The Look of Silence

Through 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 youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, 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.

Rating

PG-13

Release Year

2014

Duration

01:43

Genres

Documentary, History

Director

Joshua Oppenheimer

Cast

Adi Rukun, M. Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan