Official T/F 2013 Schedule

The Eastside Tavern hosts a rockin’ kickoff show featuring Rip Rap, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, and Cloud Dog. Doors at 9pm. Show at 10pm. $5 cover.

Our traditional fancypants gala at the Missouri Theatre.

Actress and director Sarah Polley dredges up family secrets in this exceptionally playful and inventive film.  

From dusty huts to seedy motels to the halls of Congress, dogged investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill tracks down the murders of an Afghan family.

Mix together artists and scientists on a wooden schooner sailing to remote Greenland and the results are alternately absurd and sublime.

Sex sells, but who’s buying?

59 residents eke out a living in a tiny village on the northwest shore of Greenland.  But at least they have Facebook.  

A cadre of separatists square off against an unsympathetic city.

With hand-held immediacy, this film captures the political tumult of modern Russia - the consolidation of power by Vladimir Putin, the youthful energy of the dissenters and the frustrations of those caught in between.  

Gurchiani puts out a casting call, and locates mostly young people endeavoring to find their place in a post-Soviet world.

This jaw-dropping, humanistic work is about Neil Platt, a Scottish architect who’s been granted a vision of his own demise.  

In 1980, before geek was chic, a clutch of brainiac programmers converge in order to change the world.

An extraordinary piece of personal and political filmmaking, shot by a Brit in and around New York in the late ‘60s, The Fall eyes America with a psychedelic kaleidoscope.

Cut off from the rest of the world, retirees in Chile spice up their daily life any way they can, including the launch of a nostalgic radio station.

Caught in a larger game, an eloquent pirate leader and a troubled ship captain become a surprisingly close odd couple.  

Blue Fugue

James Miska & Lake Mary, Ruth Acuff, and Jack Grelle & the Johnson Family will kick off your evening with a bang, a beer and some really sweet songwriting. Doors at 6:00pm. Show at 7:00pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

Cafe Berlin

Flux Bikes, Paul Rucker, Syna So Pro, and Dark Blue Dark Green will excite the crowd with their experimental music. Doors at 9pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

Actress and director Sarah Polley dredges up family secrets in this exceptionally playful and inventive film.  

Sample tasty appetizers from Columbia's finest restaurants in the Missouri Theatre lobby.

A thriller that reexamines the hunt for Bin Laden and casts the women who worked as CIA information specialists as its unsung heroes.  

Brotherly love and family loyalty provide the grace notes in the rise and fall of one of the greatest snowboarders in the world.

From dusty huts to seedy motels to the halls of Congress, dogged investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill tracks down the murders of an Afghan family.

Oscar-nominated film that recreates the 1988 Chilean referendum on ending Pinochet’s rule.  Stars Gael Garcia Bernal. 

Caught in a larger game, an eloquent pirate leader and a troubled ship captain become a surprisingly close odd couple.  

The true story of the world’s most famous art agitators.  

Mucca Pazza returns to truly celebrate the festival anniversary with a late night show so big that it is free to all of our passholders.  Doors at 11:15pm. Show at 11:45pm. Free to all passholders. $10 general admission.

A British farmer and his 12-year-old cow, Ida, will steal your heart as you watch their tender relationship redefine the phrase ‘man’s best friend.’

A sweet, sentimental portrait of a group of aging, yet still spry, artists

A triumph of political art, journalism and confrontational cinema, set in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.  

Whether hunting, crushing cars, roping cows, flying helicopters, or probing internal organs, men are plain obsessive.

Sex sells, but who’s buying?

Five golden shorts take us from Finland to Eritrea and beyond in hot pursuit of the elusive. 

A work of cinematic art that finds its inspiration in the white-on-white vistas of northern Michigan and the neon explosion of snowmobile racing.  

Humanizing without lionizing, this film features intimate access to some of our nation's most controversial figures – the four doctors in the United States who perform late-term abortions.

A mystery unfolds on the US/Mexico border when a body turns up identified only by a tattoo that says “Dayani Cristal.”  

As a mysterious alternate-reality game spills onto the streets of San Francisco; its participants struggle to discern the real world from the construct.

A triumph of political art, journalism and confrontational cinema, set in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.  

Join co-director Bill Ross and the Court 13 contingent (Dan Janvey, Michael Gottwald and Josh Penn) for a peek  behind the scenes at Beasts of the Southern Wild and other great films. 

The evolutionary model is featured in this stunning, four-film collection.

A groundbreaking parody of cinema-vérité which presciently foresaw the Youtube personal monologues of today.

Gurchiani puts out a casting call, and locates mostly young people endeavoring to find their place in a post-Soviet world.

Through eye-popping footage and thorough journalism, we learn about the sordid underbelly of keeping orcas in captivity.

Ushio and Noriko are aging bohemian artists whose dedication, creativity and fierce tenacity make for a unique and enduring love story.

Zionist pioneers, disenfranchised Arabs, and many others frequent a swimming hole in Israel, providing a unique portal into a complex country.

A gorgeous, intimate and tender portrait of life in a Pakistani orphanage.

One man’s journey towards self-improvement takes him back to the turn of the 20th century.

Dramatically reconstructs a shocking narrative and attempts to solve the mystery at its core.

An elegant argument in favor of nuclear energy and a gauntlet thrown for environmentalists to reexamine their core beliefs.

A group of artists rebel against an oppressive regime.

Documentary filmmaking has evolved in the past decade, but mainstream film criticism appears to hold an old lens to its eye in describing contemporary non-fiction film. This often results in the best work being ignored or misunderstood. What can be done to create a new critical language?

Directors of narrative features are increasingly telling non-fiction stories. What lessons from the feature world do these directors bring into their documentaries? What can the world of narrative features teach nonfiction filmmakers?

Among the most challenging worlds to puncture is the military with its famously secretive layers. Embedded or not, journalists and filmmakers have to navigate the ironclad chain of command.

Join us at the Odd Fellows Lodge as eight filmmakers gather around a "campfire" to swap tales of the scene that got away

It’s opening day at the ice cream shop! Celebrate with a tasty scoop and some traditional American and Mexican folk tunes by Meeyoo and La Operación Jarocha.

What could be better than a Marching band parade on the first day of March? We always like to bring in this month like a lion and we invite one and all to join in, dress in costume, ride your bike, whatever you’d like. Free and open to the public.

Blue Fugue

Dubb Nubb, The Onions and Anonymous Choir will fill up the Fugue with harmonies to last the whole weekend. Doors at 6:00pm. Show at 7:00pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

Cafe Berlin

The Flood Brothers, Yva Las Vegass, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, and The Hooten Hallers promise a raw and raucous energetic evening. Doors at 9pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

Mojo’s hosts a special two band showcase featuring a Hawk and a Hacksaw and David Wax Museum. Doors at 8:30pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders, $6 for other passholders, $10 general admission.

The now-legendary Friday night party held at a downtown nightclub, featuring DJ MNDR and DJ Rat & Underdog

Oscar-nominated film that recreates the 1988 Chilean referendum on ending Pinochet’s rule.  Stars Gael Garcia Bernal. 

Brotherly love and family loyalty provide the grace notes in the rise and fall of one of the greatest snowboarders in the world.

A thriller that reexamines the hunt for Bin Laden and casts the women who worked as CIA information specialists as its unsung heroes.  

This year’s True Life Fund film tells the story of Tim Hetherington (Restrepo), a combat photographer extraordinaire, who bore witness to the personal stories too often lost in the fog of war.

From dusty huts to seedy motels to the halls of Congress, dogged investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill tracks down the murders of an Afghan family.

Through eye-popping footage and thorough journalism, we learn about the sordid underbelly of keeping orcas in captivity.

This Oscar-nominated film provides a startling inside look at Israel’s super-secretive Shin Bet intelligence service.

59 residents eke out a living in a tiny village on the northwest shore of Greenland.  But at least they have Facebook.  

Lifts the curtains on the world of backup singers and reveals the wonderful voices you’ve been hearing your whole life, but never noticed.  

Ushio and Noriko are aging bohemian artists whose dedication, creativity and fierce tenacity make for a unique and enduring love story.

Boastful Indonesian thugs with a genocidal history recreate their past deeds in this landmark film championed by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.

A mystery unfolds on the US/Mexico border when a body turns up identified only by a tattoo that says “Dayani Cristal.”  

Humanizing without lionizing, this film features intimate access to some of our nation's most controversial figures – the four doctors in the United States who perform late-term abortions.

Sex sells, but who’s buying?

See America's favorite documentary game show, as you decide whether films are true or false.

An elegant argument in favor of nuclear energy and a gauntlet thrown for environmentalists to reexamine their core beliefs.

Cut off from the rest of the world, retirees in Chile spice up their daily life any way they can, including the launch of a nostalgic radio station.

The evolutionary model is featured in this stunning, four-film collection.

Five golden shorts take us from Finland to Eritrea and beyond in hot pursuit of the elusive. 

Zionist pioneers, disenfranchised Arabs, and many others frequent a swimming hole in Israel, providing a unique portal into a complex country.

Through eye-popping footage and thorough journalism, we learn about the sordid underbelly of keeping orcas in captivity.

Whether hunting, crushing cars, roping cows, flying helicopters, or probing internal organs, men are plain obsessive.

A triumph of political art, journalism and confrontational cinema, set in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.  

Jon Murray, co-creator of The Real World, talks about the rise of Reality TV and its relationship to nonfiction filmmaking. 

This True Vision Award honoree is operatic, immersive filmmaking that conveys, with full sensory overload, life on a commercial fishing boat.

A groundbreaking parody of cinema-vérité which presciently foresaw the Youtube personal monologues of today.

A group of artists rebel against an oppressive regime.

Dramatically reconstructs a shocking narrative and attempts to solve the mystery at its core.

One man’s journey towards self-improvement takes him back to the turn of the 20th century.

A group of artists rebel against an oppressive regime.

Whether hunting, crushing cars, roping cows, flying helicopters, or probing internal organs, men are plain obsessive.

Boastful Indonesian thugs with a genocidal history recreate their past deeds in this landmark film championed by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.

The true story of the world’s most famous art agitators.  

A sweet, sentimental portrait of a group of aging, yet still spry, artists

A work of cinematic art that finds its inspiration in the white-on-white vistas of northern Michigan and the neon explosion of snowmobile racing.  

A British farmer and his 12-year-old cow, Ida, will steal your heart as you watch their tender relationship redefine the phrase ‘man’s best friend.’

Gurchiani puts out a casting call, and locates mostly young people endeavoring to find their place in a post-Soviet world.

In 1980, before geek was chic, a clutch of brainiac programmers converge in order to change the world.

With hand-held immediacy, this film captures the political tumult of modern Russia - the consolidation of power by Vladimir Putin, the youthful energy of the dissenters and the frustrations of those caught in between.  

A gorgeous, intimate and tender portrait of life in a Pakistani orphanage.

This jaw-dropping, humanistic work is about Neil Platt, a Scottish architect who’s been granted a vision of his own demise.  

Mix together artists and scientists on a wooden schooner sailing to remote Greenland and the results are alternately absurd and sublime.

A cadre of separatists square off against an unsympathetic city.

Can long-form documentary find a home with an ADD Internet audience? How can documentary filmmakers take full advantage of direct interactivity with their audiences? Can good storytelling happen when the narrative controls are in the hand of the viewer? A wave of web-native documentaries are grappling with these questions, but this is clearly uncharted territory for most filmmakers.

With omnipotent leaders such as Putin and Lukashenko, Eastern Bloc countries both provide fertile material and make steep demands for documentarians.

The DIY ethic inspired the 10th edition of True/False, and is reflected around every corner of the festival. This panel traverses DIY film, music and art, complete with a field trip to a soon-to-be-demolished local DIY site.

A bright-and-early tradition at T/F, the True Life Run challenges all runners and walkers to start Saturday, March 2 with a mad dash through the streets of downtown Columbia. Registration required at the run or in advance online. 

Free-wheeling raconteur Speed Levitch, featured in the film "The Cruise," accompanied by aide-de-camp Gabriel Williams, gives us a free tour of Columbia that introduces us to a city we didn't know existed. Starts from the T/F Box Office.

Venture into Maude Vintage for a showcase of instrumental world music featuring Hema, Prahlad, and Nathaniel Braddock. Show at 2:00 pm Donations accepted.

Free-wheeling raconteur Speed Levitch, featured in the film "The Cruise," accompanied by aide-de-camp Gabriel Williams, gives us a free tour of Columbia that introduces us to a city we didn't know existed. Starts from the T/F Box Office.

PS:Gallery, on Walnut Street, hosts this year's banquet in honor of our visiting filmmakers, catered by Sycamore.

Blue Fugue

Lizzie Wright Super Space Ship, Cindy Woolf & Mark Bilyeu, and Les Trois Coups will create a world of delight in three dynamic sets.  Doors at 6:00pm. Show at 7:00pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

Cafe Berlin

Mountain Animation, Yes Ma’am, Toughcats, and Run On Sentence will strum, pluck, kick and whistle your night away. Doors at 9pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

Stomp out a day’s documentaries at Mojo’s. This show features Husk, Hott Lunch, and So Many Dynamos.  Doors at 8:30pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders, $6 for other passholders, $10 general admission.