***A talk with Joshua Oppenheimer will follow the screening of the 21st of March.****

In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge death-squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be movie stars. The result is an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

Winner of BAFTA Film Award for Best Documentary (2014) and Berlin International Film Festival Panorama Audience Award and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (2013).

Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 159mins (Director’s cut)
Language: Indonesian/ English
Subtitles: English/ Arabic 

www.theactofkilling.com

JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER
Joshua Oppenheimer was born in USA and has worked for over a decade with militias, death squads and their victims to explore the relationship between political violence and the public imagination. Educated at Harvard and Central St Martins, London, his award-winning films include ‘The Globalization Tapes’ (2003), ‘The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase’ (1998), ‘These Places We’ve Learned to Call Home’ (1996).