While The Act of Killing looked at high ranking members of these executioners, The Look of Silence explores the lives of the victims of the genocide and it looks every bit as heart-wrenching.
Drafthouse Films will be releasing the film sometime next year. If you haven’t seen The Act of Killing yet, I highly recommend checking that one out, as it’s easily one of the best documentary films ever created.
Through director 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.