The film focuses on the perpetrators of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 in the present day. In 2016, it was named the 14th greatest film released since 2000 by a poll of critics published by the BBC. The film was ranked 19th on a list of the best documentaries ever made in a 2015 poll by the British Film Institute. Ī companion piece to the film, The Look of Silence, was released in 2014. Its presidential spokesman on foreign affairs, Teuku Faizasyah, claimed that the film is misleading with respect to its portrayal of Indonesia. The Indonesian government had responded negatively to the film. After a screening for US Congress members, Oppenheimer demanded that the US acknowledge its role in the killings. In accepting the award, Oppenheimer asserted that the United States and the United Kingdom have "collective responsibility" for "participating in and ignoring" the crimes, which was omitted from the video BAFTA posted online. It also won best documentary at the 67th BAFTA awards. The Act of Killing won the 2013 European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.
It is a Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) project of the University of Westminster. The executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Joram ten Brink, and Andre Singer. It is a Danish-British-Norwegian co-production, presented by Final Cut for Real in Denmark and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen. The film is directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and co-directed by Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian. The Act of Killing ( Indonesian: Jagal, meaning "Butcher") is a 2012 documentary film about individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66.
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