them the courage and tireless inquisitiveness of Smaker herself.” -Variety
“Megan Smaker gives viewers the rare chance to get up close and personal with the men of no nation…” - Hollywood Reporter
"I'll be honest: I was so provoked by the documentary that I had to cool off for a few days before writing this review. The unflinching honesty of Jihad Rehab made me angry - about USA and its arrogance about Afghanistan, about Riyadh, about the human spirits that are restored only to be crushed again. It also made me grateful for filmmakers like Meg Smaker, who take unprecedented leaps of faith without knowing where they will land. With Jihad Rehab, she creates a fire that cannot be doused." - Film Companion
About The Film: A group of men trained by al-Qaeda are transferred from Guantanamo to the world’s first rehabilitation center for “terrorists” located in Saudi Arabia. Shot over three years, with unprecedented access, this film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the men we have heard so much about but never heard from.
Awards
Grand Jury Award - Rome International Film Festival
Audience Award - Warsaw Film Festival
Grand Prize - Anthem Film Festival