TIFF ’12: First look at “The Act of Killing”

August 29, 2012 by Adam Benzine

An extended, provocative trailer has been released for Joshua Oppenheimer’s anticipated TIFF doc The Act of Killing, which challenges self-professed mass murderers to recreate and act out their war-time atrocities.

The film, which is exec produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8.

TIFF doc programmer Thom Powers told realscreen earlier this week that the film was among a batch of titles he expected to secure deals during this year’s fest.

The Act of Killing‘s backers include Franco-German broadcaster ZDF Arte, Dutch net VPRO, Denmark’s DRTV, and Scandi broadcasters SVT, NRK and YLE, as well as the Ford Foundation and the Danish Film Institute.

The full trailer is below:

Tags: Errol Morris, Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, TIFF, Werner Herzog

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