True/False Film Festival

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True/False Film Fest
LocationColumbia, Missouri, United States
Hosted byThe Ragtag Film Society
Festival dateMarch 2 - 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.truefalse.org

True/False Film Fest is an annual documentary film festival that takes place in Columbia, Missouri. The Fest occurs on the first weekend in March (sometimes beginning in late February), with films being shown from Thursday evening to Sunday night. Films are screened at multiple locations around downtown Columbia, including Ragtag Cinema, Jesse Hall, Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, The Picturehouse, The Blue Note, The Globe, Rhynsburger Theater and the Forrest Theater in the Tiger Hotel. It offers one award each year, the True Vision Award.

True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema are programs of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the Ragtag Film Society. Ragtag Film Society seeks to champion independent film and media art and to serve film communities both locally and globally.

History

True/False was started by Paul Sturtz and David Wilson (who also founded the Ragtag Cinema) in February 2004.[1] In 2006, it won the Riverfront Times best film festival.[2] In 2008, the film fest lost 1,200 seats due to the renovation work taking place at the Missouri Theatre. To adjust for the loss, the fest expanded beyond its usual boundaries in order to take advantage of additional screens at Macklanburg Cinema, Windsor Cinema, and The Den on the campus of Stephens College. After the completion of its restoration, the historic Missouri Theatre was once again a featured venue for the 2009 edition of the fest.[3] The True/False Film Fest and Stephens College amicably ended their partnership after the 2011 fest, and Stephens College continued to host the annual Citizen Jane Film Festival through its demise in 2018.[4]

The 2021 edition of the festival was moved to outdoor venues in nearby Stephens Lake Park due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] The event made its return to downtown Columbia setting 2022.

Growth

The first True/False Film Festival in 2004 sold 4,200 tickets and the fest has since experienced rapid growth, increasing attendance by 25% or more in all but two years through its first decade.[6] Since then, the festival has increased attendance each year with the exception of 2014, which saw a 3% decrease amid a winter snowstorm.[6][7] The latest event in 2017 saw another record high in ticket sales, nearly 3,000 more than 2016.[8][9]

Over the years, the festival has expanded its presentation of other arts, including music and decorative art.[10][11] The event kicks off with a parade, the "March March," and ends with "Buskers Last Stand," in which many of the invited musicians come together for a closing performance. It encourages additional attendee involvement through participatory events like the "True Life 5K run,"[12] and the "Gimme Truth!" game show. The festival has risen from its meager origins to earn praise from both the Chicago Tribune[13] and Los Angeles Times.[14]

In 2019, the festival received thousands of submissions and sold over 54,000 tickets, bringing thousands of people to mid-Missouri from around the world. The festival is sponsored by almost every downtown store, restaurant and bar, and has multiple educational events such as Camp True/False and BOATS for both local & national high schools, year-long film programs, and more.

Education

Media Literacy Initiative

In early 2016, Columbia Public Schools, Ragtag Film Society, and the Columbia Public Schools Foundation announced a new, landmark multi-year partnership that brings together film, the CPS curriculum, and teacher training. The Media Literacy initiative is a year-round program that supports teacher efforts to incorporate more film and multimedia into their classrooms.

The program champions the belief that as students catapult into a world of ever-changing media, distribution platforms, and news outlets, the skills to be thoughtful, critical consumers of media must grow. Students deserve the tools to think consciously about the ways their world is presented to them and the ways they present their world. The primary goals are to increase the presence of film in core classrooms, help teachers and students learn to read film as text, and to cultivate and enhance critical thinking skills as teachers and students practice analyzing new media.

Camp True/False

Camp True/False brings high school students with varying interests insider access to the fest for a weekend of exciting films, music, art, conversations and workshops with a diverse crew of exceptional guests and local hosts. Camp True/False convenes before the Fest to discuss relevant issues, share research and plot their course. Participating students get a chance to meet the founders of the festival and meet with directors of the films showing at the festival in a private, personal manner. The camp is completely free for the students, who are selected through an application process in November. All Columbia Public Schools participate, as well as 10 out-of-town schools (4 of those, out-of-state). In 2019, the camp included around 80 high schoolers, including 30 local students and 50 students from nearby and national areas. Students from Saint Louis, Jefferson City, North Carolina, New Mexico, and more attended the 4 day camp.

DIY Day

On the Friday morning of the Fest, 10th graders from across all four Columbia public high schools take buses to a True/False venue where their nonfiction cinema & art experience begins! The students watch buskers and a festival film (listed below, by year), and students are encouraged to participate in a Q&A with the filmmaker. Afterward, 200 self-selected students attend interactive artist workshops and join in the anyone-can-join March March parade.

Educational Screening Films

The Educational Screenings are a special screening for local high school sophomores as a field trip to watch one film from the festival for free.

2023: Let the Little Light Shine, dir. Kevin Shaw

2022: Step, dir. Amanda Lipitz

2021: Undefeated, dir. Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin

2020: The Order of Myths, dir. Margaret Brown

2019: Amazing Grace, guest Dr. King

2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, dir. Morgan Neville

2017: I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck

2016: The Bad Kids, dir. Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe

2015: What Happened Miss Simone?, dir. Liz Garbus

2014: Particle Fever, dir. Mark Levinson

2013: Crash Reel dir. Lucy Walker

Films

2017

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 2017 Steve James 2017 88 min Feature
All Good Things 2017 Chloe Domont 2017 26 min Short The New Family
Antonio, Dashing Antonio 2017 Ana Maria Gomez 2017 42 min Short Edith + Eddie + Antonio
Balloonfest 2017 Nathan Truesdell 2017 6 min Short The World Laughs With You
Best of Luck with the Wall 2017 Josh Begley 2017 7 min Short Making Good Neighbors
Brief History of Princess X 2017 Gabriel Abrantes 7 min Short
Brimstone & Glory 2017 Viktor Jakovleski 2017 67 min Feature
Casting JonBenet 2017 Kitty Green 2017 80 min Feature
The Challenge 2017 Yuri Ancarani 2016 75 min Feature
Commodity City 2017 Jessica Kingdon 2016 10 min Short
Communion 2017 Anna Zamecka 2016 77 min Feature
Deer Squad: The Movie 2017 Pipus Larsen, Kenneth Gug, & Scott J. Ross 2017 5 min Short
Describe What You Heard 2017 Joe Callander & Jason Tippet 2017 3 min Short
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? 2017 Travis Wilkerson 2017 90 min Feature
Dina 2017 Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini 2017 102 min Feature
Distant Constellation 2017 Shevaun Mizrahi 2017 80 min Feature
The Diver 2017 Esteban Arrangoiz 2015 16 min Short
Donkeyote 2017 Chico Pereira 2017 86 min Feature
Edith+Eddie 2017 Laura Checkoway 2017 30 min Short
Fares 2017 Thora Lorentzen 2016 21 min Short
Fish Story 2017 Charlie Lyne 2017 12 min Short
The Force 2017 Peter Nicks 2017 93 min Feature
The Graduation 2017 Claire Simon 2016 120 min Feature
The Grown-Ups 2017 Maite Alberdi 2016 83 min Feature
Gulîstan, Land of Roses 2017 Zaynê Akyol 2016 84 min Feature
Happy Happy Baby 2017 Jan Soldat 2017 22 min Short
The Hollow Coin 2017 Frank Heath 2016 13 min Short
HyperNormalisation 2017 Adam Curtis 2016 187 min Feature
I Am Not Your Negro 2017 Raoul Peck 2016 93 min Feature
If Only There Were Peace 2017 Carmine Grimaldi & Deniz Tortum 2017 30 min Short
Koropa 2017 Laura Henno 2016 19 min Short
Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 2017 Florent Vassault 2017 84 min Feature
Long Strange Trip 2017 Amir Bar-Lev 2017 259 min Feature
LoveTrue 2017 Alma Har'el 2016 82 min Feature
Manifesto 2017 Julian Rosefeldt 2017 90 min Feature
Mimi 2017 Claire Simon 2003 105 min Feature True Vision
Miss Kiet's Children 2017 Petra Lataster-Czisch & Peter Lataster 2016 114 min Feature
My Daughter Nora 2017 Jasna Krajinovic 2016 16 min Short
No Man's Land 2017 David Byars 2017 84 min Feature
one of the roughs, a kosmos 2017 Carmine Grimaldi 2016 21 min Short
Polonaise 2017 Agnieszka Elbanowska 2016 16 min Short
Project X 2017 Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke 2016 10 min Short
Quest 2017 Jonathan Olshefski 2017 105 min Feature
The Rabbit Hunt 2017 Patrick Bresnan 2017 12 min Short
Railway Sleepers 2017 Sompot Chidgasornpongse 2016 102 min Feature
Rat Film 2017 Theo Anthony 2016 87 min Feature
Récréations 2017 Claire Simon 1992 54 min Feature True Vision
The Road Movie 2017 Dmitrii Kalashnikov 2016 72 min Feature
Safari 2017 Ulrich Seidl 2016 90 min Feature
Servicing Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family, Subpart A4-2.1-02, Property Inspection Vendor Management and Oversight (11/12/2014) 2017 Carmine Grimaldi 2016 13 min Short
Step 2017 Amanda Lipitz 2017 83 min Feature
Still Tomorrow 2017 FAN Jian 2016 88 min Feature
Stranger in Paradise 2017 Guido Hendrikx 2016 77 min Feature
Strong Island 2017 Yance Ford 2017 107 min Feature
Venus 2017 Lea Glob & Mette Carla Albrechtsen 2016 80 min Feature
Whose Streets? 2017 Sabaah Folayan 2016 104 min Feature

2018

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
Adriana's Pact 2018 Lissette Orozco 2017 96 min Feature
América 2018 Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside 2018 75 min Feature
American Animals 2018 Bart Layton 2018 116 min Feature
António e Catarina 2018 Cristina Haneș 2017 40 min Feature
Artemio 2018 Sandra Luz López Barroso 2017 48 min Feature
The Atomic Soldiers 2018 Morgan Knibbe 2018 23 min Short
Baby Brother 2018 Kamau Bilal 2018 14 min Short
Bisbee '17 2018 Robert Greene 2018 118 min Feature
Black Mother 2018 Khalik Allah 2018 77 min Feature
La Bouche 2018 Camilo Restrepo 2017 19 min Short
Caniba 2018 Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017 97 min Feature
Combat Obscura 2018 Miles Lagoze 2018 67 min Feature
Community Patrol 2018 Andrew James 2018 13 min Short
Concussion Protocol 2018 Josh Begley 2018 6 min Short
Crime + Punishment 2018 Stephen Maing 2018 112 min Feature
Dessert-Disaster 2018 Alison Nguyen 2017 2 min Short
Disintegration 93-96 2018 Miko Revereza 2017 6 min Short
Duelo 2018 Alejandro Alonso 2017 12 min Short
Durango 2018 Matt Sukkar 2017 14 min Short
The Family 2018 Rok Biček 2017 106 min Feature
Flight of a Bullet 2018 Beata Bubenec 2017 81 min Feature
La Flor de la Vida 2018 Adriana Loeff & Claudia Abend 2017 86 min Feature
Gabriel and the Mountain 2018 Fellipe Barbosa 2017 131 min Feature
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 2018 Sophie Fiennes 2017 115 min Feature
Graven Image 2018 Sierra Pettengill 2017 11 min Short
Hale County This Morning, This Evening 2018 RaMell Ross 2018 76 min Feature
John 746 2018 Ana Vijdea 2017 34 min Short
Kinshasa Makambo 2018 Dieudo Hamadi 2018 75 min Feature
Las Nubes 2018 Juan Pablo González 2018 21 min Short
Liminals 2018 Jeremy Shaw 2017 31 min Short
Love Means Zero 2018 Jason Kohn 2018 89 min Feature
Lovers of the Night 2018 Anna Frances Ewert 2017 57 min Feature
Makala 2018 Emmanuel Gras 2017 96 min Feature
The Making and Unmaking of the Earth 2018 Jessica Bardsley 2018 17 min Short
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. 2018 Steve Loveridge 2018 96 min Feature
Mini Miss 2018 Rachel Daisy Ellis 2018 16 min Short
Mon Amour, Mon Ami 2018 Adriano Valerio 2017 16 min Short
National Diploma 2018 Dieudo Hamadi 2014 92 min Feature True Vision Award Repertory Series
The Next Guardian 2018 Dorottya Zurbó & Arun Bhattarai 2017 74 min Feature
Handsworth Songs 2018 John Akomfrah 1986 61 min Feature Neither/Nor
Twilight City 2018 Reece Auguiste 1989 53 min Feature Neither/Nor
Testament 2018 John Akomfrah 1988 79 min Feature Neither/Nor
Who Needs a Heart? 2018 John Akomfrah 1991 78 min Feature Neither/Nor
Of Fathers and Sons 2018 Talal Derki 2017 98 min Feature
Our New President 2018 Maxim Pozdorovkin 2018 78 min Feature
Palenque 2018 Sebastián Pinzón Silva 2017 25 min Short
Personal Truth 2018 Charlie Lyne 2017 18 min Short
The Price of Everything 2018 Nathaniel Kahn 2018 98 min Feature
Playing Men 2018 Matjaž Ivanišin 2017 61 min Feature
Primas 2018 Laura Bari 2017 100 min Feature True Life Fund
Pumpkin Movie 2018 Sophy Romvari 2017 10 min Short
Pure Difference 2018 Byron Peters 2017 12 min Short
The Rider 2018 Chloé Zhao 2017 105 min Feature
Self-Portrait: Birth in 47 km 2018 ZHANG Mengqi 2016 101 min Feature
SHAKEDOWN 2018 Leilah Weinraub 2018 69 min Feature
Shirkers 2018 Sandi Tan 2018 96 min Feature
Taming the Horse 2018 GU Tao 2017 129 min Feature
The Task 2018 Leigh Ledare 2017 120 min Feature
They Just Come and Go 2018 Boris Poljak 2017 20 min Short
The Trader 2018 Tamta Gabrichidze 2017 22 min Short
Three Identical Strangers 2018 Tim Wardle 2018 96 min Feature
Voices of the Sea 2018 Kim Hopkins 2018 99 min Feature
The Water Slide 2018 Nathan Truesdell 2018 10 min Short
Westwood 2018 Lorna Tucker 2018 83 min Feature
Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2018 Morgan Neville 2018 94 min Feature

2019

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
Amazing Grace 2019 Sydney Pollack 2018 87 min Feature
American Factory 2019 Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert 2019 115 min Feature
Apollo 11 2019 Todd Douglas Miller 2019 93 min Feature
Atman 2019 Pirjo Honkasalo 1997 76 min Feature Neither/Nor
Black 14 2019 Darius Clark Monroe 2018 15 min Short
Caballerango 2019 Juan Pablo González 2018 60 min Feature
Celebration 2019 Olivier Meyrou 2018 73 min Feature
The Changing Same 2019 Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster 2018 21 min Short
Chez Jolie Coiffure 2019 Rosine Mbakam 2018 70 min Feature
Chinese Portrait 2019 WANG Xiaoshuai 2018 79 min Feature
Cold Case Hammarskjöld 2019 Mads Brügger 2019 123 min Feature
The Commons 2019 Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky 2019 71 min Feature
Crannog 2018 Isa Rao 2018 15 min Short
Dark Suns 2019 Julien Élie 2018 151 min Feature
The Edge of Democracy 2019 Petra Costa 2019 120 min Feature
Djo 2019 Laura Henno 2018 12 min Short
Dramatic and Mild 2019 Nastia Korkia 2018 6 min Short
Due 2019 Riccardo Giacconi 2017 17 min Short
every dog has its day 2019 Alison Nguyen 2019 6 min Short
Fainting Spells 2019 Sky Hopinka 2018 11 min Short
Finding Frances 2019 Nathan Fielder 2017 84 min Feature
The Game 2019 Marine de Contes 2018 53 min Feature
Ghosts of Sugar Land 2019 Bassam Tariq 2019 21 min Short
Goodbye Thelma 2019 Jessica Bardsley 2019 14 min Short
The Grand Bizarre 2019 Jodie Mack 2018 61 min Feature
The Harvesters 2019 Derek Howard 2018 6 min Short
Home, Sweet Home 2019 ISE Shinichi 2018 110 min Feature
The Hottest August 2019 Brett Story 2019 92 min Feature
I Signed the Petition 2019 Mahdi Fleifel 2018 10 min Short
Island of the Hungry Ghosts 2019 Gabrielle Brady 2018 98 min Feature
Knock Down the House 2019 Rachel Lears 2019 85 min Feature
Landless 2019 Camila Freitas 2019 110 min Feature
Lasting Marks 2019 Charlie Lyne 2018 14 min Short
Let It Burn 2019 Maíra Bühler 2019 82 min Feature
The Lost Head and the Bird 2019 Sohrab Hura 2018 10 min Short
The Magic Life of V 2019 Tonislav Hristov 2019 85 min Feature
The Men Behind the Wall 2019 Inés Moldavsky 2018 28 min Short
Midnight in Paris 2019 Roni Moore & James Blagden 2019 75 min Feature
Midnight Traveler 2019 Hassan Fazili 2019 87 min Feature
Mike Wallace is Here 2019 Avi Belkin 2019 86 min Feature
Mysterion 2019 Pirjo Honkasalo 1991 94 min Feature Neither/Nor
Mr. SOUL! 2019 Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard 2018 115 min Feature
The Naked Room 2019 Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda 2013 70 min Feature
No data plan 2019 Miko Revereza 2019 70 min Feature
‘Now something is slowly changing’ 2019 mint film office 2018 105 min Feature
One Child Nation 2019 Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang 2019 89 min Feature
Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) 2019 Carlos Reygadas 2018 173 min Feature
Over the Rainbow 2019 Jeffrey Peixoto 2019 71 min Feature
Reason 2019 Anand Patwardhan 2018 235 min Feature
Segunda Vez 2019 Dora Garcia 2018 94 min Feature
The Tightrope 2019 Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda 2009 80 min Feature
Treasure Island 2019 Guillaume Brac 2018 97 min Feature
Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary 2019 Ben Berman 2019 91 min Feature
Up the Mountain 2019 Zhang Yang 2018 126 min Feature
Vesuvius at Home 2019 Christin Turner 2019 14 min Short
Vever (for Barbara) 2019 Deborah Stratman 2018 12 min Short
Walled/Unwalled 2019 Lawrence Abu Hamdan 2018 20 min Short
A Wild Stream 2019 Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda 2018 72 min Feature True Vision

2020

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
45365 2020 Bill & Turner Ross 2009 94 min Feature
A Machine to Live In 2020 Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke 2020 87 min Feature
A Song About Love 2020 Rikki Wright 2019 14 min Short
A Supa Special Wakaliwood Event for All True/False Commandos 2020 IGG Nabwana 2020 61 min Feature
Aswang 2020 Alyx Ayn Arumpac 2019 85 min Feature
Aurora 2020 Everlane Moraes 2018 16 min Short
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets 2020 Bill & Turner Ross 2020 98 min Feature True Vision
Boys State 2020 Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss 2020 109 min Feature
Catskin 2020 Ina Luchsperger 2019 58 min Feature
City So Real 2020 Steve James 2020 240 min Feature
Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1) 2020 Mitch McCabe 2019 15 min Short
Collective 2020 Alexander Nanau 2019 109 min Feature
Crestone 2020 Marnie Ellen Hertzler 2020 73 min Feature
Crip Camp 2020 James LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham 2019 102 min Feature
Dadli 2020 Shabier Kirchner 2018 15 min Short
Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020 Kirsten Johnson 2020 89 min Feature
Distancing 2020 Miko Revereza 2020 10 min Short
Dope is Death 2020 Mia Donovan 2020 78 min Feature
Down a Dark Stairwell 2020 Ursula Liang 2020 83 min Feature
Faith 2020 Valentina Pedicini 2019 93 min Feature
Feels Good Man 2020 Arthur Jones 2020 95 min Feature
Good Ended Happily 2020 Basir Mahmood 2019 13 min Short
Hampton 2020 Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena Harold 2019 8 min Short
How to Disappear 2020 Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf 2020 21 min Short
IWOW I Walk on Water 2020 Khalik Allah 2020 197 min Feature
JESA 2020 Kyungwon Song 2019 6 min Short
Lost Three Make One Found 2020 Atsushi Kuwayama 2019 27 min Short
Love It/Leave It 2020 Tom Palazzolo 1973 15 min Short
Lovemobil 2020 Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss 2019 106 min Feature
małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore 2020 Sky Hopinka 2020 81 min Feature
Mayor 2020 David Osit 2020 87 min Feature
Mucho Mucho Amor 2020 Cristina Constantini & Kareem Tabsch 2020 96 min Feature
Nofinofy 2020 Michaël Andrianaly 2020 73 min Feature
Partial Differential Equation 2020 Kevin Jerome Everson 2020 8 min Short
Pier Kids 2020 Elegance Bratton 2019 84 min Feature
Recklessly Eyeballing 2020 Christopher Harris 2004 14 min Short
Ridge 2020 John Skoog 2019 70 min Feature
San Vittore 2020 Yuri Ancarani 2019 12 min Short
Secret Screening Short 2020 2019 24 min Short
See You Next Time 2020 Crystal Kayiza 2020 6 min Short
Seven Years in May 2020 Affonso Uchoa 2019 42 min Feature
Shortcuts 2020 Daniela Delgado Viteri 2019 18 min Short
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 2020 Riccardo Giacconi, Paolo Pennuti, Mirko Fabbri 2019 12 min Short
So Late So Soon 2020 Daniel Hymanson 2020 70 min Feature
Some Kind of Heaven 2020 Lance Oppenheim 2020 81 min Feature
Specialised Technique 2020 Onyeka Igwe 2019 7 min Short
Spit on the Broom 2020 Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich 2019 11 min Short
Sunless Shadows 2020 Mehrdad Oskouei 2019 74 min Feature
Talking About Trees 2020 Suhaib Gasmelbari 2019 93 min Feature
Tchoupitoulas 2020 Bill & Turner Ross 2012 82 min Feature
That Cloud Never Left 2020 Yashaswini Raghunandan 2019 66 min Feature
The Faculties 2020 Eloísa Solaas 2019 77 min Feature
The Giverny Document 2020 Ja'Tovia Gary 2019 42 min Feature
The Metamorphosis of Birds 2020 Catarina Vasconcelos 2020 101 min Feature
The Mole Agent 2020 Maite Alberdi 2020 90 min Feature
The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape 2020 Alison O'Daniel 2019 18 min Short
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay 2020 Yen-Chao Lin 2019 11 min Short
The Viewing Booth 2020 Ra’anan Alexandrowicz 2019 70 min Feature
This is an Address 2020 Sasha Wortzel 2019 17 min Short
Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another 2020 Jessica Sarah Rinland 2019 65 min Feature
Time 2020 Garrett Bradley 2020 85 min Feature
To the North (Part 2) 2020 Kelman Duran 2016 23 min Short
Unskinned 2020 Inês Gil 2019 76 min Feature
Up at Night 2020 Nelson Makengo 2019 21 min Short
Welcome to Chechnya 2020 David France 2020 107 min Feature
what remains/geriye kalanlar 2020 belit sağ 2019 7 min Short
When two or three 2020 Carmine Grimaldi 2019 20 min Short

2021

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
.srt 2021 Africanus Okokon 2020 9 min Short
All Light, Everywhere 2021 Theo Anthony 2021 106 min Feature
Brontosaurus 2021 Jack Dunphy 2020 8 min Short
Club Quarantine 2021 Aurora Brachman 2020 7 min Short
Das Spiel 2021 Roman Hodel 2020 17 min Short
Delphine's Prayers 2021 Rosine Mbakam 2020 90 min Feature
Department of Injustice 2021 Travis Wood & Chloe Gbai 2020 6 min Short
Dirty Feathers 2021 Carlos Alfonso Corral 2021 75 min Feature
Faya Dayi 2021 Jessica Beshir 2021 120 min Feature
Fire Season 2021 Quinn Else 2020 7 min Short
From the Wild Sea 2021 Robin Petré 2021 78 min Feature
Halpate 2021 Adam Piron & Adam Khalil 2020 14 min Short
Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse 2021 Pablo Weber 2020 22 min Short
Homeroom 2021 Peter Nicks 2021 90 min Feature
Inside The Red Brick Wall 2021 HK Documentary Filmmakers 2021 88 min Feature
Lemongrass Girl 2021 Pom Bunsermvicha 2021 17 min Short
Maat Means Land 2021 Fox Maxy 2020 30 min Short
My Own Landscape 2021 Antoine Chapon 2020 18 min Short
No Kings 2021 Emilia Mello 2020 85 min Feature
O arrais do mar 2021 Elisa Celda 2020 18 min Short
Petit Samedi 2021 Paloma Sermon-Dai 2020 75 min Feature
Red Taxi 2021 Anonymous 2020 14 min Short
Rock Bottom Riser 2021 Fern Silva 2021 70 min Feature
Sabaya 2021 Hogir Hirori 2021 93 min Feature
Songs That Flood the River 2021 German Adolfo Arango 2021 75 min Feature
Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth 2021 Aylin Gökmen 2020 14 min Short
Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revoluation Could Not be Televised) 2021 Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson 2021 117 min Feature
The Bodies 2021 Eloy Domínguez Serén 2020 11 min Short
The Cut 2021 Zac Manuel 2020 7 min Short
The Flooded House 2021 Lucía Malandro & Daniel D. Saucedo 2020 14 min Short
The Golden Buttons 2021 Alex Evstigneev 2020 20 min Short
The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World 2021 Claire Simon 2020 110 min Feature
The I and S of Lives 2021 Kevin Jerome Everson 2021 7 min Short
The Rain Will Never Stop 2021 Alina Gorlova 2020 103 min Feature
The Rifleman 2021 Sierra Pettengill 2020 18 min Short
The Truth About Hastings 2021 Dan Schneidkraut 2021 10 min Short
The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman 2021 Rosine Mbakam 2018 76 min Feature
Users 2021 Natalia Almada 2021 81 min Feature
VO 2021 Nicolas Gourault 2020 17 min Short
Why Don't You Eat More? 2021 George Du; Sinclair Neff 2020 4 min Short

2022

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
2nd Chance 2022 Ramin Bahrani 2022 89 min Feature
Abisal 2022 Alejandro Alonso 2021 30 min Short
Açucena 2022 Isaac Donato 2021 71 min Feature
After Sherman 2022 Jon-Sesrie Goff 2021 88 min Feature
Brotherhood 2022 Francesco Montagner 2021 97 min Feature
Caballerango 2022 Juan Pablo González 2018 60 min Feature
Canoa: A Shameful Memory 2022 Felipe Cazals 1976 115 min Feature
Children of the Mist 2022 HÀ Lệ Diễm 2021 90 min Feature
Days and Nights of Demetra K 2022 Eva Stefani 2021 72 min Feature
Death 2022 Nadia Hallgren 2021 9 min Short
Dos Estaciones 2022 Juan Pablo González 2022 99 min Feature
Eventually 2022 Rikke Nørgaard 2021 56 min Feature
Expo Film (this film is my memory) 2022 Penny McCann 2020 9 min Short
Factory to the Workers 2022 Srđan Kovačević 2021 106 min Feature
Fire of Love 2022 Sara Dosa 2021 93 min Feature
GES-2 2022 Nastia Korkia 2021 77 min Feature
Gods of Mexico 2022 Helmut Dosantos 2022 97 min Feature
Golden Jubilee 2022 Suneil Sanzgiri 2021 19 min Short
Greetings from Myanmar 2022 Sunniva Sundby & Andreas J. Riiser 2020 6 min Short
H6 2022 Yé Yé 2021 113 min Feature
I Didn’t See You There 2022 Reid Davenport 2022 77 min Feature
Ikebana 2022 Rita Ferrando 2021 13 min Short
In Flow of Words 2022 Eliane Esther Bots 2021 22 min Short
It Runs in the Family 2022 Victoria Linares Villegas 2022 83 min Feature
Kalsubai 2022 Yudhajit Basu 2021 20 min Short
Kicking the Clouds 2022 Sky Hopinka 2021 16 min Short
Las Nubes 2022 Juan Pablo González 2017 21 min Short
Last Days of August 2022 Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck & Robert Machoian 2022 13 min Short
Let the Little Light Shine 2022 Kevin Shaw 2022 86 min Feature
Liberation Radio 2022 Esther Johnson 2021 14 min Short
Miguel's War 2022 Eliane Raheb 2021 128 min Feature
Mija 2022 Isabel Castro 2022 88 min Feature
Mr Landsbergis 2022 Sergei Loznitsa 2021 146 min Feature
Nazarbazi 2022 Maryam Tafakory 2022 19 min Short
No U-Turn 2022 Ike Nnaebue 2022 92 min Feature
Nuisance Bear 2022 Jack Weisman & Gabriela Osio Vanden 2021 14 min Short
Octopus 2022 Karim Kassem 2020 64 min Feature
Our Ark 2022 Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton 2021 12 min Short
Quitting Time 2022 Cameron Yates 2022 8 min Short
Riotsville, U.S.A. 2022 Sierra Pettengill 2022 91 min Feature
Sirens 2022 Rita Baghdadi 2022 78 min Feature
The Balcony Movie 2022 Paweł Łoziński 2021 100 min Feature
The Delights 2022 Eduardo Crespo 2021 65 min Feature
The Rightful 2022 Ana Galizia 2022 21 min Short
The Still Side 2022 Miko Revereza & Carolina Fusilier 2021 70 min Feature
The Territory 2022 Alex Pritz 2022 85 min Feature
Turn Your Body to the Sun 2022 Aliona Van der Horst 2021 93 min Feature
Vedette 2022 Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard 2021 99 min Feature
We Met in Virtual Reality 2022 Joe Hunting 2021 91 min Feature
Where are we Headed 2022 Ruslan Fedotow 2021 63 min Feature
You Can't Stop Spirit 2022 Vashni Korin 2021 16 min Short
You've Never Been Completely Honest 2022 Joey Izzo 2021 11 min Short
Zigipouse 2022 Alan Sahin 2021 10 min Short

2023

Title Fest Year Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program
Alpha Kings 2023 Enrique Pedraza Botero & Faye Tsakas 2022 14 min Short
Anhell69 2023 Theo Montoya 2022 72 min Feature
Anima 2023 Manuel Mateo Gomez 2022 19 min Short
Aqueronte 2023 Manuel Muñoz Rivas 2023 26 min Short
Aralkum 2023 Mila Zhluktenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi 2022 14 min Short
Art Talent Show 2023 Adéla Komrzý & Tomáš Bojar 2022 102 min Feature
Away 2023 Ruslan Fedotow 2022 28 min Short
Bad Press 2023 Rebecca Landsberry-Baker & Joe Peeler 2022 98 min Feature True Life Fund
Before It Breaks 2023 Swetha Regunathan 2022 7 min Short
Bobi Wine: The People's President 2023 Christopher Sharp & Moses Bwayo 2022 114 min Feature
Broca's Aphasia 2023 SU Ming-Yen 2022 85 min Feature
Caballo De Espuma 2023 Juanjo Rueda 2022 20 min Short
Dogwatch 2023 Gregoris Rentis 2022 78 min Feature
Echo 2023 Ross McClean 2023 13 min Short
The Empty Sphere 2023 Stephanie Roland 2022 19 min Short
Example #35 2023 Lucía Malandro 2022 6 min Short
The Feeling of Being Close To You 2023 Ash Goh Hua 2022 12 min Short
Feet in Water, Head on Fire 2023 Terra Long 2023 90 min Feature
Forms of Forgetting 2023 Burak Çevik 2023 70 min Feature
Gigi La Legge 2023 Alessandro Comodin 2022 102 min Feature
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project 2023 Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster 2022 102 min Feature
Going Varsity in Mariachi 2023 Alejandra Vasquez & Sam Osborn 2022 104 min Feature
Guapo'y 2023 Sofia Paoli Thorne 2022 72 min Feature
How to Have an American Baby 2023 Leslie Tai 2023 117 min Feature
Hummingbirds 2023 Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras 2023 78 min Feature
I Was Born In 1988 2023 Yasaman Baghban 2022 9 min Short
It Runs in the Family 2023 Victoria Linares Villegas 2022 84 min Feature True Vision Award
Jill, Uncredited 2023 Anthony Ing 2022 18 min Short
Joonam 2023 Sierra Urich 2022 103 min Feature
Language Unknown 2022 Janelle VanderKelen 2022 6 min Short
La Bonga 2023 Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes 2022 77 min Feature
Last Things 2023 Deborah Stratman 2023 50 min Feature
Love At First Byte 2023 Felizitas & Theresa Hoffmann 2022 6 min Short
Mafifa 2023 Daniela Muñoz Barroso 2021 77 min Feature
Man on Earth 2023 Amiel Courtin-Wilson 2022 97 min Feature
Margie Soudek's Salt and Pepper Shakers 2023 Meredith Moore 2022 12 min Short
Milisuthando 2023 Milisuthando Bongela 2023 128 min Feature
A Moment of Innocence 2023 Mohsen Makhmalbaf 1996 78 min Feature
Moomin 2023 Zach Dorn 2022 5 min Short
Moosa Lane 2023 Anita Mathal Hopland 2022 87 min Feature
Moune Ô 2023 Maxime Jean-Baptiste 2022 17 min Short
Natalia 2023 Elizabeth Mirzaei 2022 76 min Feature
No Elements 2023 Barbara Vojtašáková 2022 25 min Short
Our Body 2023 Claire Simon 2022 168 min Feature
Paradise 2023 Alexander Abaturov 2022 89 min Feature
R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity 2023 Mohanad Yaqubi 2022 71 min Feature
Ramona 2023 Victoria Linares Villegas 2023 83 min Feature
Red Herring 2023 Kit Vincent 2023 94 min Feature
The Stroll 2023 Kristen Lovell & Zackary Drucker 2023 85 min Feature
The Taste of Mango 2023 Chloe Abrahams 2023 75 min Feature
Tavuri 2023 Dervis Zaim 2022 93 min Feature
Tension Envelopes 2023 Robert Greene 2023 9 min Short
That Day on the River 2023 Lei Lei 2023 39 min Short
Three Women 2023 Maksym Melnyk 2022 85 min Feature
Tierra de Leche 2023 Milton Guillén & Fiona Hall 2022 12 min Short
Time Bomb Y2K 2023 Brian Becker & Marley McDonald 2023 80 min Feature
Visão do Paraíso (Vision of Paradise) 2023 Leonardo Pirondi 2022 16 min Short
While the Night Falls 2023 Amir Aether Valen 2023 18 min Short
Xarassi Xanne (Crossing Voices) 2023 Raphaël Grisey & Bouba Touré 2022 122 min Feature
You Are Not Here 2023 Nastia Korkia 2022 16 min Short

True/False includes films by local and international filmmakers, with thousands of films being sent in each year for consideration.

True Vision Award

The True/False Film Fest offers a single award. The True Vision Award is given annually to the filmmaker, or filmmakers, whose work shows a dedication to the creative advancement of the art of nonfiction filmmaking. Each winner is presented with an original bronze sculpture, created by nationally known Columbia artist Larry Young.

YearRecipient(s)Film*
2004Joe Berlinger and Bruce SinofskyMetallica: Some Kind of Monster
2005Stephen MarshallThis Revolution
2006Kirby DickChain Camera
2007Brett MorgenNimrod Nation
2008Alex GibneyGonzo and Taxi to the Dark Side
2009Kim LonginottoRough Aunties
2010Laura PoitrasThe Oath
2011James MarshProject Nim
2012Victor Kossakovsky¡Vivan las Antipodas!
2013Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna ParavelLeviathan
2014Amir Bar-LevHappy Valley
2015Adam CurtisBitter Lake
2016Mehrdad OskoueiStarless Dreams
2017Claire SimonThe Graduation
2018Dieudo HamadiKinshasa Makambo
2019Nuria Ibáñez CastañedaA Wild Stream
2020Bill & Turner RossBloody Nose, Empty Pockets
2021Rosine MbakamChez Jolie Coiffure
2022Juan Pablo GonzálezDos Estaciones
2023Victoria Linares VillegasIt Runs in the Family

*The newest film presented by the chosen winner in each year's festival.

True Life Fund

Since 2007, the True/False Film Fest has also featured the True Life Fund, a fundraising program which goes to demonstrate that documentaries can create change by offering tangible assistance to the real-life subjects of a new non-fiction film each year. The fund further acknowledges that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories provided by people of often limited means. The True Life Fund is presented by the Crossing (a Missouri church group) and is supported by the Bertha Foundation.

YearFilmDirector(s)Funds RaisedSupported Cause
2007We Are TogetherPaul Taylor$8,500Purchase school supplies for the Children of Agape singing choir of South Africa.[15]
2008Very Young GirlsDavid Schisgall$9,000Provide services to girls recovering from the trauma of sexual exploitation, through GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Service).
2009Burma VJAnders Østergaard$9,000Purchase equipment for underground journalists in Burma.
2010Enemies of the PeopleThet Sambath and Rob Lemkin$10,000Help efforts to interview former members of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.[16]
2011The InterruptersSteve James$15,000Help Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra of the anti-violence group CeaseFire.
2012BullyLee Hirsch$30,000Help the five families featured in the film, which were victimized by bullying.[16]
2013RestrepoSebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington$36,760Support RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) and The Milton Margai School for the Blind.[16]
2014Private ViolenceCynthia Hill$23,000Support the work of Deanna Walters, Kit Gruelle, Stacy Cox and Naomi Jean Kilpatrick.
2015The Look of SilenceJoshua Oppenheimer$35,000Support Adi Rukun's efforts to open an optometry shop in Indonesia.
2016SonitaRokhsareh Ghaemmaghami$43,000Provide assistance for Sonita, an Afghani musician and undocumented Iranian immigrant.
2017QuestJonathan Olshefski$34,750Support Christopher and Christine'a Rainey's in-home studio for North Philadelphia neighborhood recording artists.
2018 Primas Laura Bari $25,000 Support Rocío and Aldana's future artistic and collegiate endeavors.[17]
2019 Midnight Traveler Hassan Fazili [To Be Announced] Help alleviate legal expenses, and support them in setting up their new home
2020 Welcome to Chechnya David France [To Be Announced]
2021 Sabaya Hogir Hirori [To Be Announced]
2022 The Territory Alex Pritz [To Be Announced]
2023 Bad Press Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler [To Be Announced]

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