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Without mincing words, Jihad Rehab is certainly a problematic film about a controversial subject. World-premiered in the US Documentary Competition of this year’s Sundance Film Festival (20-30 January), in her latest endeavour American firefighter-turned-filmmaker Megan Smaker (Boxeadora, Methel Island) decides to deep dive into the lives of a group of four former Guantanamo detainees of Yemeni citizenship. “The screening of the film jeopardised the safety and security of the subjects involved, it provided a platform for subpar journalistic ethics and standards and reproduced bias against Musl…