2014 Schedule

Mar 01 Saturday

	Jesse Auditorium	Missouri Theatre	The Vimeo Theater at The Blue Note	Forrest Theater	Big Ragtag	Little Ragtag	The Globe	The Picturehouse	Odd Fellows Lodge	Other
9am	9:30am E-Team Film 88 min 9:30 - 10:58am E-Team When crimes against humanity flare up, members of the E-Team serve as the world's first responders.									9:00am True Life Run Other 60 min 9 - 10am True Life Run A bright-and-early tradition at T/F, the True Life Run challenges all runners and walkers to start Saturday, March 1 with a mad dash through the streets of downtown Columbia. Sponsored by Columbia Orthopedic Group. Proceeds benefit the 2014 True Life Fund recipients. Registration required at the run or in advance online.
10am		10:00am The Overnighters Film 100 min 10 - 11:40am The Overnighters Not all who flooded the North Dakota oil fields found a gusher: some of them landed in a shelter run by Pastor Jay Reinke, whose turbulent story matches theirs.	10:00am The Green Prince Film 99 min 10 - 11:39am NRT The Green Prince The unlikely, thrilling story of the son of a Hamas leader and his tenuous partnership with an Israeli intelligence agent.	10:00am The Joycean Society Film 67 min 10 - 11:07am NRT The Joycean Society A small, erudite cult meets weekly to decode the most notoriously impenetrable text in modern literature: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.	10:30am The Apple Film 106 min 10:30 - 12:16pm NRT The Apple A social worker comes to the rescue of twin sisters who have spent much of their eleven years locked behind bars in this 1998 debut from a then 17-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series.	10:00am Arthouse to Statehouse Conversation 75 min 10 - 11:15am NRT Arthouse to Statehouse Documentary filmmaking can be a purpose-driven act for filmmakers with multiple bottom lines - including social change. Increasingly, films come pre-built to raise awareness and effect change. But how can a nonfiction film with a less obvious agenda build an effective outreach plan and engage audiences in action? Emily Verellen of the Fledgling Fund takes on Rich Hill as a case study and invites crowd participation in strategizing how that film will find its audience, from the arthouse to the statehouse.	10:30am Secret Screening Amber Film 106 min 10:30 - 12:16pm NRT Secret Screening Amber This buddy comedy par excellence finds two men at the end of their tethers.	10:00am Forest of the Dancing Spirits Film 104 min 10 - 11:44am NRT Forest of the Dancing Spirits An intimate and personal account of a rainforest society perched on the precipice of modernity.	10:15am Beyond Pretty Pictures Conversation 75 min 10:15 - 11:30am Beyond Pretty Pictures What was previously off limits is now possible through affordable, lightweight equipment, and low-cost DIY hacking. Increasingly light-sensitive cameras liberate filmmakers to capture nighttime scenes; miniature, waterproof cameras are cheap; skeleton crews allow subjects to feel more comfortable revealing themselves. T/F alumni Omar Mullick quizzes Linda Västrik (Forest of the Dancing Spirits), Ewan McNicol (Uncertain), and Victor Kossakovsky (Demonstration) on how they harness technology to tell better stories.
11am										11:45am The Art Ramble Other 30 min 11:45 - 12:15pm The Art Ramble Gabriel Viles gives us a tour of True/False's many and wondrous art installations. Free and open to the public.
12pm	12:15pm Tim's Vermeer Film 80 min 12:15 - 1:35pm Tim's Vermeer Tim Jenison is a software geek who believes he’s unlocked the 350-year-old secret of how Old Masters created extraordinary paintings.	12:45pm The Unknown Known Film 105 min 12:45 - 2:30pm The Unknown Known Ten rounds of sparring between Errol Morris, our greatest living interviewer, and Donald Rumsfeld, a master of political obfuscation.	12:30pm Stand Clear of the Closing Doors Film 103 min 12:30 - 2:13pm NRT Stand Clear of the Closing Doors With Hurricane Sandy looming, an autistic teenager goes AWOL in the New York subways.	12:30pm Concerning Violence Film 85 min 12:30 - 1:55pm Concerning Violence Revolutionary writing from Frantz Fanon melds with extraordinary archival footage to reveal the legacy of Colonialism.		12:30pm Kith & Kin (shorts) Short 69 min 12:30 - 1:39pm NRT Kith & Kin (shorts) Family ties are untangled in these six shorts, climaxed by the stunning I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked.		12:30pm Uncertain (work-in-progress) Film 84 min 12:30 - 1:54pm NRT Uncertain (work-in-progress) Settle in to the sun-dappled Texas town of Uncertain where outlaws take refuge, wild boars maraud, and past lives can't be kept quiet.	12:00pm Place is the Space Conversation 75 min 12 - 1:15pm Place is the Space Nonfiction filmmakers locate vivid places and people whose stories jump off the screen - then they sift and winnow to find the soul of the place. True/False mascot Beadie Finzi chats with Tracy Droz Tragos (Rich Hill), Sherief Elkatsha (Cairo Drive), and Mark Levinson (Particle Fever) who reveal how they cast films where settings don’t act as backdrops but as stars in their own right.
1pm					1:00pm Particle Fever Film 99 min 1 - 2:39pm NRT Particle Fever The world's most savvy scientists guide us through the largest experiment in history, the Large Hadron Collider, which seeks to unlock the secrets of life itself.		1:00pm Killing Time Film 70 min 1 - 2:10pm NRT Killing Time Since 1982, the state of Texas has lethally injected 509 convicts on Death Row: this is the story of number 499.
2pm									2:30pm Africa is Not a Country Conversation 75 min 2:30 - 3:45pm Africa is Not a Country To a Western mind, Africa may appear as a slideshow of slums, safaris, refugees, and marathon runners. In a clutch of T/F 2014 films, though, outsider filmmakers avoid shopworn stereotypes to tell distinctive stories from a diverse continent. T/F ringleader Ingrid Kopp asks Tobias Janson (Concerning Violence), Rachel Boynton (Big Men), and Joe Callander (Life After Death) how they circumvented the pitfalls. Presented by Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at Mizzou.	2:00pm Sparky's Saturday Showcase Concert 120 min 2 - 4pm Sparky's Saturday Showcase Sure it's cold outside but what better way to bid winter adieu than a concert in an ice cream shop? Flux Bikes and Prahlad will fill the shop with delicious percussion and beautiful sounds. Hosted by Sparky's, our sweetest friends, who happen to make Columbia's finest homemade ice cream. Free and open to the public, donations accepted. 2:30pm The Art Ramble Other 30 min 2:30 - 3pm The Art Ramble Gabriel Viles gives us a tour of True/False's many and wondrous art installations. Free and open to the public.
3pm	3:00pm Private Violence Film 81 min 3 - 4:21pm NRT Private Violence 2014 True Life Fund recipient. This astonishing, powerful doc pulls back the curtain on domestic violence with gripping narratives guaranteed to challenge our apathy.	3:30pm The Notorious Mr. Bout Film 94 min 3:30 - 5:04pm The Notorious Mr. Bout With his video camera ever in hand, arms dealer Viktor Bout led a wild (and well-documented) high life.	3:00pm Secret Screening Amber Film 106 min 3 - 4:46pm Secret Screening Amber This buddy comedy par excellence finds two men at the end of their tethers.	3:00pm Rich Hill Film 91 min 3 - 4:31pm Rich Hill A tender, gorgeously lensed portrait of three small-town Missouri teenagers contending with major life obstacles.	3:30pm Manakamana Film 117 min 3:30 - 5:27pm NRT Manakamana The playfully stylized presentation of eleven different journeys to an ancient Hindu temple in Nepal.	3:00pm My Kid Could Paint That Film 82 min 3 - 4:22pm NRT My Kid Could Paint That Marla is a child artist who has sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of paintings. But is she the real deal?	3:30pm The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga Film 72 min 3:30 - 4:42pm NRT The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga This spellbinding film drinks deep from the mythology and history of Eastern Europe to explore the contentious relationship between man and nature.	3:00pm Big Men Film 99 min 3 - 4:39pm NRT Big Men An investigation into the multi-layered world of oil exploration off the coast of Africa, from Texas board rooms to ski-masked saboteurs.
4pm										4:00pm Filmmaker Fete Party 120 min 4 - 6pm Filmmaker Fete The fête is our annual banquet in honor of our visiting filmmakers. Hosted annually by our friends at PS:Gallery, featuring artful culinary delights, courtesy of Sycamore's chef Mike Odette, a James Beard Award finalist. The Champagne and wine flows courtesy of Golden Barrel Distributing. Ticket Required, open to Super and Silver Circle passholders.
5pm			5:30pm Secret Screening Burgundy Film 88 min 5:30 - 6:58pm NRT Secret Screening Burgundy A lone man challenges an institution, fueling debate that will undoubtedly spill off of the screen.	5:30pm Stop-Over (L'Escale) Film 100 min 5:30 - 7:10pm NRT Stop-Over (L'Escale) Greece was supposed to be a getaway for a crew of undocumented Iranian men, but it ends up providing only a state of limbo.		5:30pm Concerning Violence Film 85 min 5:30 - 6:55pm NRT Concerning Violence Revolutionary writing from Frantz Fanon melds with extraordinary archival footage to reveal the legacy of Colonialism.		5:30pm Approaching the Elephant Film 89 min 5:30 - 6:59pm Approaching the Elephant An enthralling, immersive look at the first year of a radical New Jersey school for young children.
6pm	6:00pm Happy Valley Film 100 min 6 - 7:40pm Happy Valley In 2011, a massive scandal rocked football-crazed Penn State. Can the town recover? A morally complex and emotionally powerful film from our 2014 True Vision honoree.	6:00pm Ukraine is Not a Brothel Film 78 min 6 - 7:18pm Ukraine is Not a Brothel Femen, Ukraine's topless feminist protesters create headlines wherever they go. But is there a darker truth behind the sharpie slogans?			6:30pm Kingdom, If I Can (shorts) Short 67 min 6:30 - 7:37pm NRT Kingdom, If I Can (shorts) Transcendence doesn't come easy, as shown in three international shorts: The Green Serpent, Mountain in Shadow and Sirs & Misters.		6:00pm Life After Death Film 75 min 6 - 7:15pm NRT Life After Death A hilarious, sharp-eyed portrait of Kwasa, a charismatic twenty-something Rwandan native, and his "family" of American philanthropists.		6:00pm Cairo Drive Film 77 min 6 - 7:17pm NRT Cairo Drive Delightfully captures the spirit of Egypt by trailing its residents as they navigate the city's chaotic streets.
7pm										7:00pm True/Folk Saturday Showcase Concert 150 min 7 - 9:30pm True/Folk Saturday Showcase Stepdaughter, Lone Piñon, and The Onions will sing, strum, and fiddle your hearts away. Doors at 6:00pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
8pm				8:00pm Vanishing Point (shorts) Short 72 min 8 - 9:12pm NRT Vanishing Point (shorts) In these three mysterious shorts, including "Morning Star," we go off like scent hounds on the trail of the disappeared.	8:30pm Close-Up Film 97 min 8:30 - 10:07pm NRT Close-Up In one of the greatest films of the ‘90s, an imposter says he’s director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and convinces a family to make him a houseguest. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series.	8:00pm Sacro GRA Film 93 min 8 - 9:33pm NRT Sacro GRA Surrounding Rome's tourist ghetto is a highway whose adjoining residents reveal the real story of modern Italy.	8:30pm A Thousand Suns (Mille Soleils) Film 69 min 8:30 - 9:39pm NRT A Thousand Suns (Mille Soleils) Forty years after starring in one of his country’s most famous films, a Senegalese cattle herder wanders Dakar and reflects on his legacy in this dreamy chimeric work. Plays with "Vegas."	8:00pm Secret Screening Orchid Film 96 min 8 - 9:36pm Secret Screening Orchid Civilization has its discontents, including this person who gave away everything they knew to start a new life.	8:30pm Dusty Stacks of Mom Film 51 min 8:30 - 9:21pm NRT Dusty Stacks of Mom Jodie Mack's mother ran a poster-and-postcard warehouse in the age of Bowie and Floyd; its demise now inspires a rock opera, which Mack will perform live.
9pm	9:00pm Jodorowsky's Dune Film 90 min 9 - 10:30pm Jodorowsky's Dune In the hippie era Alejandro Jodorowsky was a cinematic shaman on the rise, until he attempted to adapt the doomed, sci-fi epic Dune.	9:00pm Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart Film 102 min 9 - 10:42pm Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart A small-town murder in New Hampshire summons up a self-perpetuating media circus and now inspires this grand, enthralling work of nonfiction.	9:30pm Gimme Truth! Other 90 min 9:30 - 11pm NRT Gimme Truth! See America's favorite documentary game show, as you decide whether films are true or false. Emceed by the Johnny St. John, watch as local non-professional filmmakers attempt to fool three of our seasoned filmmaker guests, as they present their totally true or totally false one-minute doc. Tech support provided by CATV. Sponsored by Vimeo.							9:00pm Toast/False Saturday Showcase Concert 240 min 9 - 1am Toast/False Saturday Showcase Cindy Woolf & Mark Bilyeu, La Operación Jarocha, Toughcats, and Les Trois Coups will plant their roots for an eclectic evening of foot stompin' tunes from around the world. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission. 9:30pm Mojo's A Go Go Saturday Concert 210 min 9:30 - 1am Mojo's A Go Go Saturday SpaceIsThePlace, Née, and MNDR will bring the glitz and the glam to the dance floor through entrancing and emotive synth pop songs. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders, $6 for other passholders, $10 general admission.
10pm				10:30pm Miraculous Tales Film 69 min 10:30 - 11:39pm NRT Miraculous Tales A tour of folk medicine, faith healing and other comforts for the afflicted, led by the Irish farmer/raconteur Mickey McGuigan.	10:45pm Demonstration Film 75 min 10:45 - 12am NRT Demonstration 32 Spanish film students, led by 2012 True Vision honoree Victor Kossakovsky, craft a playful and poetic vision of protest.	10:30pm Demonstration Film 75 min 10:30 - 11:45pm NRT Demonstration 32 Spanish film students, led by 2012 True Vision honoree Victor Kossakovsky, craft a playful and poetic vision of protest.		10:30pm 20,000 Days on Earth Film 95 min 10:30 - 12:05am NRT 20,000 Days on Earth Singer-songwriter Nick Cave's life is unpacked in this wildly creative re-imagining of the music doc.
11pm
12am
1am

9:00am

True Life Run

Other

60 min

9 - 10am

True Life Run
A bright-and-early tradition at T/F, the True Life Run challenges all runners and walkers to start Saturday, March 1 with a mad dash through the streets of downtown Columbia. Sponsored by Columbia Orthopedic Group. Proceeds benefit the 2014 True Life Fund recipients. Registration required at the run or in advance online.

9:30am

Jesse Auditorium

E-Team

Film

88 min

9:30 - 10:58am

E-Team
When crimes against humanity flare up, members of the E-Team serve as the world's first responders.

10:00am

10:15am

Odd Fellows Lodge

Beyond Pretty Pictures

Conversation

75 min

10:15 - 11:30am

Beyond Pretty Pictures
What was previously off limits is now possible through affordable, lightweight equipment, and low-cost DIY hacking. Increasingly light-sensitive cameras liberate filmmakers to capture nighttime scenes; miniature, waterproof cameras are cheap; skeleton crews allow subjects to feel more comfortable revealing themselves. T/F alumni Omar Mullick quizzes Linda Västrik (Forest of the Dancing Spirits), Ewan McNicol (Uncertain), and Victor Kossakovsky (Demonstration) on how they harness technology to tell better stories.

10:30am

12:30pm

12:45pm

Missouri Theatre

The Unknown Known

Film

105 min

12:45 - 2:30pm

The Unknown Known
Ten rounds of sparring between Errol Morris, our greatest living interviewer, and Donald Rumsfeld, a master of political obfuscation.

1:00pm

2:00pm

Sparky's Saturday Showcase

Concert

120 min

2 - 4pm

Sparky's Saturday Showcase
Sure it's cold outside but what better way to bid winter adieu than a concert in an ice cream shop? Flux Bikes and Prahlad will fill the shop with delicious percussion and beautiful sounds. Hosted by Sparky's, our sweetest friends, who happen to make Columbia's finest homemade ice cream. Free and open to the public, donations accepted.

2:30pm

3:00pm

3:30pm

4:00pm

Filmmaker Fete

Party

120 min

4 - 6pm

Filmmaker Fete
The fête is our annual banquet in honor of our visiting filmmakers. Hosted annually by our friends at PS:Gallery, featuring artful culinary delights, courtesy of Sycamore's chef Mike Odette, a James Beard Award finalist. The Champagne and wine flows courtesy of Golden Barrel Distributing. Ticket Required, open to Super and Silver Circle passholders.

5:30pm

6:00pm

6:30pm

Big Ragtag

Kingdom, If I Can (shorts)

Short

67 min

6:30 - 7:37pm
NRT

Kingdom, If I Can (shorts)
Transcendence doesn't come easy, as shown in three international shorts: The Green Serpent, Mountain in Shadow and Sirs & Misters.

7:00pm

True/Folk Saturday Showcase

Concert

150 min

7 - 9:30pm

True/Folk Saturday Showcase
Stepdaughter, Lone Piñon, and The Onions will sing, strum, and fiddle your hearts away. Doors at 6:00pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.

8:00pm

8:30pm

9:00pm

9:30pm

10:30pm

10:45pm

Big Ragtag

Demonstration

Film

75 min

10:45 - 12am
NRT

Demonstration
32 Spanish film students, led by 2012 True Vision honoree Victor Kossakovsky, craft a playful and poetic vision of protest.

E-Team

E-Team

True Life Run

True Life Run

The Overnighters

The Overnighters

The Green Prince

The Green Prince

The Joycean Society

The Joycean Society

The Apple

The Apple

Arthouse to Statehouse

Arthouse to Statehouse

Secret Screening Amber

Secret Screening Amber

Forest of the Dancing Spirits

Forest of the Dancing Spirits

Beyond Pretty Pictures

Beyond Pretty Pictures

The Art Ramble

The Art Ramble

Tim's Vermeer

Tim's Vermeer

The Unknown Known

The Unknown Known

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Concerning Violence

Concerning Violence

Kith & Kin (shorts)

Kith & Kin (shorts)

Uncertain (work-in-progress)

Uncertain (work-in-progress)

Place is the Space

Place is the Space

Particle Fever

Particle Fever

Killing Time

Killing Time

Africa is Not a Country

Africa is Not a Country

Sparky's Saturday Showcase

Sparky's Saturday Showcase

The Art Ramble

The Art Ramble

Private Violence

Private Violence

The Notorious Mr. Bout

The Notorious Mr. Bout

Secret Screening Amber

Secret Screening Amber

Rich Hill

Rich Hill

Manakamana

Manakamana

My Kid Could Paint That

My Kid Could Paint That

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga

Big Men

Big Men

Filmmaker Fete

Filmmaker Fete

Secret Screening Burgundy

Secret Screening Burgundy

Stop-Over (L'Escale)

Stop-Over (L'Escale)

Concerning Violence

Concerning Violence

Approaching the Elephant

Approaching the Elephant

Happy Valley

Happy Valley

Ukraine is Not a Brothel

Ukraine is Not a Brothel

Kingdom, If I Can (shorts)

Kingdom, If I Can (shorts)

Life After Death

Life After Death