Look of Silence

Winner
Peace Film Award
Berlin International Film Festival
Winner
FIPRESCI Prize ~ Best Film
Venice Film Festival
A shocking and significant film...a documentary that will make a difference in the world.
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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The Look of Silence

Through Joshua Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered - and the identity of the men who murdered him. The killers live just down the road, and have been in power ever since the genocide. The family's youngest son, born after the genocide, asks how he can raise his children in a society where survivors are terrorized into silence, and everybody is terrorized into treating the murderers as heroes. In search of answers, he decides to confront each of his brother's killers. The killers still hold power, so these confrontations are dangerous. The killers respond with fear, anger, and naked threats. But he manages these encounters with dignity, asking hard questions about how the killers see what they did, how they live side-by-side with their victims, and how they think their victims see them. Through these confrontations, we feel and understand what it is like to live for decades encircled by powerful neighbors who murdered your children. The Look of Silence does something virtually without precedent in cinema or in the aftermath of genocide: it documents survivors confronting their relatives' murderers in the absence of any truth and reconciliation process, while the murderers remain in power.

Winner: 2015 IDA Documentary Awards: Best Film
PG-13
Genre
Documentary, History
Runtime
103
Language
English
Director
Joshua Oppenheimer
Awards:
Winner, Peace Film Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize ~ Best Film, Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Mark Jenkins, NPR

Almost three years ago, Joshua Oppenheimer unveiled The Act of Killing, a startling documentary about the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia. Its audacious ploy was to encourage unrepentant murderers to re-enact their deeds in the form of scenes from action flicks, a tactic that was extremely well ...

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