The Look of Silence

Joshua Oppenheimer's companion film to The Act of Killing approaches the same 1965 atrocities from the victims' perspective. Adi Rukun's quiet, devastating interrogations of his brother's murderers — most still in positions of power — produce some of the most uncomfortable silences ever filmed.

• Adi Rukun, the protagonist, is an optometrist by profession.
• Filmed concurrently with The Act of Killing.
• The interviews with the killers were arranged through their previous trust of Oppenheimer.
• Oppenheimer cannot safely return to Indonesia after the films' release.
• Nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar in 2016.

• "This is past."
• "I am not afraid to die. But I am afraid to live."
• "How can you sleep at night?"
• "They are politicians now."
• "I forgive."