They won dozens of awards, they were nominated for Oscars and they offer two highly original reconstructions of historical moments. Exile Room welcomes the new screening season with two of the best and most unconventional documentaries of the past few years!
A documentary unlike anything you have ever seen before, an outrageous, skin-crawling and almost surreal nightmare about the paranoia that rules an entire society that’s built on the blood of innocent people, “The Act of Killing” challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
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How do you keep the memory of your dearly departed alive when there’s no testimony they ever existed? Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
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