Screening of The act of killing – director’s cut by Joshua Oppenheimer (Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, 2012, 159’).
Executive producer: Errol Morris and Werner Herzog.
When the Indonesian government was overthrown in 1965, small-time gangster Anwar Congo and his friends went from selling movie tickets on the black market to leading death squads in the mass murder of over a million opponents of the new military dictatorship and has been celebrated by the government as a national hero. When approached to make a film about their role in the genocide, Anwar and his friends eagerly comply—but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony. Instead, they re-create their real-life killings as they dance their way through musical sequences, and gallop across prairies as Western cowboys. Through this filmmaking process, the moral reality of the act of killing begins to haunt Anwar and his friends with varying degrees of acknowledgment, justification and denial.
Organised in association with PerSo - Perugia Social Film Festival