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The Look of Silence
Why this pick
A companion piece with the same unnerving Indonesian reckoning, but its quiet confrontations make institutional denial and personal grief feel even more intimate.
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MOVIE2012 1h 55m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.
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