Karsten Kjaer / Denmark / 2007 / 52 min.
Bloody Cartoons is a documentary about how and why 12 drawings in a Danish provincial paper could whirl a small
country into a confrontation with Muslims all over the world. He asks whether respect for Islam combined with
the heated response to the cartoons is now leading us towards self-censorship. How tolerant should we be,
he wonders, of the intolerant. And what limits should there be, if any, to freedom of speech in a democracy.
The director films in Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar, France, Turkey and Denmark, talking to some of the people
that played key roles during the cartoon crisis.
Screenings
Category
Human Rights
Production Company
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