• The Act Of Killing

    Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn | 2012 | Spine No. 13

    In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes.

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WINNER – Audience Award, Berlinale International Film Festival, Panorama

"I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade...it is unprecedented in the history of cinema." – Werner Herzog

In this chilling and inventive documentary, executive produced by Errol Morris (The Fog Of War) and Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), the filmmakers examine a country where death squad leaders are celebrated as heroes, challenging them to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at the 2012 Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals and winning an Audience Award at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, The Act of Killing is an unprecedented film that, according to The Los Angeles Times, "could well change how you view the documentary form."

OFFICIAL SELECTION- Toronto International Film Festival, 2012, Telluride International Film Festival 2012, SXSW 2013, New Directors/New Films 2013, True/False Film Festival, 2012

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