Nightmares

Cannes will be screening a recut version of the BBC series on the psychological wierdities of the war on terror, The Power of Nightmares.

"It has really touched a nerve with people who realise something is not quite right with the way terrorism has been reported."

He said the fact that the series has been made into a movie may encourage US distributors to screen it, after programme-makers failed to have the series shown on US television.

The series talks about the ways that the war was reported as well as manipulated in the news-media as something of a commodity. It looks at the cultural emotion of fear and how it erodes rationality, and how a war itself can be popularly supported through information aimed at affecting psychological drives.