2018 Schedule

Mar 03 Saturday

	Jesse Auditorium	Missouri Theatre	Showtime Theater at The Blue Note	The Picturehouse	Rhynsburger Theatre	The Globe	Forrest Theater	Big Ragtag	Willy Wilson @ Ragtag	Cafe Berlin	Orr Street Studios	Other
9am	9:30am The Price of Everything Film 98 min 9:30 - 11:08am The Price of Everything Modern art is now a bankable commodity, with art stars like Jeff Koons and wealthy investors succeeding wildly, while others are left in the dust.		9:30am América Film 75 min 9:30 - 10:45am NRT América A colorful trio of Mexican brothers are called home to take care of their grandmother in this playful, irreverent family portrait.	9:30am Hale County This Morning, This Evening Film 76 min 9:30 - 10:46am NRT Hale County This Morning, This Evening Inventing a new film language, this film fearlessly reimagines the way black lives are portrayed on screen through the stories of two young men in Hale County, Alabama.	9:30am Secret Screening Mistral Film 81 min 9:30 - 10:51am NRT Secret Screening Mistral An impressionistic portrait of an individual who reaches for glory, falls short and tries again.	9:30am Artemio Film 68 min 9:30 - 10:38am NRT Artemio In this lushly photographed film, an Americanized mother and son return to their Mexican village in which the telephone becomes a lifeline.	9:30am Self-Portrait: Birth in 47KM Film 101 min 9:30 - 11:11am NRT Self-Portrait: Birth in 47KM Delicate scenes of village life anchor moving interviews with a survivor of the Great Famine, a subject still taboo in China.		9:30am The Family Film 106 min 9:30 - 11:16am NRT The Family Young Matej just can’t seem to catch a break – but now he must rise to the occasion of being a father.
10am		10:00am Lovers of the Night Film 71 min 10 - 11:11am NRT Lovers of the Night Seven Irish monks, holding on faithfully to their fragile monastery, confide their most tender secrets.						10:00am The Next Guardian Film 93 min 10 - 11:33am NRT The Next Guardian In a remote Bhutanese village, teenage siblings Gyembo and Tashi crave freedom and adventure.
11am						11:45am Secret Screening Gale Film 97 min 11:45 - 1:22pm NRT Secret Screening Gale Fighting from within a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, a small group of committed crusaders makes a stand.
12pm	12:30pm Primas Film 100 min 12:30 - 2:10pm NRT Primas Two cousins, Rocío and Aldana, courageously transcend trauma through creative therapy in this True Life Fund selection. Presented by The Crossing	12:30pm Makala Film 96 min 12:30 - 2:06pm NRT Makala In this spectacular and eventful journey, Kabwita hand-delivers charcoal to a faraway marketplace against epic odds.	12:00pm Kinshasa Makambo Film 75 min 12 - 1:15pm NRT Kinshasa Makambo True Vision honoree Dieudo Hamadi follows courageous young revolutionaries seeking to wrest control of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Presented by Restoration Eyecare	12:00pm Won't You Be My Neighbor? Film 99 min 12 - 1:39pm NRT Won't You Be My Neighbor? A behind-the-scenes, radical history of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," directed by T/F favorite Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom). Presented by Veterans United Home Loans	12:00pm Combat Obscura Film 73 min 12 - 1:13pm NRT Combat Obscura The daily lives of Marines in Afghanistan as filmed by active-duty combat cameramen from the ultimate insider's perspective.		12:30pm Shorts: Red Wine 73 Short 73 min 12:30 - 1:43pm NRT Shorts: Red Wine 73 The subjects of these four shorts are defiantly living with joy.	12:45pm Bisbee '17 Film 118 min 12:45 - 2:43pm NRT Bisbee '17 Robert Greene creatively reimagines a dark chapter in labor history when organizing miners were sent packing.	12:15pm António e Catarina Film 73 min 12:15 - 1:28pm NRT António e Catarina Under cover of the night, "António" and "Catarina" dance a pas de deux in this unsettling character study.			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 Field Session: Rejoice Synapses 60 min 1 - 2pm Field Session: Rejoice Over years of editing, both Leilah Weinraub (SHAKEDOWN) and RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) found themselves migrating away from conventional cinematic languages. In this conversation, they discuss their parallel quests to reshape documentary grammar and expand the way films view black bodies.
2pm			2:45pm The Rider Film 105 min 2:45 - 4:30pm NRT The Rider A young rodeo cowboy navigates health and family after a potentially career-ending injury in this lush mashup of doc and fiction.	2:45pm Love Means Zero Film 94 min 2:45 - 4:19pm NRT Love Means Zero Antihero Nick Bollettieri, the quintessential tennis coach of the last 40 years, sports an ego that knows no bounds, causing a rift with celebrated student Andre Agassi.	2:30pm Playing Men Film 81 min 2:30 - 3:51pm NRT Playing Men A sometimes winking, sometimes eye-opening cabinet of curiosities of peculiar sports, gorgeously shot all over the Mediterranean.	2:30pm The Task Film 120 min 2:30 - 4:30pm NRT The Task Strangers cross-examine their tangled group dynamics, including the director’s culpability as the instigator of the project.	2:30pm Taming the Horse Film 129 min 2:30 - 4:39pm NRT Taming the Horse In the cutthroat world of modern China, Tong wanders aimlessly, looking for romance – and the meaning of life.		2:30pm National Diploma Film 92 min 2:30 - 4:02pm NRT National Diploma Determined Congolese students band together to pass a high-stakes graduation exam. From True Vision honoree Dieudo Hamadi.			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		3:30pm Crime + Punishment Film 112 min 3:30 - 5:22pm NRT Crime + Punishment Inside the extraordinary "NYPD 12," renegade cops bravely resist corruption and racial profiling.						3:45pm N/N: Twilight City Film 53 min 3:45 - 4:38pm NRT N/N: Twilight City When Octavia learns that her Dominica-based mother wishes to return to London, she writes a letter explaining how the city has changed under Thatcher in this entrancing essay film. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.				3:00pm Field Session: Reflect Synapses 60 min 3 - 4pm Field Session: Reflect Directors Kim Hopkins (Voices of the Sea) and Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside (América) spent significant time with their subjects, close-knit families in Cuba and Mexico, respectively. Join these three as they consider what boundaries, if any, their subjects set, their Spanish-language immersions, and their experiences at T/F and Catapult Film Fund's Rough Cut Retreat.
4pm	4:00pm The Next Guardian Film 93 min 4 - 5:33pm The Next Guardian In a remote Bhutanese village, teenage siblings Gyembo and Tashi crave freedom and adventure.										4:00pm Filmmaker Fête Reception 120 min 4 - 6pm Filmmaker Fête The Fête is our banquet to honor visiting filmmakers. Hosted by our friends at Orr Street Studios and featuring artful culinary creations from Sycamore chef Mike Odette, a James Beard Award semifinalist. Enjoy delicious treats, hard cider, wine, and bubbly courtesy of St. James Winery; beer from Logboat, Public House, and Rock Bridge breweries; and hand-brewed coffee from Kaldi's, all while gazing upon new work by the artists of Orr Street Studios. Ticket required; open to Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders. PRESENTED BY HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS	4:00pm Courtyard Concert Concert 180 min 4 - 7pm Courtyard Concert Outdoor yet totally toasty; enjoy the soaring harmonies of The Big Sky and Sterling/Pale along with the roaring guitars of local freak-folk rockers The Adaptation. Located in the Landmark Bank Courtyard, free & open to the public.
5pm			5:45pm Shirkers Film 96 min 5:45 - 7:21pm NRT Shirkers A misfit band of young women shoot Singapore's first independent movie with the help of a shadowy mentor, then the film mysteriously vanishes.	5:30pm Bisbee '17 Film 118 min 5:30 - 7:28pm NRT Bisbee '17 Robert Greene creatively reimagines a dark chapter in labor history when organizing miners were sent packing.	5:00pm Shorts: Kombucha 71 Short 71 min 5 - 6:11pm Shorts: Kombucha 71 These five shorts exhume lost histories and lives.		5:45pm Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Film 115 min 5:45 - 7:40pm NRT Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami From Jamaican family dinner to the world stage, iconic Grace Jones magically dances between down-to-earth moments and pure transcendence.		5:30pm Westwood Film 78 min 5:30 - 6:48pm NRT Westwood Fashionista Vivienne Westwood, who invented the look of British punk in the '70s, now owns a sprawling empire but remains a singular iconoclast.
6pm		6:30pm Of Fathers and Sons Film 98 min 6:30 - 8:08pm NRT Of Fathers and Sons A seasoned Al Qaeda sniper in Syria readies his 12-year-old to follow in his footsteps in this never-before-seen immersion into the world of radical jihadis.			6:15pm Q(uench) & A(nswers) Reception 30 min 6:15 - 6:45pm Q(uench) & A(nswers) A convivial reception spotlighting each short film program with eponymous complimentary beverages. Attendees can ask questions one-on-one and indulge in the libations. A True/False programmer will be present at each Q(uench) & A(nswer) to introduce filmmakers and briefly facilitate discussion. Open to ticketholders of the preceeding screening as well as Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders.	6:00pm Voices of the Sea Film 99 min 6 - 7:39pm NRT Voices of the Sea In a small seaside town in Cuba, Mariela longs for the elusive American Dream while her fisherman husband, Pita, tamps down her wanderlust.		6:00pm Shorts: Lager 72 Short 72 min 6 - 7:12pm NRT Shorts: Lager 72 Tour alternate histories and geographies in these four boundary-defying shorts.
7pm	7:00pm American Animals Film 116 min 7 - 8:56pm NRT American Animals Larcenous college students obsess about freeing a rare edition of Audubon's "Birds of America" in this white-knuckled heist film.				7:30pm Secret Screening Zephyr Film 84 min 7:30 - 8:54pm NRT Secret Screening Zephyr This convincing environmental rallying cry journeys to the center of the world's mysteries.				7:45pm Black Mother Film 77 min 7:45 - 9:02pm NRT Black Mother A spiritual journey through Jamaica, the island in the sun, a place of unparalleled resilience and beauty.			7:00pm Sanctuary Showcase Concert 90 min 7 - 8:30pm Sanctuary Showcase Find sanctuary in the sounds of Moroccan master guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Mahmoud Chouki and the Chicago experimental jazz duo Sun Speak. Free & open to the public.
8pm				8:30pm La Flor de la Vida Film 91 min 8:30 - 10:01pm NRT La Flor de la Vida Introverted Gabriella and extroverted Aldo are at a crossroads in their five-decade-old marriage.			8:45pm SHAKEDOWN Film 69 min 8:45 - 9:54pm NRT SHAKEDOWN A raucous, joyous celebration of an underground black lesbian strip club in early 2000s Los Angeles.	8:15pm Combat Obscura Film 73 min 8:15 - 9:28pm NRT Combat Obscura The daily lives of Marines in Afghanistan as filmed by active-duty combat cameramen from the ultimate insider's perspective.		8:00pm Berlin Saturday Night Showcase Concert 270 min 8 - 12:30am Berlin Saturday Night Showcase Tonina, pinkcaravan!, and the New Creations Brass Band join 18andCounting (Stan Chisholm) and TheOnlyEnsemble on a jam-packed bill of jazz and soul and hip-hop and everything in between. Free for Super/Silver, Lux, Busker Band, $5 general admission.
9pm		9:30pm Westwood Film 78 min 9:30 - 10:48pm NRT Westwood Fashionista Vivienne Westwood, who invented the look of British punk in the '70s, now owns a sprawling empire but remains a singular iconoclast.				9:00pm N/N: Handsworth Songs Film 59 min 9 - 9:59pm NRT N/N: Handsworth Songs As journalists clamber to pinpoint the cause of civil disorder in Birmingham and London, the Black Audio Film Collective invokes the past in this brilliantly and inventively assembled 1986 debut. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.						9:30pm Rose Saturday Night After Party Concert 180 min 9:30 - 12:30am Rose Saturday Night After Party Indie folk dynamo Esmé Patterson plugs in her electric guitar to rock this showcase with “non-genre” pop star Mobley and psychedelic folk enigma Skyway Man. Free for Super/Silver, Lux, Busker Band, $5 general admission.
10pm	10:15pm MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Film 95 min 10:15 - 11:50pm MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Relying on a rich trove of self-shot videos, this film charts the incendiary art and politics of Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A.		10:00pm Gimme Truth! Other 90 min 10 - 11:30pm NRT Gimme Truth! America's favorite documentary game show challenges the audience and a panel of esteemed contestants to determine truthiness. Local non-professional filmmakers attempt to fool seasoned directors by presenting their totally true or totally false two-minute docs. Hosted by Brian Babylon, a Chicago-born comic who is a frequent guest on NPR’s weekly news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!" The 2018 contestants/judges are Sierra Pettengill ("Graven Image"), Sandi Tan (Shirkers), and Chase Whiteside (América). Tech support provided by CAT. Ticket required. PRESENTED BY SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY FILMS		10:00pm Three Identical Strangers Film 96 min 10 - 11:36pm NRT Three Identical Strangers Separated at birth, Robert, Edward and David become pop-culture icons in the '80s after discovering they are identical triplets, then things get weird.			10:30pm Flight of a Bullet Film 81 min 10:30 - 11:51pm NRT Flight of a Bullet Opening on a blown-out bridge, this single-shot film finds its director, alone, embedded with a group of threatening soldiers.	10:00pm Shorts: Coffee 70 Short 70 min 10 - 11:10pm NRT Shorts: Coffee 70 In these three shorts, older men reckon with their place in society.
11pm			11:59pm BABYLON BALL Z Other 76 min 11:59 - 1:15am BABYLON BALL Z Comedian Brian Babylon records his first comedy album, and you are invited to be the studio audience. Free to Super Circle, Silver Circle, and Lux passholders; $5 Gen Admission.
12am
1am

9:30am

Jesse Auditorium

The Price of Everything

Film

98 min

9:30 - 11:08am

The Price of Everything
Modern art is now a bankable commodity, with art stars like Jeff Koons and wealthy investors succeeding wildly, while others are left in the dust.
Showtime Theater at The Blue Note

América

Film

75 min

9:30 - 10:45am
NRT

América
A colorful trio of Mexican brothers are called home to take care of their grandmother in this playful, irreverent family portrait.
The Picturehouse

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Film

76 min

9:30 - 10:46am
NRT

Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Inventing a new film language, this film fearlessly reimagines the way black lives are portrayed on screen through the stories of two young men in Hale County, Alabama.
Rhynsburger Theatre

Secret Screening Mistral

Film

81 min

9:30 - 10:51am
NRT

Secret Screening Mistral
An impressionistic portrait of an individual who reaches for glory, falls short and tries again.
The Globe

Artemio

Film

68 min

9:30 - 10:38am
NRT

Artemio
In this lushly photographed film, an Americanized mother and son return to their Mexican village in which the telephone becomes a lifeline.
Forrest Theater

Self-Portrait: Birth in 47KM

Film

101 min

9:30 - 11:11am
NRT

Self-Portrait: Birth in 47KM
Delicate scenes of village life anchor moving interviews with a survivor of the Great Famine, a subject still taboo in China.
Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

The Family

Film

106 min

9:30 - 11:16am
NRT

The Family
Young Matej just can’t seem to catch a break – but now he must rise to the occasion of being a father.

10:00am

11:45am

The Globe

Secret Screening Gale

Film

97 min

11:45 - 1:22pm
NRT

Secret Screening Gale
Fighting from within a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, a small group of committed crusaders makes a stand.

12:00pm

12:15pm

Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

António e Catarina

Film

73 min

12:15 - 1:28pm
NRT

António e Catarina
Under cover of the night, "António" and "Catarina" dance a pas de deux in this unsettling character study.

12:30pm

12:45pm

Big Ragtag

Bisbee '17

Film

118 min

12:45 - 2:43pm
NRT

Bisbee '17
Robert Greene creatively reimagines a dark chapter in labor history when organizing miners were sent packing.

1:00pm

Field Session: Rejoice

Synapses

60 min

1 - 2pm

Field Session: Rejoice
Over years of editing, both Leilah Weinraub (SHAKEDOWN) and RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) found themselves migrating away from conventional cinematic languages. In this conversation, they discuss their parallel quests to reshape documentary grammar and expand the way films view black bodies.

2:30pm

2:45pm

4:00pm

5:00pm

Rhynsburger Theatre

Shorts: Kombucha 71

Short

71 min

5 - 6:11pm

Shorts: Kombucha 71
These five shorts exhume lost histories and lives.

5:30pm

5:45pm

6:00pm

6:15pm

Rhynsburger Theatre

Q(uench) & A(nswers)

Reception

30 min

6:15 - 6:45pm

Q(uench) & A(nswers)
A convivial reception spotlighting each short film program with eponymous complimentary beverages. Attendees can ask questions one-on-one and indulge in the libations. A True/False programmer will be present at each Q(uench) & A(nswer) to introduce filmmakers and briefly facilitate discussion. Open to ticketholders of the preceeding screening as well as Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders.

6:30pm

Missouri Theatre

Of Fathers and Sons

Film

98 min

6:30 - 8:08pm
NRT

Of Fathers and Sons
A seasoned Al Qaeda sniper in Syria readies his 12-year-old to follow in his footsteps in this never-before-seen immersion into the world of radical jihadis.

7:00pm

7:30pm

Rhynsburger Theatre

Secret Screening Zephyr

Film

84 min

7:30 - 8:54pm
NRT

Secret Screening Zephyr
This convincing environmental rallying cry journeys to the center of the world's mysteries.

7:45pm

Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

Black Mother

Film

77 min

7:45 - 9:02pm
NRT

Black Mother
A spiritual journey through Jamaica, the island in the sun, a place of unparalleled resilience and beauty.

8:00pm

Cafe Berlin

Berlin Saturday Night Showcase

Concert

270 min

8 - 12:30am

Berlin Saturday Night Showcase
Tonina, pinkcaravan!, and the New Creations Brass Band join 18andCounting (Stan Chisholm) and TheOnlyEnsemble on a jam-packed bill of jazz and soul and hip-hop and everything in between. Free for Super/Silver, Lux, Busker Band, $5 general admission.

8:15pm

Big Ragtag

Combat Obscura

Film

73 min

8:15 - 9:28pm
NRT

Combat Obscura
The daily lives of Marines in Afghanistan as filmed by active-duty combat cameramen from the ultimate insider's perspective.

8:30pm

The Picturehouse

La Flor de la Vida

Film

91 min

8:30 - 10:01pm
NRT

La Flor de la Vida
Introverted Gabriella and extroverted Aldo are at a crossroads in their five-decade-old marriage.

8:45pm

Forrest Theater

SHAKEDOWN

Film

69 min

8:45 - 9:54pm
NRT

SHAKEDOWN
A raucous, joyous celebration of an underground black lesbian strip club in early 2000s Los Angeles.

9:00pm

The Globe

N/N: Handsworth Songs

Film

59 min

9 - 9:59pm
NRT

N/N: Handsworth Songs
As journalists clamber to pinpoint the cause of civil disorder in Birmingham and London, the Black Audio Film Collective invokes the past in this brilliantly and inventively assembled 1986 debut. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

9:30pm

10:00pm

10:15pm

Jesse Auditorium

MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.

Film

95 min

10:15 - 11:50pm

MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.
Relying on a rich trove of self-shot videos, this film charts the incendiary art and politics of Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A.

10:30pm

Big Ragtag

Flight of a Bullet

Film

81 min

10:30 - 11:51pm
NRT

Flight of a Bullet
Opening on a blown-out bridge, this single-shot film finds its director, alone, embedded with a group of threatening soldiers.

11:59pm

Showtime Theater at The Blue Note

BABYLON BALL Z

Other

76 min

11:59 - 1:15am

BABYLON BALL Z
Comedian Brian Babylon records his first comedy album, and you are invited to be the studio audience. Free to Super Circle, Silver Circle, and Lux passholders; $5 Gen Admission.

The Price of Everything

The Price of Everything

América

América

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Secret Screening Mistral

Secret Screening Mistral

Artemio

Artemio

Self-Portrait: Birth in 47KM

Self-Portrait: Birth in 47KM

The Family

The Family

Lovers of the Night

Lovers of the Night

The Next Guardian

The Next Guardian

Secret Screening Gale

Secret Screening Gale

Primas

Primas

Makala

Makala

Kinshasa Makambo

Kinshasa Makambo

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Combat Obscura

Combat Obscura

Shorts: Red Wine 73

Shorts: Red Wine 73

Bisbee '17

Bisbee '17

António e Catarina

António e Catarina

The Art Ramble

The Art Ramble

Field Session: Rejoice

Field Session: Rejoice

The Rider

The Rider

Love Means Zero

Love Means Zero

Playing Men

Playing Men

The Task

The Task

Taming the Horse

Taming the Horse

National Diploma

National Diploma

The Art Ramble

The Art Ramble

Crime + Punishment

Crime + Punishment

N/N: Twilight City

N/N: Twilight City

Field Session: Reflect

Field Session: Reflect

The Next Guardian

The Next Guardian

Filmmaker Fête

Filmmaker Fête

Courtyard Concert

Courtyard Concert

Shirkers

Shirkers

Bisbee '17

Bisbee '17

Shorts: Kombucha 71

Shorts: Kombucha 71

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Westwood

Westwood

Of Fathers and Sons

Of Fathers and Sons

Q(uench) & A(nswers)

Q(uench) & A(nswers)