A clip for The Oath which will play at the 2010 San Francisco Film Festival
In the second film of her post-9/11 trilogy, Poitras unfolds a complex portrait of two men once close to Osama bin Laden: an Al Qaeda insider driving a cab in Yemen and his brother-in-law, a Guantanamo Bay detainee. Through this personal story slowly unfolds an indictment of the “war on terror.”