The Magic Life of V
A young woman, called Veera, haunted by her childhood traumas is trying to become more independent through live-role-playing.
The Look of Silence
Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers.
The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in power: he confronts the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. This unprecedented film initiates and bears witness to the collapse of fifty years of silence.
INFO
Movie title
The Look of Silence
Original title
The Look of Silence
Production year
2014
Director
Joshua Oppenheimer
Crew
Producer
Signe Byrge Sørensen
Co-producers
Kaarle Aho, Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit
Director of Cinematography
Lars Skree
Editor
Niels Pagh Andersen
Production company
Final Cut for Real Ap
Awards
GRAND JURY PRIZE
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
CRITICS PRIZE (FIPRESCI)
BEST FILM OF VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST FILM
FESTIVAL D’ANGERS 2015
PRIZE OF THE DANISH ARTS COUNCIL
2014
AUDIENCE AWARD
SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST 2015
TRUE LIFE AWARD
TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL 2015
GRAND PRIZE (DOX AWARD)
CPH:DOX 2014
AUNG SAN SUU KYI AWARD
BURMA HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN DIGNITY FILM FESTIVAL 2015
AUDIENCE AWARD
DOCUMENTA MADRID 2015
AUDIENCE AWARD
DOCS BARCELONA 2015
ONLINE CRITICS PRIZE (MOUSE D’ORO)
BEST FILM OF VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD
DOCS BARCELONA 2015
GRAND PRIX
FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA VALENCIENNES 2015
HUMAN RIGHTS NIGHTS AWARD
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
PRIX DE LA CRITIQUE
FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA VALENCIENNES 2015
DANISH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY (BODIL PRIZE)
2015
DANISH ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY (ROBERT PRIZE)
2015
PEACE FILM PRIZE
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2015
BEST WORLD DOCUMENTARY (CINEPHILE PRIZE)
BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
DON QUIXOTE PRIZE
TROMSØ INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015
BEST FILM – CINE DE DERECHOS HUMANOS
URUGUAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015
AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST FILM, FESTIVAL FAVORITES
SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2015
BEST DOCUMENTARY
CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2015
DRAGON AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY
GOTHENBURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015
EUROPEAN CRITICS PRIZE (FEDEORA)
BEST EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN FILM OF VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
PRIX ÉTUDIANTS
FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA VALENCIENNES 2015
BEST DOCUMENTARY
SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015
BEST FILM
PRAGUE ONE WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2015
AUDIENCE AWARD
MOVIES THAT MATTER FESTIVAL 2015
BEST DOCUMENTARY
DENVER FILM FESTIVAL 2014
BEST DOCUMENTARY
VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL 2015
BEST DIRECTOR (BALTIC GAZE)
VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD
DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY – WARSAW 2015
WILD DREAMER AWARD
SUBVERSIVE FILM FESTIVAL 2015
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
NORDICDOCS 2015
BEST DIRECTOR (DOCUMENTARY)
RIVER RUN FILM FESTIVAL 2015
Festivals
71st Venice Int- Film festival, Italy 2014
Telluride Film Festival, USA 2014
Toronto Film Festival, Canada 2014
Helsinki Int. Film Festival, Finland 2014
Zurich Film Festival, Germany 2014
New York Film Festival, USA 2014
Busan Int. Film Festival, Korea 2014
La Roche-sur-Yon FF, France 2014
Abu Dhabi Middle East Int. FF, United Arab Emirates 2014
CPH: Dox Copehagen, Denmark 2014
IDFA Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2014
Goa Int Film Festival, India 2014
Tehran, Cinema Verite DFF, Iran 2014
Tbilisi Int FF, Georgia 2014
Riga Baltic Sea Forum of Docs, Latvia 2014
Tromso Int Film Festival, Norway 2015
Göteborg Int FF, Sweden 2015
Berlinale, Germany 2015
Oslo Human Rights/Wrongs, Norway 2015
Geneve, Forum on Human Rights, Switzerland 2015
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg 2015
Tempo, Doc. Festival, Sweden 2015
Sofia Int FF, Bulgaria 2015
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece 2015
Vilnius Int FF , Lithuania 2105
Kiev docudays UA HR FF, Ukraine 2015
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