The Trial is a 2009 documentary film made by Headland Pictures following the trial for war crimes of the former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj.
Directed and produced by Rob O'Reilly and John Murphy, the film follows Haradinaj's legal team behind the scenes as they struggle to defend their client. It also features interviews with Haradinaj himself, as well as Soren Jessen-Petersen, the former head of UNMIK in Kosovo, and Klaus Reinhardt, the former head of NATO in Kosovo.
The film was shot in mainly in the Netherlands and Kosovo.
The film premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2009.
^ http://www.headlandpictures.com/the-trial-film.html
^ http://www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/pr_2009.php?p=wednesday/the_trailSynopsis
In September 1998, at the end of the Balkan wars, the military of Yugoslavia discovered 37 dead bodies in a concrete canal in western Kosovo. Seven years later, the Prime Minister of Kosovo would be falsely accused of their murder.