Bloody Cartoons
Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar, France, Turkey and Denmark

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.

 

Key Issues

 

  • Freedom of Expression
  • Islamaphobia
  • Cultural Beliefs
  • Intolerance
  • Western Ignorance