We Are Not Ghouls, the compelling new documentary by Chris James Thompson, wants you to think about questions of justice. When Yvonne Bradley—a public defender and Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force—volunteered to defend Binyam Mohamed, she was initially apprehensive. Mohamed was being held on charges of terrorism in Guantanamo Bay in the years following the 9/11 terror attacks and the declaration of war on terror in Afghanistan. But as Bradley learned more about her client and the circumstances that led to his detention—as well as the U.S. government’s shifting justification for holding and trying him—she grew more concerned that the U.S. justice system was not living up to its ideals. We Are Not Ghouls traces Lt. Col. Bradley’s attempts to provide her client with the defense he was constitutionally entitled to in the face of a powerful government that hoped to net convictions quickly after a devastating, historic attack. In her calm, careful, winning manner, Lt. Col. Bradley starkly lays out a paradox at the heart of the U.S. legal system: America provides the tools and rights for justice to work fairly and impartially, even if, in practice, the system can sometimes fall short of those noble ideals. (JB)

SCHEDULED TO ATTEND: CHRIS JAMES THOMPSON, LT. COL. YVONNE BRADLEY, PAM BRADLEY

INTRODUCTION BY CHANCELLOR JENNIFER MNOOKIN, POST SCREENING Q&A MODERATED BY PROFESSOR TYRELL HABERKORN