Although none of the killers expresses any remorse, the daughter of one of them is clearly shaken when she hears, apparently for the first time, the details of the killings.

[citation needed] It was selected for screening in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015.

[14] In February 2016, Oppenheimer, along with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, screened the film for members of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and their House counterparts, officials from the Department of State, and members of the White House National Security Council staff.

Oppenheimer hoped the Oscar buzz the film was generating would pressure the US government to formally acknowledge its collusion in the killings.

The website's critical consensus states, "The Look of Silence delivers a less shocking – yet just as terribly compelling – companion piece to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing".