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Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

Joshua Oppenheimer directed The Act of Killing, in which perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide restage their own killings as genre film scenes, and The Look of Silence. Both were nominated for Academy Awards.

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Joshua Oppenheimer

The Act of Killing (2012)

Aging death squad leaders reenact their killings as movie scenes. The Act of Killing is Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 Danish-British-Norwegian documentary depicting former Indonesian death squad leaders who participated in the 1965-66 anti-communist purges that killed approximately five hundred thousand to…