Joshua Oppenheimer • Director
Press Conference
US director talks during the press conference after the European Film Awards ceremony
After winning the European Film Award 2013 for Best European Documentary, US director Joshua Oppenheimer explained to the press the motivations and moral questions behind the making of The Act of Killing [+see also:
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film profile]. The film, which depicts the 1965's Indonesian communist purge through the killers' reconstruction, is now on its way for an Academy Award.