The Spirits of Tasi Tolu is a documentary investigating the impact of a controversial tourism development in Tasi Tolu, Timor-Leste. Tasi Tolu (Three Lakes) is allegedly the site of a series of extrajudicial executions and clandestine burials of independence activists by Indonesian forces between 1975 and 1999: the period of Indonesia’s occupation of Timor-Leste. Steeped in traditional culture the local Timorese believe the area is inhabited by the spirits of those executed. Currently a Singaporean developer has Government approval to build a hotel and golf resort complex in Tasi Tolu. While this development will bring much needed investment and employment opportunities it will displace thousands of residents who depend on the lakes, and the land around it, for their livelihood. With concern about the claims of human remains in Tasi Tolu, the Timorese Government commissioned an international forensic team to investigate the area prior to the commencement of the development. Within this framework the film presents the testimony of the people at stake and the landscape itself as part of a broader dialogue about memory, genocide, and place as focal points for overlapping and competing notions of community, identity, nationhood, and sustainable development in post-conflict countries.