2020 Schedule

Mar 06 Friday

	Jesse Auditorium	Missouri Theatre	Showtime Theater @ The Blue Note	The Picturehouse	Gannett Hall	The Globe	Forrest Theater	Big Ragtag	Willy Wilson @ Ragtag	Cafe Berlin	Eastside Tavern	Little Chapel @ The Picturehouse	Other
11am		11:00am The Metamorphosis of Birds Film 101 min 11 - 12:41pm NRT The Metamorphosis of Birds An epistolary love story spanning decades of marriage, six children, and an ocean.	11:15am Dick Johnson is Dead Film 89 min 11:15 - 12:44pm NRT Dick Johnson is Dead Kirsten Johnson kills her father over and over again in this black comedy that asks, What if you never had to lose the people you love? Presented by Burrell Behavioral Health	11:00am Lovemobil Film 106 min 11 - 12:46pm NRT Lovemobil Along German country roads, immigrant sex workers sit alone in dimly lit camper vans, hoping to attract clientele.	11:00am Sunless Shadows Film 74 min 11 - 12:14pm NRT Sunless Shadows Serving time for murder, five young women form a new family inside a Tehran juvenile detention center.	11:00am N/N: still/here Film 60 min 11 - 12pm NRT N/N: still/here Christopher Harris returns home to north St. Louis and creates his own cinematic language to look at its vacant spaces.	11:15am Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another Film 72 min 11:15 - 12:27pm NRT Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another A perfect, gleaming ivory tusk is fabricated by a team of expert hands in this dazzling voyage into the world of preservation.	11:30am Dope is Death Film 78 min 11:30 - 12:48pm NRT Dope is Death In 1973, the government turns to methadone and mass incarceration to combat soaring drug addiction in American cities. The Black Panther Party and the Young Lords join forces to promote an alternative, the radical use of acupuncture. With support from the Consulate General of Canada	11:00am Unskinned Film 76 min 11 - 12:16pm NRT Unskinned A Portuguese tannery employee mysteriously abandons her post, leaving co-workers to process her departure in this transfixing study of labor and beauty.
12pm
1pm						1:30pm N/N: Films of Mike Henderson Film 75 min 1:30 - 2:45pm N/N: Films of Mike Henderson Marshall, Missouri's Mike Henderson creates abstractions out of household appliances and finds radical ways to explore history in his mesmerizing short films.	1:30pm Feels Good Man Film 95 min 1:30 - 3:05pm NRT Feels Good Man The story of a little frog who gets lost in the dark web.		1:30pm Pier Kids Film 98 min 1:30 - 3:08pm NRT Pier Kids An unfiltered look at life and the families that form along the piers at the end of Christopher Street, told by three homeless queer and trans youths of color.			1:30pm Field Session: Oscillation Synapses 60 min 1:30 - 2:30pm Field Session: Oscillation Ursula Liang (Down a Dark Stairwell) and Khalik Allah (IWOW: I Walk on Water) freely alternate between journalism, photography, and cinema as they approach their subjects. The two artists will discuss their investment in exploring intersubjectivities and reshaping documentary grammar.
2pm	2:30pm Welcome to Chechnya Film 107 min 2:30 - 4:17pm Welcome to Chechnya This vital, harrowing film embeds with everyday citizens as they band together to bring LGBT+ residents of Chechnya to safety.	2:00pm The Viewing Booth Film 70 min 2 - 3:10pm The Viewing Booth An experiment that tests the limits of nonfiction images’ ability to function as evidence.	2:00pm Talking About Trees Film 93 min 2 - 3:33pm NRT Talking About Trees Following decades of government censorship, four retired filmmakers form the Sudanese Film Group and attempt to revive a deserted movie palace in this sweet and humorous ode to cinephilia.	2:30pm Mayor Film 87 min 2:30 - 3:57pm NRT Mayor Meet the mayor of Ramallah, Palestine, as he contends with provincial predicaments: potholes, holiday parties, and the occupation of his city’s land by another government’s military.	2:00pm Shorts: Rouge Short 81 min 2 - 3:21pm NRT Shorts: Rouge A vibrant suite that heightens the senses and takes the viewer on a journey of healing.			2:00pm Ridge Film 70 min 2 - 3:10pm NRT Ridge Drawing from local lore, residents of the rural town of Kvidinge, Sweden, collaborate in this magical and mysterious collection of vignettes.
3pm												3:00pm Field Session: Immersion Synapses 60 min 3 - 4pm Field Session: Immersion Marnie Ellen Hertzler (Crestone) and Mitch McCabe (“Civil War Surveillance Poems Part 1”) both draw from apocalyptic themes as they interrogate rustic communities. From thorny ethical questions to their creative processes, the directors will excavate personal meaning from their complex films.	3:25pm Q(uench) & A(nswers) Reception 45 min 3:25 - 4:10pm 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. After the shorts program in Gannett, head over to the Palmer Room in the adjoining building. Open to ticketholders of the preceeding screening, as well as Super/Silver Circle passholders.
4pm			4:45pm Time Film 93 min 4:45 - 6:18pm NRT Time Director Garrett Bradley delicately captures one family’s milestones and everyday joys amidst their monumental fight to free their father from a 60-year prison sentence.		4:30pm Catskin Film 79 min 4:30 - 5:49pm NRT Catskin A German boy and his family confront ghosts from their country's past in this slippery, mesmeric portrait.	4:00pm Seven Years in May Film 63 min 4 - 5:03pm NRT Seven Years in May On the run and away from home for more than seven years, Rafael's life-changing experience with police is restaged as he faces down his demons.	4:00pm So Late So Soon Film 70 min 4 - 5:10pm NRT So Late So Soon A half-century into their marriage, two Chicago artists look back at their lives together and contend with a never-ending series of house repairs.	4:45pm The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Film 69 min 4:45 - 5:54pm NRT The Giverny Document (Single Channel) “Do you feel safe in your body?” Ja’Tovia Gary asks black women on a sunny day in Harlem as she reflects on her own image and self worth in Claude Monet’s garden. (Plays with Reckless Eyeballing, and A Song About Love)	4:15pm That Cloud Never Left Film 66 min 4:15 - 5:21pm NRT That Cloud Never Left In the Indian village of Daspara, a lunar eclipse is approaching. The villagers recycle 35mm film reels into enchanting toys.
5pm		5:30pm Reality Bites Reception 90 min 5:30 - 7pm Reality Bites A tradition as old as the fest itself, Reality Bites is our communal breaking of bread (and other delectables) directly following the March March. No ticket required; open to Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders.		5:30pm Reality Bites Reception 90 min 5:30 - 7pm Reality Bites A tradition as old as the fest itself, Reality Bites is our communal breaking of bread (and other delectables) directly following the March March. No ticket required; open to Super/Silver Circle and Lux passholders.									5:15pm March March Other 45 min 5:15 - 6pm March March What better way to encourage the tremulous start of spring than to lead by example and march into March?
6pm						6:45pm Nofinofy Film 73 min 6:45 - 7:58pm NRT Nofinofy A Malagasy barber tends to the scalps and dreams of his clientele in this warm and tactile portrait of a community fixture.					6:00pm Eastside Friday Happy Hour Concert 120 min 6 - 8pm Eastside Friday Happy Hour Los Angeles outfit El Haru Kuroi bring their unique style of Latin jazz and Kansas City natives NuBlvckCity bring their energetic brand of neo-soul to this lively Friday evening bill. Free & open to the public; donations encouraged.
7pm	7:00pm Some Kind of Heaven Film 81 min 7 - 8:21pm NRT Some Kind of Heaven America’s largest retirement community, The Villages is where people come to live. Presented by Fresh Ideas	7:15pm Boys State Film 109 min 7:15 - 9:04pm NRT Boys State The Lone Star State’s best and brightest teenage boys assemble for a week of civics and shenanigans as they compete for the title of Texas Boys State governor. Presented by Veterans United Home Loans	7:15pm The Mole Agent Film 90 min 7:15 - 8:45pm NRT The Mole Agent A kindhearted widower infiltrates a Chilean retirement home to investigate rumors of neglect in this compassionate and clever detective story.	7:00pm A Machine to Live In Film 87 min 7 - 8:27pm NRT A Machine to Live In In Brasília, utopian geometry, monumental myth-making, and alien-centered architecture present concrete plans for their country’s crumbling foundation	7:00pm Shorts: Bock Short 71 min 7 - 8:11pm Shorts: Bock Artists from across the globe locate radical and ingenious ways to interrogate power structures.		7:00pm Crestone Film 73 min 7 - 8:13pm NRT Crestone As the world burns, millennials descend on Crestone, Colorado, to grow weed, spit bars, and fill their bellies with bologna.	7:30pm IWOW: I Walk On Water Film 200 min 7:30 - 10:50pm NRT IWOW: I Walk On Water Returning to the nocturnal streets of East Harlem, a groundbreaking portrait artist evolves his practice in this work of beauty, invention, and vulnerability.	7:00pm Down a Dark Stairwell Film 92 min 7 - 8:32pm NRT Down a Dark Stairwell Set in motion by a tragic police-involved shooting, two communities of color navigate fraught perceptions of injustice, inequality, and discrimination in the eyes of the law.
8pm										8:00pm Berlin Friday Night Showcase Concert 210 min 8 - 11:30pm Berlin Friday Night Showcase Modern jazz great Angel Bat Dawid (Chicago) is joined by fellow experimentalists Thanya Iyer (Montreal), Abstract Black (Nashville) and Saltbreaker (Michigan) in this dreamy avant-garde showcase. Free for Super/Silver, Lux, & Stay Up Late passholders, general admission is $8 in advance, $10 day-of show.			8:15pm Q(uench) & A(nswers) Reception 45 min 8:15 - 9pm 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. After the shorts program in Gannett, head over to the Palmer Room in the adjoining building. Open to ticketholders of the preceeding screening, as well as Super/Silver Circle passholders.
9pm				9:30pm Talking About Trees Film 93 min 9:30 - 11:03pm NRT Talking About Trees Following decades of government censorship, four retired filmmakers form the Sudanese Film Group and attempt to revive a deserted movie palace in this sweet and humorous ode to cinephilia.	9:15pm Aswang Film 85 min 9:15 - 10:40pm NRT Aswang A fog of state-sanctioned violence hovers over the Philippines where fear and death haunt the lives of a journalist, a coroner, and a motherless child.	9:00pm Collective Film 109 min 9 - 10:49pm NRT Collective In the aftermath of a horrific and deadly nightclub fire, Romanian bureaucrats and journalists fight tenaciously to bring integrity to broken systems. Presented by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy	9:15pm Ridge Film 70 min 9:15 - 10:25pm NRT Ridge Drawing from local lore, residents of the rural town of Kvidinge, Sweden, collaborate in this magical and mysterious collection of vignettes.		9:30pm małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore Film 91 min 9:30 - 11:01pm NRT małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore Sky Hopinka’s debut feature is a meditative journey through the lush Pacific Northwest, guided by the Chinookan origin-of-death myth.				9:30pm Campfire Stories Other 75 min 9:30 - 10:45pm NRT Campfire Stories Gather round the hearth and come hear some stellar storytellers spin yarns in our cozy forest clearing. Presented by National Geographic Documentary Films
10pm	10:00pm Crip Camp Film 102 min 10 - 11:42pm Crip Camp A rambunctious story about the fight for disability rights in America and the Summer of Love when it all began. Presented by Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital	10:15pm Feels Good Man Film 95 min 10:15 - 11:50pm Feels Good Man The story of a little frog who gets lost in the dark web.											10:30pm Short Circuit Party Party 120 min 10:30 - 12:30am Short Circuit Party In honor of True/False’s shorts filmmakers we host an electric celebration in which they hold court (or in this case, drink tickets). Spark up a conversation and maybe if you ask nicely they'll offer you a round. Open to Supers, Silvers, and Guests/Artists
11pm			11:00pm The Blue Note After-party with Dam-Funk Concert 120 min 11 - 1am The Blue Note After-party with Dam-Funk A T(ruly)/F(unked) out affair featuring fest favorite and the preeminent purveyor of modern funk music Dam-Funk DJ’ing the dance floor into a frenzy. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Lux, & Stay Up Late passholders, $10 general admission.
12am
1am

11:00am

Missouri Theatre

The Metamorphosis of Birds

Film

101 min

11 - 12:41pm
NRT

The Metamorphosis of Birds
An epistolary love story spanning decades of marriage, six children, and an ocean.
The Picturehouse

Lovemobil

Film

106 min

11 - 12:46pm
NRT

Lovemobil
Along German country roads, immigrant sex workers sit alone in dimly lit camper vans, hoping to attract clientele.
Gannett Hall

Sunless Shadows

Film

74 min

11 - 12:14pm
NRT

Sunless Shadows
Serving time for murder, five young women form a new family inside a Tehran juvenile detention center.
The Globe

N/N: still/here

Film

60 min

11 - 12pm
NRT

N/N: still/here
Christopher Harris returns home to north St. Louis and creates his own cinematic language to look at its vacant spaces.
Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

Unskinned

Film

76 min

11 - 12:16pm
NRT

Unskinned
A Portuguese tannery employee mysteriously abandons her post, leaving co-workers to process her departure in this transfixing study of labor and beauty.

11:15am

11:30am

Big Ragtag

Dope is Death

Film

78 min

11:30 - 12:48pm
NRT

Dope is Death
In 1973, the government turns to methadone and mass incarceration to combat soaring drug addiction in American cities. The Black Panther Party and the Young Lords join forces to promote an alternative, the radical use of acupuncture. With support from the Consulate General of Canada

1:30pm

2:00pm

2:30pm

3:00pm

Little Chapel @ The Picturehouse

Field Session: Immersion

Synapses

60 min

3 - 4pm

Field Session: Immersion
Marnie Ellen Hertzler (Crestone) and Mitch McCabe (“Civil War Surveillance Poems Part 1”) both draw from apocalyptic themes as they interrogate rustic communities. From thorny ethical questions to their creative processes, the directors will excavate personal meaning from their complex films.

3:25pm

Q(uench) & A(nswers)

Reception

45 min

3:25 - 4:10pm

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. After the shorts program in Gannett, head over to the Palmer Room in the adjoining building. Open to ticketholders of the preceeding screening, as well as Super/Silver Circle passholders.

4:00pm

4:15pm

Willy Wilson @ Ragtag

That Cloud Never Left

Film

66 min

4:15 - 5:21pm
NRT

That Cloud Never Left
In the Indian village of Daspara, a lunar eclipse is approaching. The villagers recycle 35mm film reels into enchanting toys.

4:30pm

Gannett Hall

Catskin

Film

79 min

4:30 - 5:49pm
NRT

Catskin
A German boy and his family confront ghosts from their country's past in this slippery, mesmeric portrait.

4:45pm

5:15pm

March March

Other

45 min

5:15 - 6pm

March March
What better way to encourage the tremulous start of spring than to lead by example and march into March?

5:30pm

6:00pm

Eastside Tavern

Eastside Friday Happy Hour

Concert

120 min

6 - 8pm

Eastside Friday Happy Hour
Los Angeles outfit El Haru Kuroi bring their unique style of Latin jazz and Kansas City natives NuBlvckCity bring their energetic brand of neo-soul to this lively Friday evening bill. Free & open to the public; donations encouraged.

6:45pm

The Globe

Nofinofy

Film

73 min

6:45 - 7:58pm
NRT

Nofinofy
A Malagasy barber tends to the scalps and dreams of his clientele in this warm and tactile portrait of a community fixture.

7:00pm

7:15pm

9:15pm

9:30pm

10:00pm

Jesse Auditorium

Crip Camp

Film

102 min

10 - 11:42pm

Crip Camp
A rambunctious story about the fight for disability rights in America and the Summer of Love when it all began. Presented by Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital

10:15pm

Missouri Theatre

Feels Good Man

Film

95 min

10:15 - 11:50pm

Feels Good Man
The story of a little frog who gets lost in the dark web.

10:30pm

Short Circuit Party

Party

120 min

10:30 - 12:30am

Short Circuit Party
In honor of True/False’s shorts filmmakers we host an electric celebration in which they hold court (or in this case, drink tickets). Spark up a conversation and maybe if you ask nicely they'll offer you a round. Open to Supers, Silvers, and Guests/Artists

11:00pm

Showtime Theater @ The Blue Note

The Blue Note After-party with Dam-Funk

Concert

120 min

11 - 1am

The Blue Note After-party with Dam-Funk
A T(ruly)/F(unked) out affair featuring fest favorite and the preeminent purveyor of modern funk music Dam-Funk DJ’ing the dance floor into a frenzy. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Lux, & Stay Up Late passholders, $10 general admission.

The Metamorphosis of Birds

The Metamorphosis of Birds

Dick Johnson is Dead

Dick Johnson is Dead

Lovemobil

Lovemobil

Sunless Shadows

Sunless Shadows

N/N: still/here

N/N: still/here

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

Dope is Death

Dope is Death

Unskinned

Unskinned

N/N: Films of Mike Henderson

N/N: Films of Mike Henderson

Feels Good Man

Feels Good Man

Pier Kids

Pier Kids

Field Session: Oscillation

Field Session: Oscillation

Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

The Viewing Booth

The Viewing Booth

Talking About Trees

Talking About Trees

Mayor

Mayor

Shorts: Rouge

Shorts: Rouge

Ridge

Ridge

Field Session: Immersion

Field Session: Immersion

Q(uench) & A(nswers)

Q(uench) & A(nswers)

Time

Time

Catskin

Catskin

Seven Years in May

Seven Years in May

So Late So Soon

So Late So Soon

The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

That Cloud Never Left

That Cloud Never Left

Reality Bites

Reality Bites

Reality Bites

Reality Bites

March March

March March

Nofinofy

Nofinofy

Eastside Friday Happy Hour

Eastside Friday Happy Hour

Some Kind of Heaven

Some Kind of Heaven

Boys State

Boys State

The Mole Agent

The Mole Agent

A Machine to Live In

A Machine to Live In

Shorts: Bock

Shorts: Bock

Crestone

Crestone

IWOW: I Walk On Water

IWOW: I Walk On Water

Down a Dark Stairwell

Down a Dark Stairwell

Berlin Friday Night Showcase

Berlin Friday Night Showcase