The Act of Killing
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Posted May 28, 2013 11:20 PM by Webmaster
Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, has released a new trailer for Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film The Act of Killing. Earlier this year, The Act of Killing won the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The Act of Killing will open in select theaters across the United States on Friday, July 19.
Official synopsis: In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatize their role in genocide. 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.
The Act of Killing will open in select theaters across the United States on Friday, July 19.
Official synopsis: In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatize their role in genocide. 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.