With three military-themed features in competition, war in its many guises is on the forefront at this year's Venice Film Festival, opening August 27 and running through September 6. Starring Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, and January Jones, Good Kill by New Zealand director Andrew Niccol tells the story of an American family man who starts to question the ethics of his job as a drone pilot.
Texas-born helmer Joshua Oppenheimer is back with The Look of Silence, a documentary in which a family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
This year's documentary is the companion piece to The Act of Killing (2012), in which Oppenheimer challenged former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their atrocities in whichever cinematic genres they wished, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
Award-winning Japanese actor and director Shinya Tsukamoto, who has been dubbed Japan's David Lynch, returns to World War II and a platoon trapped on a Filipino island with no supplies, whose members resort to cannibalism.
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