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The Glasgow director behind The Last King of Scotland points his lens to Guantanamo Bay in his new film.

When Jodie Foster first strides into the Guantanamo Bay detention center in “The Mauritanian,” you may stifle a smile, even under such thoroughly mirthless circumstances. It’s a grim descent, preceded by barbed-wire fences, tight security checks and warnings about what to do (don’t panic, sit tight) if a detainee happens to lunge across the table. Still, as long marches down hellish prison corridors go, it’s arguably preferable to the walk Foster took 30 years ago in “The Silence of the Lambs”: This time, she’s not an anxious FBI trainee but a seasoned defense attorney, and th...

Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald's leap from Glasgow to Guantanamo Bay Published image captionFrench-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim plays Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the author of the prison memoirs A lockdown premier for Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald's new film is fitting for a drama centred on a prisoner. The filmmaker from Glasgow is telling the true story of a man detained in Guantanamo Bay without charge for 14 years. The memoir had to be smuggled out of the notorious jail via its author's lawyer. But the book has now become a major movie starring Jodie Foster, Tahir Rahim, and Benedict Cumb...

Watch the THE MAURITANIAN Trailer. American defense attorney Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and her associate Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) want to...

The Mauritanian tells the true story of a man detained in Guantanamo Bay on no charges from 2002 to 2016