Winner of Best Documentary at the British Academy Film Awards and the European Film Awards, this powerful and provocative film is a must-watch in revealing through re-enacting the horrors of mass killings perpetrated in Indonesia in the 1960s.

In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leader Anwar Congo and his friends to dramatise their role in genocide. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres—gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. This is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

Co-curated by Luqman Hakim Bin Abdul Rahman (Year 4, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)