The Look of Silence

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The Look of Silence
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen
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  • Seri Banang
  • Mana Tahan
Cinematography Lars Skree
Edited by Niels Pagh Andersen
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  • 28 August 2014 (2014-08-28) (Venice)
Running time
 103 minutes[1]
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  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Indonesia
  • Israel
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Language Indonesian
Box office $153,516[2]

The Look of Silence (Indonesian: Senyap, "Silence") is a 2014 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer about the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The film is a companion piece[3] to Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary The Act of Killing. It was executive produced by Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Andre Singer.[4] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 88th Academy Awards.[5]

Overview

A middle-aged Indonesian man, whose brother was brutally murdered in the 1965 purge of "communists," confronts the men who carried out the killings. Out of concern for his safety, the man is not fully identified in the film and is credited only as "anonymous," as are many of the film's crew positions. Some shots consist of the man watching (what seems to be) extra footage from The Act of Killing, which includes video of the men who killed his brother. He visits some of the killers and their collaborators—including his uncle—under the pretense of an eye exam. Although none of the killers express any remorse, the daughter of one of them is clearly shaken when she hears, apparently for the first time, the details of the killings.

Release

The film was screened in the official competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival,[6][7] where it won the Grand Jury Prize, the International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI), the Italian online critics award (Mouse d'Oro), the European Film Critics Award (FEDEORA), as well as the Human Rights Nights Award.[8] Since then, it has gone on to win multiple awards, including Best World Documentary (Cinephile Prize) at the Busan International Film Festival,[9] the Grand Prize (DOX Award) at CPH:DOX,[10] the prize for Best Documentary at the Starz Denver Film Festival,[11] a Danish Arts Council Award for outstanding achievement in filmmaking,[12] and the Best Film Award at the One World human rights documentary film festival.[13]

Additionally, the film has screened at the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival, IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam), and MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival).

On 10 November 2014, 2,000 people came to the official and public premiere of the film in Jakarta. On 10 December 2014, International Human Rights Day, there were 480 public screenings of the film across Indonesia. The screenings of the film in Indonesia has been sponsored by the National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia and the Jakarta Arts Council.

It was selected for screening in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015.[14]

In February 2016, Oppenheimer, along with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, screened the film for members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and their House counterparts, officials from the Department of State, and members of the White House National Security Council staff. Oppenheimer hoped the Oscar buzz the film was generating would pressure the US government to formally acknowledge its collusion in the killings.[15][16][17]

Reception

Critical response

The Look of Silence received critical acclaim. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 96% rating, an average score of 8.8/10, based on 104 reviews, the critic's consensus on there stating that "The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking – yet just as terribly compelling – companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing.[18] On Metacritic, the film has a 92 out of 100 rating based on 29 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[19] On 14 January 2016, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[5]

Awards and nominations

As of March 2016, The Look of Silencehas won 70 international awards, including the following:

Award Date of Ceremony Category Recipients and Nominees Result
Academy Awards[5] 28 February 2016 Best Documentary Feature Nominated
Angers Film Festival[20] 25 January 2015 Audience Award Won
Austin Film Critics Association[21] 29 December 2015 The Best Documentary Won
Berlin International Film Festival[22] 16 February 2015 Peace Film Prize Won
Bodil Awards[23] 28 February 2015 Best Documentary Won
Boston Society of Film Critics[24] 6 December 2015 Best Foreign Language Film Won
Busan International Film Festival[25] 11 October 2014 Busan Cinephile Award Won
Calgary Underground Film Festival 2015[26] 23 April 2015 Jury Awards Best Documentary Feature Won
Camerimage 2015[27] 21 November 2015 Golden Frog—Grand Prix Lars Skree Won
Cinema Eye Honors[28] 13 January 2016 Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking Won
Outstanding Achievement in Direction Won
Outstanding Achievement in Production Won
Cologne International Film Festival[29] 1 October 2014 Phoenix Prize Won
CPH:DOX 2014[30] 14 November 2014 DOX:AWARD Won
Danish Arts Council [31] 10 December 2014 Prize of the Danish Arts Council 2014 Won
Danish Film Academy/Robert Award[32] 1 February 2015 Best Long Documentary Won
Denver Film Festival 2014[33] 23 November 2014 Best Documentary Won
Docs Against Gravity - Warsaw 2015[34] 16 May 2015 Amnesty International Award Won
DocsBarcelona 2015[35] 31 May 2015 Audience Award Won
Amnesty International Award Won
Documenta Madrid 2015[36] 8 May 2015 Audience Award Won
European Film Awards[37] 12 December 2015 Best Documentary Nominated
Festival Cinematográfico del Uruguay[38] 12 April 2015 Human Right Best Feature Won
Festival de Cine de Derechos Humanos Buenos Aires[39] 25 June 2015 Best Film Won
Festival de Cinéma Valenciennes 2015[40] 26 March 2015 Grand Prix du Jury Won
Prix de la Critique Won
Prix Étudiants Won
Gotham Awards 2015[41] 30 November 2015 Best Documentary Won
Göteborg International Film Festival 2015[42] 31 January 2015 Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary Won
Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2015 2015[43] 19 June 2015 Aung San Suu Kyi Award Won
IDA Awards 2015[44] 5 December 2015 Best Feature Award Won
London Film Critics' Circle[45] 17 January 2016 Film of the Year Nominated
Documentary of the Year Nominated
Foreign Language Film of the Year Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 6 December 2015 Best Documentary Runner-up
MakeDox 2015[46] 26 June 2015 Best Film Won
Movies That Matter Film Festival[47] 28 March 2015 Vara Audience Award Won
Nordic/Docs 2015[48] 30 May 2015 Special Jury Award Won
Nordisk Panorama – Nordic Short & Doc Film Festival[49] 22 September 2015 Audience Award Won
Nuremberg Human Rights Film Festival[50] 30 September 2015 Prize of Honor Won
Online Film Critics Society Award[51] 13 December 2015 The Best Documentary Won
Prague One World Festival[52] 11 March 2015 The Best Film Award Won
The Ridenhour Prizes[53] 22 March 2016 The Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize Won
RiverRun International Film Festival[54] 26 April 2015 Best Director (Documentary) Joshua Oppenheimer Won
Satellite Awards 21 February 2016 Best Documentary Film Won
Sheffield International Documentary Festival[55] 15 June 2015 Audience Award Won
Sofia International Film Festival[56] 15 March 2015 Best Documentary Won
South by Southwest Film Festival[57] 21 March 2015 Audience Awards Festival Favorites Won
Spirit Awards[58] 27 February 2016 Best Documentary Won
Subversive Film Festival 2015[59] 12 May 2015 Wild Dreamer Award Won
Tromsø International Film Festival[60] 17 January 2015 FICC Award/Don Quixote Prize Won
True/False Film Festival[61] 4 May 2015 True Life Award Adi Rukun Won
Venice International Film Festival[62] 6 September 2014 Grand Jury Prize Won
FIPRESCI Award Won
Mouse d'Oro Award Won
Fedeora Award Won
Human Rights Nights Award Won
Victoria Film Festival[63] 15 May 2015 Best Documentary Won
Vilnius International Film Festival[64] 2 April 2015 Best Director (Baltic Gaze) Joshua Oppenheimer Won

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