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The Look of Silence (16+)

Denmark , 2014, colour, 99 min.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
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 killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother's murder – something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Oppenheimer

was born in 1974 in Texas, USA. Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oppenheimer is Artistic Director of the Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster in London. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

FILMOGRAPHY

«These places we’ve learned to call home», 1997; «The entire history of the Louisiana purchase», 1997; «Land of enchantment», 2001; «The globalization tapes», 2003; «Show of force», 2007; «The look of silence», 2014.
Denmark , 2014, colour, 99 min.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
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 killed him. The youngest brother is determined to break the spell of silence and fear under which the survivors live, and so confronts the men responsible for his brother's murder – something unimaginable in a country where killers remain in power.