2015 Schedule

Mar 06 Friday

	Missouri Theatre	Cornell Hall	The Vimeo Theater at The Blue Note	The Picturehouse	Geology	Rhynsburger Theatre	The Globe	Forrest Theater	Odd Fellows Lodge	Big Ragtag	Willy Wilson @ Ragtag	Reynolds Journalism Institute	Cafe Berlin	Other
10am												10:30am The New Chinese Nonfiction Conversation 75 min 10:30 - 11:45am The New Chinese Nonfiction Since 1990, illegal, guerrilla-style cinema has burst on the scene to sit alongside more traditional government-produced, nonfiction films in China.
11am			11:00am The Look of Silence Film 98 min 11 - 12:38pm NRT The Look of Silence One man’s search for the men who murdered his brother. True Life Fund Film. Presented by The Crossing	11:00am Cartel Land Film 98 min 11 - 12:38pm NRT Cartel Land Jaw-dropping footage highlights this character study from the dark heart of the drug wars.			11:30am Hear My Cry (N/N shorts) Short 81 min 11:30 - 12:51pm NRT Hear My Cry (N/N shorts) In his brilliant, devastating 1991 debut, Maciej Drygas investigates a mysteriously under-reported 1968 incident in which a Polish man set himself on fire. Screens as a part of Neither/Nor sidebar. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences	11:30am Invasion Film 93 min 11:30 - 1:03pm NRT Invasion Panama’s invisible history surfaces to counteract all you know about the dethroning of tyrant Manuel Noriega. US Premiere Co-Presented with Miami International Film Festival			11:00am Maidan Film 133 min 11 - 1:13pm NRT Maidan Brick by brick, in stunning long shots, master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa shows the swelling surge of revolutionary spirit in Kiev’s Maidan Square.
12pm									12:00pm Brush With Fame (shorts) Short 71 min 12 - 1:11pm NRT Brush With Fame (shorts) Seven short films frame celebrity and its discontents: “Let the conversation begin.”	12:00pm Unstoryfiable - Where journalism fails and modern power begins Synapses 75 min 12 - 1:15pm NRT Unstoryfiable - Where journalism fails and modern power begins Adam Curtis presents a talk interspersed with film footage. A wide-ranging conversation with the filmmaker will follow.
1pm
2pm	2:00pm Bitter Lake Film 138 min 2 - 4:18pm NRT Bitter Lake On February 14, 1945 an American president and a Saudi sheikh made a deal on a warship and decided the destiny of the world. True Vision film. Presented by Restoration Eyecare		2:00pm Western Film 93 min 2 - 3:33pm NRT Western Imminent threats loom like storm clouds over a pair of towns on opposite sides of the Rio Grande.	2:00pm What Happened, Miss Simone? Film 102 min 2 - 3:42pm NRT What Happened, Miss Simone? Singer Nina Simone fought back demons to become one of her era’s most electrifying performers and a civil rights icon.			2:00pm Secret Screening Blue Film 94 min 2 - 3:34pm NRT Secret Screening Blue A film about greed, gullibility and how we value human life.	2:00pm Of Men and War Film 142 min 2 - 4:22pm NRT Of Men and War Veterans of the Iraq War take refuge with a Napa Valley therapist to find forgiveness in themselves. Presented by Veterans United Home Loans	2:30pm Tea Time Film 70 min 2:30 - 3:40pm NRT Tea Time For six decades, a group of ladies have gathered once a month for decadent cakes and high tea, offering us insight into friendship, age, and class politics in Chile. North American Premiere co-sponsored with Miami International Film Festival	2:45pm The Case of Pekosiński (N/N) Film 100 min 2:45 - 4:25pm NRT The Case of Pekosiński (N/N) Now nearing the end of his life, Polish chess master Bronek Pekosinski stars in his own biopic, playing himself from infancy to the present day. Screens as a part of Neither/Nor sidebar. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.	2:30pm Probation Time Film 90 min 2:30 - 4pm NRT Probation Time Fragile family ties are put to the test when the director’s adopted sister returns from jail.
3pm												3:00pm Try a Little Tenderness Conversation 75 min 3 - 4:15pm Try a Little Tenderness Moments of vulnerability make for great cinema but when your characters are real people, how do you know when to turn the camera off?
4pm			4:45pm The Chinese Mayor Film 86 min 4:45 - 6:11pm NRT The Chinese Mayor An ambitious mayor from Datong, China goes to great lengths to turn his city into a major tourist attraction.				4:30pm Something Better To Come Film 99 min 4:30 - 6:09pm NRT Something Better To Come Life at the margins: director Hanna Polak documented Yula from ages 10 to 24, as she grew up in a Moscow landfill.
5pm	5:30pm Reality Bites Reception 90 min 5:30 - 7pm Reality Bites Directly following the March March, step inside the Missouri Theatre and Columbia Art League to sample bites from a plethora of Columbia's finest restaurants. Sample wine from Missouri Wines and beer from Schlafly.			5:00pm Spartacus & Cassandra Film 80 min 5 - 6:20pm NRT Spartacus & Cassandra Can two Roma children find happiness with a no-nonsense, French trapeze artist?				5:30pm Best of Enemies Film 87 min 5:30 - 6:57pm NRT Best of Enemies As the culture wars of 1968 played out nightly on TV, conservative William F. Buckley and liberal Gore Vidal sparred, contentiously, sometimes maliciously.	5:00pm Drone Film 78 min 5 - 6:18pm NRT Drone Remotely operated aircraft are no longer the stuff of legends, they’re at our doorstep. This fine work of poetic journalism sifts the arguments for and against.	5:30pm Heaven Knows What Film 93 min 5:30 - 7:03pm NRT Heaven Knows What Young love grows like weeds amidst the bleakness of New York’s street kids community. Based on an unpublished memoir by recovering addict Arielle Holmes, who also stars.	5:00pm Almost There Film 93 min 5 - 6:33pm NRT Almost There Artist Peter Anton’s rickety home is in shambles. What secrets does it house?			5:15pm March March Other 30 min 5:15 - 5:45pm March March What better way to encourage the tremulous start of spring than to set a good example by marching into March? To bring in this month like a lion, we invite one and all to join in, dress in costume, ride your bike, whatever you'd like. Free and open to the public.
6pm		6:30pm Meru Film 92 min 6:30 - 8:02pm NRT Meru World-class cinematography highlights the quest of three men to climb what may be the hardest mountain in the world.
7pm	7:30pm Finders Keepers Film 82 min 7:30 - 8:52pm NRT Finders Keepers “Carolina Man Buys BBQ Grill, Finds Human Leg Inside.” What sounds like a tabloid headline provides a surprisingly transcendent look at celebrity, legal wranglings and modern media. Presented by Holder Susan Slusher Oxenhandler		7:30pm Secret Screening Orange Film 89 min 7:30 - 8:59pm NRT Secret Screening Orange Real life and fiction collide in a meeting between artists.	7:30pm Secret Screening Red Film 100 min 7:30 - 9:10pm NRT Secret Screening Red Real-life Shakespearean drama unfolds amidst a political struggle.	7:00pm Rules of the Game Film 106 min 7 - 8:46pm NRT Rules of the Game A bittersweet, sometimes hilarious look at a French employment agency that mentors the young and marginalized.	7:00pm The Measure of All Things Film 75 min 7 - 8:15pm NRT The Measure of All Things A mashup of film, performance and live music tells the surprisingly poignant stories behind The Guinness Book of World Records. Presented by Aggregate	7:00pm I Am the People Film 110 min 7 - 8:50pm NRT I Am the People In the midst of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian-French director stumbles upon a family far from Tahrir Square, whose lives are perched between donkeys and satellite dishes.				7:30pm White Out, Black In Film 95 min 7:30 - 9:05pm NRT White Out, Black In This low-fi, sci-fi documentary features two men still hobbled by the aftermath of a Brasilia dance party and a mysterious man from the future, 2073 to be exact.			7:00pm True/Folk Friday Happy Hour Concert 180 min 7 - 10pm True/Folk Friday Happy Hour Some enjoy a drink straight, while others the perfect blend. If you enjoy rich velvety harmonies then stop in to hear Steven Carrel, Stepdaughter, and The Onions. Doors at 6pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux, and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
8pm								8:00pm Time Is A Thief (shorts) Short 83 min 8 - 9:23pm NRT Time Is A Thief (shorts) From taxi drivers to mall walkers, can collectors to gold diggers, time weighs heavy on the subjects featured in this shorts collection.		8:00pm Anything Can Happen (N/N shorts) Short 98 min 8 - 9:38pm NRT Anything Can Happen (N/N shorts) After the communist Polish People’s Republic disintegrated in 1989, provocateur Marcel Łoziński directed three introspective short-form masterworks Screens as a part of Neither/Nor sidebar. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
9pm		9:30pm Drone Film 78 min 9:30 - 10:48pm NRT Drone Remotely operated aircraft are no longer the stuff of legends, they’re at our doorstep. This fine work of poetic journalism sifts the arguments for and against.			9:45pm Tales of the Grim Sleeper Film 105 min 9:45 - 11:30pm NRT Tales of the Grim Sleeper With a measured outrage and the power of a hard-boiled thriller, Tales uncloaks a serial killer who hid for decades.	9:30pm Jeff, Embrace Your Past Film 77 min 9:30 - 10:47pm NRT Jeff, Embrace Your Past Visionary art provocateur Jeff Koons and outsiders from an English mental hospital are captured in their artistic prime. Plays with short: Abandoned Goods			9:30pm Campfire Stories Other 90 min 9:30 - 11pm NRT Campfire Stories Eight filmmakers gather around a "campfire" to swap tales of the scene that got away, complete with homemade s'mores courtesy of: Uprise Bakery, the Candy Factory and the Wine Cellar & Bistro.				9:00pm Toast/False Friday Showcase Concert 240 min 9 - 1am Toast/False Friday Showcase Dubb Nubb, Dreamgirl, and Anonymous Choir will sweep you away for a night of dreams brought to life and classics revived. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux, and Juggernaut passholders, $7 general admission.	9:30pm Rose Music Hall Friday Showcase Concert 210 min 9:30 - 1am Rose Music Hall Friday Showcase Pat Sajak Assassins, Fliight, and Cave will traverse the sonic sound waves of your mind with psychedelic riffs and beats. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, and Silver Circle passholders, $8 for other passholders, $12 general admission.
10pm	10:15pm Cartel Land Film 98 min 10:15 - 11:53pm NRT Cartel Land Jaw-dropping footage highlights this character study from the dark heart of the drug wars.		10:00pm Secret Screening Green Film 87 min 10 - 11:27pm NRT Secret Screening Green Teeming with life and savage wit, this buddy film has a few tricks up its sleeve.	10:15pm Secret Screening Yellow Film 72 min 10:15 - 11:27pm NRT Secret Screening Yellow A motley crew of obsessive absurdists attempt to make sense of humanity.			10:00pm The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Film 87 min 10 - 11:27pm NRT The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Billionaire Robert Durst’s life has been full of death and loss. Is he the unluckiest man in the world? Or the luckiest?	10:30pm You Can't Get There From Here (shorts) Short 79 min 10:30 - 11:49pm NRT You Can't Get There From Here (shorts) Restless souls seek refuge (or a way out) in this collection of tenderly evocative films.		10:30pm Life According to Ohad Film 80 min 10:30 - 11:50pm Life According to Ohad Family dinner is never easy for Ohad, an estranged animal rights activist who hasn’t seen eye to eye with his parents in many years.	10:00pm Girl You Know It's True (shorts) Short 70 min 10 - 11:10pm NRT Girl You Know It's True (shorts) Four wildly creative films all haunted by the past, set to a soundtrack featuring Milli Vanilli, Skeeter Davis and the Shangri-Las.			10:00pm @ction! Party Party 180 min 10 - 1am @ction! Party The now-legendary Friday night party held at one of our favorite downtown nightclubs.
11pm
12am
1am

10:30am

Reynolds Journalism Institute

The New Chinese Nonfiction

Conversation

75 min

10:30 - 11:45am

The New Chinese Nonfiction
Since 1990, illegal, guerrilla-style cinema has burst on the scene to sit alongside more traditional government-produced, nonfiction films in China.

11:00am

The Vimeo Theater at The Blue Note

The Look of Silence

Film

98 min

11 - 12:38pm
NRT

The Look of Silence
One man’s search for the men who murdered his brother. True Life Fund Film. Presented by The Crossing
The Picturehouse

Cartel Land

Film

98 min

11 - 12:38pm
NRT

Cartel Land
Jaw-dropping footage highlights this character study from the dark heart of the drug wars.
Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

Maidan

Film

133 min

11 - 1:13pm
NRT

Maidan
Brick by brick, in stunning long shots, master filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa shows the swelling surge of revolutionary spirit in Kiev’s Maidan Square.

11:30am

12:00pm

2:00pm

2:30pm

5:00pm

5:15pm

March March

Other

30 min

5:15 - 5:45pm

March March
What better way to encourage the tremulous start of spring than to set a good example by marching into March? To bring in this month like a lion, we invite one and all to join in, dress in costume, ride your bike, whatever you'd like. Free and open to the public.

5:30pm

6:30pm

Cornell Hall

Meru

Film

92 min

6:30 - 8:02pm
NRT

Meru
World-class cinematography highlights the quest of three men to climb what may be the hardest mountain in the world.

7:00pm

7:30pm

8:00pm

9:00pm

Cafe Berlin

Toast/False Friday Showcase

Concert

240 min

9 - 1am

Toast/False Friday Showcase
Dubb Nubb, Dreamgirl, and Anonymous Choir will sweep you away for a night of dreams brought to life and classics revived. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Busker Band, Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux, and Juggernaut passholders, $7 general admission.

9:30pm

9:45pm

Geology

Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Film

105 min

9:45 - 11:30pm
NRT

Tales of the Grim Sleeper
With a measured outrage and the power of a hard-boiled thriller, Tales uncloaks a serial killer who hid for decades.

The New Chinese Nonfiction

The New Chinese Nonfiction

The Look of Silence

The Look of Silence

Cartel Land

Cartel Land

Hear My Cry (N/N shorts)

Hear My Cry (N/N shorts)

Invasion

Invasion

Maidan

Maidan

Brush With Fame (shorts)

Brush With Fame (shorts)

Unstoryfiable - Where journalism fails and modern power begins

Unstoryfiable - Where journalism fails and modern power begins

Bitter Lake

Bitter Lake

Western

Western

What Happened, Miss Simone?

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Secret Screening Blue

Secret Screening Blue

Of Men and War

Of Men and War

Tea Time

Tea Time

The Case of Pekosiński (N/N)

The Case of Pekosiński (N/N)

Probation Time

Probation Time

Try a Little Tenderness

Try a Little Tenderness

The Chinese Mayor

The Chinese Mayor

Something Better To Come

Something Better To Come

Reality Bites

Reality Bites

Spartacus & Cassandra

Spartacus & Cassandra

Best of Enemies

Best of Enemies

Drone

Drone

Heaven Knows What

Heaven Knows What

Almost There

Almost There

March March

March March

Meru

Meru

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers

Secret Screening Orange

Secret Screening Orange

Secret Screening Red

Secret Screening Red

Rules of the Game

Rules of the Game

The Measure of All Things

The Measure of All Things

I Am the People

I Am the People

White Out, Black In

White Out, Black In

True/Folk Friday Happy Hour

True/Folk Friday Happy Hour

Time Is A Thief (shorts)

Time Is A Thief (shorts)

Anything Can Happen (N/N shorts)

Anything Can Happen (N/N shorts)

Drone

Drone

Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Tales of the Grim Sleeper

Jeff, Embrace Your Past

Jeff, Embrace Your Past