The Look of Silence

The Look of Silence
reż. Joshua Oppenheimer/Dania, Finlandia, Indonezja, Norwegia, Wielka Brytania, 2014/99 min

“The Look of Silence” is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar®-nominated “The Act of Killing”. Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
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  • projection time:
    99 min
  • country/year:
    Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, UK, 2014
  • director:
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  • pictures:
    Lars Skree
  • production:
    Final Cut for Real, Making Movies Oy, Piraya Film A/S, Spring Films
  • selected festivals and awards:
    2014 – IFF Venice: Grand Jury Prize, Fipresci Prize, Fedeora Prize, 2014 – CPH:DPX Copenhagen: Grand Prize, 2014 – IFF Berlin: Peace Film Prize, 2014 – IFF Göteborg: Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary, 2014 – FF Busan: Best World Documentary, 2014 – TIFF Toronto, 2014 – FF New York, 2014 – FF Telluride

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