Watch The Powerful Trailer For Joshua Oppenheimer’s THE LOOK OF SILENCE

THE LOOK OF SILENCE is Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to the Oscar-nominated The Act Of Killing.

“THE LOOK OF SILENCE represents a tough but essential counterpoint to the more obviously extraordinary first film,” wrote Catherine Bray (HitFix) in her review.

Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers.

The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions.

This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.

Oppenheimer said, ” the film is a monument to silence – a reminder that although we want to move on, look away and think of other things, nothing will make whole what has been broken. Nothing will wake the dead. We must stop, acknowledge the lives destroyed, strain to listen to the silence that follows.”

From Drafthouse Films, THE LOOK OF SILENCE will be in theaters this summer.

http://thelookofsilence.com/