Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing

The world gets flipped upside down in Joshua Oppenheimer’s disturbing and often surreal look at gangsters who eagerly recreate mass murders committed 45 years earlier in Indonesia in The Act of Killing. Oppenheimer reveals that the military dictatorship that has remained in force since 1965 unleashed paramilitary groups and gangsters to eliminate a million "communists" – that included ethnic Chinese, intellectuals, anyone who questioned the junta. These killers remain lionized as they happily, if not bizarrely, re-stage their mass killings as 007 or noir thrillers, complete with costumes, fake blood and real fire. Executive produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.

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