2016 Schedule

Mar 05 Saturday

	Jesse Auditorium	Missouri Theatre	The Vimeo Theater at The Blue Note	The Picturehouse	Rhynsburger Theatre	The Globe	Forrest Theater	Big Ragtag	Willy Wilson @ Ragtag	Reynolds Journalism Institute	Lost Letters	Cafe Berlin	Other
9am	9:30am Sherpa Film 96 min 9:30 - 11:06am NRT Sherpa In this visually soaring adventure, a tragic Mt. Everest avalanche exposes the relentless strains placed upon the guides.		9:30am Life, Animated Film 89 min 9:30 - 10:59am NRT Life, Animated An enchanted, inspiring, true-life fairy tale: Owen Suskind struggles to speak until he finds his eccentric mentors, a band of Disney sidekicks.	9:30am The Music of Strangers Film 96 min 9:30 - 11:06am NRT The Music of Strangers Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble are on an uplifting mission to connect the world through music.	9:30am The Land of the Enlightened Film 87 min 9:30 - 10:57am NRT The Land of the Enlightened A boy’s life, Afghani style, as a merry band of marauders extort, scavenge, and traverse a beautiful, bombed-out dreamscape.	9:30am The Pearl Film 97 min 9:30 - 11:07am NRT The Pearl In a world far from glossy magazines featuring Laverne Cox, four middle-aged transgender women struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love.	9:30am Between Sisters Film 78 min 9:30 - 10:48am NRT Between Sisters Teresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.		9:30am Untitled Ramona Diaz Project Film 95 min 9:30 - 11:05am NRT Untitled Ramona Diaz Project WORK IN PROGRESS. In a Manila hospital, women of all ages hold something precious in their arms and close to their hearts.	9:00am Staying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build Independence Other 90 min 9 - 10:30am Staying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build Independence Seed&Spark big cheese and all-around mega-smartypants Emily Best gets counterintuitive in this provocative talk about crowdfunding.			9:00am True Life Run Other 60 min 9 - 10am True Life Run The True Life Run invites all runners and walkers to start Saturday, March 5 with a mad dash through the streets of downtown Columbia. The entry fee of $25 includes the run, official T-shirt, and breakfast. Online registration for the True Life Run ends at 10pm on Friday, March 4. You can register on site at 8am on Saturday, March 5, for a day-of fee of $30. Proceeds from the Run are donated to the True Life Fund.
10am		10:00am Thy Father's Chair Film 88 min 10 - 11:28am Thy Father's Chair Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment – until concerned neighbors intercede.						10:00am Helmut Berger, Actor Film 90 min 10 - 11:30am NRT Helmut Berger, Actor The most beautiful actor of his day is now a glorious wreck, and a trip to St. Tropez won’t cure his ills.			10:00am LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 10 - 11am NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.
11am										11:00am Field Session: Intimate Strangers Synapses 75 min 11 - 12:15pm Field Session: Intimate Strangers With Roberto Minervini and Kaitlin Prest	11:30am LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 11:30 - 12:30pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.
12pm	12:30pm Sonita Film 90 min 12:30 - 2pm NRT Sonita Dead-set against being sold as a bride, a feisty Afghan refugee breaks loose to become a rapper.		12:45pm The Fear of 13 Film 96 min 12:45 - 2:21pm NRT The Fear of 13 Death row inmate Nick Yarris has the presence and poise of a Shakespearean thespian. But can he be believed?	12:15pm Secret Screening Aqua Film 85 min 12:15 - 1:40pm NRT Secret Screening Aqua The director recovers his castaway childhood by drawing on a vast archive of videotapes. Plays with "Girls and Boys" (dir. Tomasz Gubernat, 14 min.)	12:00pm Behemoth Film 91 min 12 - 1:31pm NRT Behemoth With restrained anger, Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang brings us on a staggering journey into a modern-day Dante’s Inferno, the pitch-black mines of Inner Mongolia.	12:15pm The Last Days of Winter Film 52 min 12:15 - 1:07pm NRT The Last Days of Winter The precursor to Starless Dreams – seven young Iranian detainees spill their secrets and their passions to True Vision award winner Mehrdad Oskouei.	12:00pm My Best Fiasco (shorts) Short 79 min 12 - 1:19pm NRT My Best Fiasco (shorts) Three established filmmakers and a nine-year-old demonstrate right and wrong approaches to depicting on-screen violence.	12:30pm Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Film 364 min 12:30 - 6:34pm NRT Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) This landmark epic is an immersive profile of one Iraqi family before and after the 2003 occupation.	12:00pm O Futebol Film 70 min 12 - 1:10pm NRT O Futebol A reunited father and son seek an elusive epiphany during the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo.	12:45pm Field Session: Build / Unbuild- Soundscape Synapses 75 min 12:45 - 2pm Field Session: Build / Unbuild- Soundscape With Deborah Stratman and Michal Marczak			12:00pm The Art Ramble Other 30 min 12 - 12:30pm The Art Ramble Bon vivant and raconteur Gabriel Williams leads rollicking tours of downtown art and curiosities, including many of True/False’s art installations. Free and open to the public.
1pm		1:00pm The Bad Kids Film 101 min 1 - 2:41pm NRT The Bad Kids At an isolated, alternative high school, a firebrand principal tests the limits of tough love working with teenagers considered to be lost causes.									1:00pm LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 1 - 2pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.
2pm					2:45pm Nosotras · Ellas Film 64 min 2:45 - 3:49pm NRT Nosotras · Ellas Julia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.	2:45pm Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John Film 86 min 2:45 - 4:11pm NRT Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John Canadian siblings seek to solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance - and learn what fate befell this charming rogue.	2:30pm The Illinois Parables Film 60 min 2:30 - 3:30pm NRT The Illinois Parables Archival and original 16mm footage mesh with visionary sound design, as the singular Deborah Stratman tells a counter-narrative to how the Midwest was won.		2:15pm The Other Side Film 92 min 2:15 - 3:47pm NRT The Other Side Addiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.	2:30pm Field Session: Crafting Cinematic Biography Synapses 75 min 2:30 - 3:45pm Field Session: Crafting Cinematic Biography With Jeff Feuerzeig and Heidi Ewing	2:30pm LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 2:30 - 3:30pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.		2:00pm Sparky’s Saturday Showcase Concert 120 min 2 - 4pm Sparky’s Saturday Showcase The finest of pure, lo-fi indie rock and delicate, twisted lyricism Stepdaughter and The Lentils (solo). Free and open to the public, donations accepted! 2:30pm The Art Ramble Other 30 min 2:30 - 3pm The Art Ramble Bon vivant and raconteur Gabriel Williams leads rollicking tours of downtown art and curiosities, including many of True/False’s art installations. Free and open to the public.
3pm	3:45pm Presenting Princess Shaw Film 86 min 3:45 - 5:11pm Presenting Princess Shaw Singer-songwriter Princess Shaw aspires to greatness, but is anyone listening?		3:30pm Jim: The James Foley Story Film 110 min 3:30 - 5:20pm NRT Jim: The James Foley Story Memorializing James Foley, a photojournalist who rushed both headlong and heroically into war zones.	3:00pm Between Sisters Film 78 min 3 - 4:18pm NRT Between Sisters Teresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.
4pm		4:00pm Starless Dreams Film 76 min 4 - 5:16pm NRT Starless Dreams In this emotionally charged masterpiece, a group of underage female convicts dream of escaping the detention center and returning to their families.							4:45pm Stand Beside Her and Guide Her (shorts) Short 79 min 4:45 - 6:04pm NRT Stand Beside Her and Guide Her (shorts) This patriotic program includes potent explorations of gentrification, gun violence and marginalized communities, before culminating in a good, old-fashioned country song.		4:00pm LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 4 - 5pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.		4:00pm Filmmaker Fête Reception 120 min 4 - 6pm Filmmaker Fête The Fête is our banquet to honor visiting Fimmakers. Ticket required, open to Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders. 4:30pm Landmark Fired Up Concert 240 min 4:30 - 8:30pm Landmark Fired Up Stop by for a warming taste of T/F buskers and hot chocolate! Free and open to the public, donations accepted.
5pm				5:45pm Cameraperson Film 108 min 5:45 - 7:33pm NRT Cameraperson A profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.	5:00pm Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Film 97 min 5 - 6:37pm NRT Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Sitcom king Norman Lear single-handedly revolutionized television. But what has he done lately?	5:30pm Release Me, Let Me Go (shorts) Short 88 min 5:30 - 6:58pm NRT Release Me, Let Me Go (shorts) Tolstoy said happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. In these stunning shorts, we learn about three of those ways.	5:00pm The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Film 90 min 5 - 6:30pm NRT The Prison in Twelve Landscapes This impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the fabric of American life.				5:30pm LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 5:30 - 6:30pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.
6pm	6:45pm Author: The JT LeRoy Story Film 110 min 6:45 - 8:35pm Author: The JT LeRoy Story JT LeRoy, progeny of a truck stop prostitute, burst into the 90s literary scene and enchanted celebrities from Bono to Winona Ryder. Then things got weird.	6:30pm Kate Plays Christine Film 112 min 6:30 - 8:22pm NRT Kate Plays Christine This artifice-spiked detective story follows rising movie star Kate Lyn Sheil down a rabbit hole inspired by Christine Chubbuck, a Sarasota newscaster who met a tragic end.	6:30pm The Other Side Film 92 min 6:30 - 8:02pm NRT The Other Side Addiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.
7pm					7:45pm Peter and the Farm Film 92 min 7:45 - 9:17pm NRT Peter and the Farm Back-to-the-lander Peter Dunning has become one with his Vermont farm, perched somewhere between paradise and hell.		7:45pm You Just Can't Win (shorts) Short 77 min 7:45 - 9:02pm NRT You Just Can't Win (shorts) Governments fight mosquitoes, monkeys and each other, while hairdressers and siblings search for love. What’s the use in trying?		7:15pm Behemoth Film 91 min 7:15 - 8:46pm NRT Behemoth With restrained anger, Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang brings us on a staggering journey into a modern-day Dante’s Inferno, the pitch-black mines of Inner Mongolia.		7:00pm LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 7 - 8pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.		7:00pm Sanctuary Concert Concert 90 min 7 - 8:30pm Sanctuary Concert Booming through the aisles the soulful sounds of Anni Rossi and Mal Devisa, with a special appearance by Columbia’s beloved David Wax. Doors at 6:30pm. Free and open to the public!
8pm				8:45pm Those Who Jump Film 80 min 8:45 - 10:05pm NRT Those Who Jump In the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.		8:00pm Another Country Film 87 min 8 - 9:27pm NRT Another Country Aboriginal movie star David Gulpilil is our sardonic tour guide to the outback, where his people maintain a strong sense of history against creeping cultural imperialism.		8:00pm Nosotras · Ellas Film 64 min 8 - 9:04pm NRT Nosotras · Ellas Julia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.			8:30pm LOST LETTERS Synapses 60 min 8:30 - 9:30pm NRT LOST LETTERS True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.	8:00pm Saturday Berlin Busker Revue Concert 210 min 8 - 11:30pm Saturday Berlin Busker Revue A night of soul searching and exuberance featuring the intense and mellow sounds of Your Friend and Bella Donna and beaming of DeQn Sue and The David Wax Museum. Doors at 7:00pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Lux, Busker Band, Juggernaut, $5 general admission.
9pm	9:45pm Tickled Film 92 min 9:45 - 11:17pm NRT Tickled This news-of-the-weird story about a fringe sport morphs into a twisty tale of obsession, exploitation, sex, and blackmail.	9:45pm Secret Screening Navy Film 70 min 9:45 - 10:55pm NRT Secret Screening Navy This blood-boiling essay about technology run amok pivots from bedrooms to backrooms.											9:30pm Saturday Party at Rose Concert 210 min 9:30 - 1am Saturday Party at Rose The finest hard rocking late night ever offered by T/F: Hearing Things, Bruiser Queen, and Screaming Females. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Busker Band, Juggernauts, $5 for Lux, $10 general admission.
10pm			10:30pm Gimme Truth! Other 90 min 10:30 - 12am NRT Gimme Truth! Emceed by the Johnny St. John, America's favorite documentary game show challenges the audience plus a panel of esteemed contestants to decide whether films are true or false. Local non-professional filmmakers attempt to fool seasoned directors by presenting their totally true or totally false two-minute docs. Ticket required.		10:15pm All These Sleepless Nights Film 100 min 10:15 - 11:55pm NRT All These Sleepless Nights Glasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin' with some girls I've never seen before...		10:00pm Helmut Berger, Actor Film 90 min 10 - 11:30pm NRT Helmut Berger, Actor The most beautiful actor of his day is now a glorious wreck, and a trip to St. Tropez won’t cure his ills.	10:00pm Des Morts (N/N) Film 105 min 10 - 11:45pm NRT Des Morts (N/N) From elaborate public burials to the fiery insides of a cremation chamber, Des Morts crisscrosses the globe, sensitively studying how humans process grief. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.	10:30pm Secret Screening Scarlet Film 84 min 10:30 - 11:54pm NRT Secret Screening Scarlet Every emotion heightened, every moment vital, every connection new and electric.				10:00pm VJ Suave Animation Ride Other 60 min 10 - 11pm VJ Suave Animation Ride Artist Ygor Marotta visits the US for the first time from São Paulo, Brazil with his Suaveciclo. On a specially rigged tricycle, Marotta will ride through the streets of Columbia throwing beautiful animated projections on the walls and surfaces of downtown. Crafted from hand drawings, transformed into digital animation, then using unique projection techniques, his characters fly and run across the landscape fusing animated stories with real life, creating a colorful moving canvas. Free and open to the public.
11pm		11:30pm Concerned Student 1950 Film 30 min 11:30 - 12am Concerned Student 1950 This vivid and stirring short brings us up close with Concerned Student 1950, a collective of Black student activists at the University of Missouri, during their history-making protest, which resulted in the resignation of the university's system president. Presented with Field of Vision. (Plays at 11:30pm Saturday, March 5 at Missouri Theatre. Those attending 9:45pm screening of Secret Screening Navy are welcome to stay for the short. For those not at Secret Screening Navy, True/False will be passing out a separate, free, Q starting at 10:30pm.)
12am
1am

9:00am

Reynolds Journalism Institute

Staying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build Independence

Other

90 min

9 - 10:30am

Staying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build Independence
Seed&Spark big cheese and all-around mega-smartypants Emily Best gets counterintuitive in this provocative talk about crowdfunding.
True Life Run

Other

60 min

9 - 10am

True Life Run
The True Life Run invites all runners and walkers to start Saturday, March 5 with a mad dash through the streets of downtown Columbia. The entry fee of $25 includes the run, official T-shirt, and breakfast. Online registration for the True Life Run ends at 10pm on Friday, March 4. You can register on site at 8am on Saturday, March 5, for a day-of fee of $30. Proceeds from the Run are donated to the True Life Fund.

9:30am

10:00am

11:00am

Reynolds Journalism Institute

Field Session: Intimate Strangers

Synapses

75 min

11 - 12:15pm

Field Session: Intimate Strangers
With Roberto Minervini and Kaitlin Prest

11:30am

Lost Letters

LOST LETTERS

Synapses

60 min

11:30 - 12:30pm
NRT

LOST LETTERS
True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.

12:00pm

12:15pm

12:30pm

12:45pm

1:00pm

2:00pm

Sparky’s Saturday Showcase

Concert

120 min

2 - 4pm

Sparky’s Saturday Showcase
The finest of pure, lo-fi indie rock and delicate, twisted lyricism Stepdaughter and The Lentils (solo). Free and open to the public, donations accepted!

2:15pm

Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

The Other Side

Film

92 min

2:15 - 3:47pm
NRT

The Other Side
Addiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.

2:30pm

2:45pm

4:00pm

4:30pm

Landmark Fired Up

Concert

240 min

4:30 - 8:30pm

Landmark Fired Up
Stop by for a warming taste of T/F buskers and hot chocolate! Free and open to the public, donations accepted.

4:45pm

Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

Stand Beside Her and Guide Her (shorts)

Short

79 min

4:45 - 6:04pm
NRT

Stand Beside Her and Guide Her (shorts)
This patriotic program includes potent explorations of gentrification, gun violence and marginalized communities, before culminating in a good, old-fashioned country song.

5:00pm

5:30pm

5:45pm

The Picturehouse

Cameraperson

Film

108 min

5:45 - 7:33pm
NRT

Cameraperson
A profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.

6:30pm

6:45pm

Jesse Auditorium

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

Film

110 min

6:45 - 8:35pm

Author: The JT LeRoy Story
JT LeRoy, progeny of a truck stop prostitute, burst into the 90s literary scene and enchanted celebrities from Bono to Winona Ryder. Then things got weird.

7:00pm

7:15pm

Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

Behemoth

Film

91 min

7:15 - 8:46pm
NRT

Behemoth
With restrained anger, Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang brings us on a staggering journey into a modern-day Dante’s Inferno, the pitch-black mines of Inner Mongolia.

7:45pm

8:00pm

8:30pm

Lost Letters

LOST LETTERS

Synapses

60 min

8:30 - 9:30pm
NRT

LOST LETTERS
True/False manifests Missouri’s first work of interactive, immersive theater. Located at: 110 N 10th Suite 7. Open only to those who have purchased a Lost Letters ticket; admission is not included with any festival pass.

8:45pm

The Picturehouse

Those Who Jump

Film

80 min

8:45 - 10:05pm
NRT

Those Who Jump
In the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.

9:30pm

Saturday Party at Rose

Concert

210 min

9:30 - 1am

Saturday Party at Rose
The finest hard rocking late night ever offered by T/F: Hearing Things, Bruiser Queen, and Screaming Females. Doors at 8:30pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Busker Band, Juggernauts, $5 for Lux, $10 general admission.

9:45pm

10:00pm

10:15pm

Rhynsburger Theatre

All These Sleepless Nights

Film

100 min

10:15 - 11:55pm
NRT

All These Sleepless Nights
Glasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin' with some girls I've never seen before...

10:30pm

11:30pm

Missouri Theatre

Concerned Student 1950

Film

30 min

11:30 - 12am

Concerned Student 1950
This vivid and stirring short brings us up close with Concerned Student 1950, a collective of Black student activists at the University of Missouri, during their history-making protest, which resulted in the resignation of the university's system president. Presented with Field of Vision. (Plays at 11:30pm Saturday, March 5 at Missouri Theatre. Those attending 9:45pm screening of Secret Screening Navy are welcome to stay for the short. For those not at Secret Screening Navy, True/False will be passing out a separate, free, Q starting at 10:30pm.)

Sherpa

Sherpa

Life, Animated

Life, Animated

The Music of Strangers

The Music of Strangers

The Land of the Enlightened

The Land of the Enlightened

The Pearl

The Pearl

Between Sisters

Between Sisters

Untitled Ramona Diaz Project

Untitled Ramona Diaz Project

Staying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build Independence

Staying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build Independence

True Life Run

True Life Run

Thy Father's Chair

Thy Father's Chair

Helmut Berger, Actor

Helmut Berger, Actor

LOST LETTERS

LOST LETTERS

Field Session: Intimate Strangers

Field Session: Intimate Strangers

LOST LETTERS

LOST LETTERS

Sonita

Sonita

The Fear of 13

The Fear of 13

Secret Screening Aqua

Secret Screening Aqua

Behemoth

Behemoth

The Last Days of Winter

The Last Days of Winter

My Best Fiasco (shorts)

My Best Fiasco (shorts)

Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)

Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)

O Futebol

O Futebol

Field Session: Build / Unbuild- Soundscape

Field Session: Build / Unbuild- Soundscape

The Art Ramble

The Art Ramble

The Bad Kids

The Bad Kids

LOST LETTERS

LOST LETTERS

Nosotras · Ellas

Nosotras · Ellas

Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John

Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John

The Illinois Parables

The Illinois Parables

The Other Side

The Other Side

Field Session: Crafting Cinematic Biography

Field Session: Crafting Cinematic Biography

LOST LETTERS

LOST LETTERS

Sparky’s Saturday Showcase

Sparky’s Saturday Showcase

The Art Ramble

The Art Ramble

Presenting Princess Shaw

Presenting Princess Shaw

Jim: The James Foley Story

Jim: The James Foley Story

Between Sisters

Between Sisters

Starless Dreams

Starless Dreams

Stand Beside Her and Guide Her (shorts)

Stand Beside Her and Guide Her (shorts)

LOST LETTERS

LOST LETTERS