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After the European Film Awards, The Act of Killing is running for the Oscar

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- Joshua Oppenheimer's depiction of the Indonesian genocide after the 1965 military coup has set its next goal, after being shortlisted for the Academy Award

After the European Film Awards, The Act of Killing is running for the Oscar

The Danish production of US director Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing [+see also:
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, which was named Best European Documentary 2013 by the European Film Academy (news), will next be running for the Academy Award, after it was earlier in the week (December 4) shortlisted among the 15 international documentaries considered for a nomination.

According to the Danish Film Institute, Denmark has never been so strongly represented in the running for Oscar nominations, after Anders WaltersHelium (M&M Productions), and Michelle and Uri Kranot’sHollow Land (Marie Bro/Dansk Tegnefilm), have been listed for live action short and animated short noms, respectively. Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt [+see also:
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is Denmark’s candidate for the trophy as Best Foreign-Language Feature.

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After awarded the top prize for Best Documentary at last year’s CPH:DOX, The Act of Killing – which was directed by Oppenheimer with Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian director – has been on a world-wide prize-winning festival tour, collecting ao the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary in New York earlier this month (December 2).

Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen, for Denmark’s Final Cut for Real, with among others German director-producer Werner Herzog (who said that during at least a decade, he had not seen a film “as powerful, surreal, and frightening”), The Act of Killing deals with the killing of more than one million Indonesians deemed as Communists after the 1965 military coup, as re-enacted by former death squad leaders.

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