Trailer
By watching scenes from Joshua Oppenheimer’s film The Act of Killing, about genocide committed in Indonesia since the paramilitary coup of 1965, a family discovers how their son was killed and who did it. Adi, and optometrist and the youngest son, decides to break the spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother. Whilst he tests their sight, Adi invites these men to take responsibility for their actions. Venice and Toronto 2014.
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anônimo
Oppenheimer was born in 1974, in the US. He has attended Harvard University and Central St. Martins, in London. He has directed several shorts and medium-length films, such as The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998). He also directed documentary The Globalization Tapes (2003). The Act of Killing (2012) was awarded in Berlin and nominated for the best documentary Oscar. The identity of the co-director was kept in secret for his safety.
