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The Look of Silence: Confronting the Past

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

Uncovering a Brutal Past

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers’ family members about what happened in the past – much to Adi’s disappointment.

Seeking Justice Through Silence

Adi, a young optometrist in today’s modern Indonesia, follows the gruesome events that took place on October 1965 in Aceh province, when commoners were labelled as “Communists” after the coup against the government and the total elimination of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Under the Iron Bridge of River Snake, numerous Death Squads of the infamous Komando Aksi butchered more than a million people in less than a year, under the remote supervision of the army that made the mass exterminations look like spontaneous acts of hate–and among the many that were purged–Adi’s older brother, Ramli, was one of them. Armed with courage and the desire to reveal the real story behind the ethnic cleansing, Adi follows the tracks of his brother’s executioners, only to discover a devastatingly harsh truth: The perpetrators who destroyed myriads of people still remain untouched and rule across the country, having washed their hands of the problem. Even so, life must go on.—Nick Riganas

Experience the emotional journey of Adi as he seeks justice and uncovers the harsh realities of Indonesia’s dark past in “The Look of Silence.” Watch the full movie on fmovies now.