This is a film that I haven't seen yet but it's at the Seattle Film Festival. It's about the Genocide in East Timor. It's also more fundamentally about humanity, and what it means to kill.

I know some people say why does this matter, it happened awhile ago, in a place far far away. It matters, because the United States supported it with weapons. The weapons we provided were used to kill hundreds of thousands of landless peasants.

"I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade...it is unprecedented in the history of cinema." -Werner Herzog (who also helped complete the film)

http://drafthousefilms.com/film/the-act-of-killing

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