THE ACT OF KILLING Follow-up THE LOOK OF SILENCE Trailer

Drafthouse Films has released a trailer for Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence, his follow-up to the Oscar nominated documentary The Act of Killing, which looks at the Indonesian genocide which left over a million people dead at the hands of kill squads supposedly attempting to wipe out communism in the country.

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.