Festival:
The 17th True/False Film Fest
Dates:
March 5-8
About:
Approximately 35 new and recent documentary and hybrid features make up the lineup of this well-loved Columbia MO event.
DOPE IS DEATH | Photo by Jack Manning/The New York Times
Among the films making their world premiere at the festival are: Ursula Liang’s
DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL, about the aftermath of a wrongful killing of an innocent black man by a Chinese American police officer; David Osit’s
MAYOR, a portrait of the mayor of Ramallah, Palestine; Mia Donovan’s
DOPE IS DEATH, the story of a pioneering acupuncture detoxification program led by the Black Panthers and the young Lords in 1970s South Bronx; Khalik Allah’s
IWOW: I WALK ON WATER, a diaristic portrait of the relationship between the photographer and a homeless, schizophrenic subject; Ina Luchsperger’s
CATSKIN, which profiles a strange family in the German countryside; Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s
CRESTONE, about an intentional desert community formed by SoundCloud rappers; and Daniel Hymanson’s
SO LATE SO SOON, which explores the artistic processes of a long-married couple.
THE FACULTIES
Other offerings include: Eloísa Solaas’
THE FACULTIES, which observes Argentine university students taking their oral examinations; Inês Gil’s
UNSKINNED, which explores a Portuguese tannery and a worker’s strange disappearance; Yashaswini Raghunandan’s
THAT CLOUD NEVER LEFT, about an Indian village that produces toys from old Bollywood film strips; Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke’s
A MACHINE TO LIVE IN, a sci-fi hybrid exploration of Brazil’s futuristic capital city of Brasilia; and Jessica Sarah Rinland’s
THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER, a meditative look at the restoration of a fossilized elephant tusk.
