The Look of Silence

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary follows an optician reckoning with the legacy of Indonesia’s 1965-66 mass killings, in which his brother was killed.

This Academy-award nominated documentary follows a family surviving the aftermath of Indonesia’s 1965-66 anti-communist purges, during which more than 500,000 people were murdered. When footage of the genocide’s perpetrators is shown to them, the film documents their reactions as they learn the identities of those responsible for their son’s murder.

The Look of Silence is documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful follow-up to The Act of Killing - a dignified, insightful and deeply unsettling companion piece.