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The Look of Silence

Executive produced by renowned filmmakers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, this Oscar-nominated documentary gives the families of those killed during the 1965 Suharto coup the opportunity to interrogate the killers. Experimental, investigative and distinctive, Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow up to The Act of Killing is co-produced by London-based Spring Films and Britdoc Foundation.

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An optician called Ali confronts the men who killed his older brother during the 1960s genocide in Indonesia. The elderly and remorseless killers reenact their crimes in the style of their favourite films.