Wednesday, Feb 27 • Thursday, Feb 28 • Friday, Mar 1 • Saturday, Mar 2 • Sunday, Mar 3

Wednesday, Feb 27

  • 10:00pm
    Eastside Showcase

    Concert · 180 min · 10 – 1am · Eastside Tavern
    The Eastside Tavern hosts a rockin’ kickoff show featuring Rip Rap, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, and Cloud Dog. Doors at 9pm. Show at 10pm. $5 cover.

Thursday, Feb 28

  • 4:30pm
    Dirty Wars

    Film · 87 min · 4:30 – 5:57pm · The Blue Note
    From dusty huts to seedy motels to the halls of Congress, dogged investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill tracks down the murders of an Afghan family.
  • 4:30pm
    Village at the End of the World

    Film · 91 min · 4:30 – 6:01pm · Forrest Theater
    59 residents eke out a living in a tiny village on the northwest shore of Greenland. But at least they have Facebook.
  • 5:00pm
    The Fall

    Film · 110 min · 5 – 6:50pm · Little Ragtag
    An extraordinary piece of personal and political filmmaking, shot by a Brit in and around New York in the late ‘60s, The Fall eyes America with a psychedelic kaleidoscope.
  • 5:30pm
    The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

    Film · 97 min · 5:30 – 7:07pm · Big Ragtag
    Gurchiani puts out a casting call, and locates mostly young people endeavoring to find their place in a post-Soviet world.
  • 6:00pm
    The Jubilee

    Reception · 75 min · 6 – 7:15pm · Missouri Theatre
    Our traditional fancypants gala at the Missouri Theatre.
  • 7:00pm
    True/Folk Thursday Happy Hour Showcase

    Concert · 150 min · 7 – 9:30pm · Blue Fugue
    Blue Fugue James Miska & Lake Mary, Ruth Acuff, and Jack Grelle & the Johnson Family will kick off your evening with a bang, a beer and some really sweet songwriting. Doors at 6:00pm. Show at 7:00pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
  • 7:00pm
    The Expedition to the End of the World

    Film · 90 min · 7 – 8:30pm · The Blue Note
    Mix together artists and scientists on a wooden schooner sailing to remote Greenland and the results are alternately absurd and sublime.
  • 7:00pm
    Secret Screening Orange

    Film · 93 min · 7 – 8:33pm · Forrest Theater
    A cadre of separatists square off against an unsympathetic city.
  • 7:30pm
    The Last Station

    Film · 90 min · 7:30 – 9pm · Little Ragtag
    Cut off from the rest of the world, retirees in Chile spice up their daily life any way they can, including the launch of a nostalgic radio station.
  • 7:30pm
    Stories We Tell

    Film · 112 min · 7:30 – 9:22pm · Missouri Theatre
    Actress and director Sarah Polley dredges up family secrets in this exceptionally playful and inventive film.
  • 8:00pm
    I Am Breathing

    Film · 89 min · 8 – 9:29pm · Big Ragtag
    This jaw-dropping, humanistic work is about Neil Platt, a Scottish architect who’s been granted a vision of his own demise.
  • 9:30pm
    Secret Screening Green

    Film · 88 min · 9:30 – 10:58pm · The Blue Note
    Sex sells, but who’s buying?
  • 9:30pm
    Toast/False Thursday Busker Showcase

    Concert · 210 min · 9:30 – 1am · Cafe Berlin
    Cafe Berlin Flux Bikes, Paul Rucker, Syna So Pro, and Dark Blue Dark Green will excite the crowd with their experimental music. Doors at 9pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
  • 9:30pm
    Winter, Go Away!

    Film · 89 min · 9:30 – 10:59pm · Forrest Theater
    With hand-held immediacy, this film captures the political tumult of modern Russia – the consolidation of power by Vladimir Putin, the youthful energy of the dissenters and the frustrations of those caught in between.
  • 10:00pm
    The Captain and His Pirate

    Film · 82 min · 10 – 11:22pm · Little Ragtag
    Caught in a larger game, an eloquent pirate leader and a troubled ship captain become a surprisingly close odd couple.
  • 10:30pm
    Computer Chess

    Film · 92 min · 10:30 – 12:02am · Big Ragtag
    In 1980, before geek was chic, a clutch of brainiac programmers converge in order to change the world.

Friday, Mar 1

  • 10:30am
    The Revolution Will Be Criticized: Do Critics Miss the Boat on Nonfiction FIlmmaking?

    Conversation · 75 min · 10:30 – 11:45am · Odd Fellows Lodge
    Documentary filmmaking has evolved in the past decade, but mainstream film criticism appears to hold an old lens to its eye in describing contemporary non-fiction film. This often results in the best work being ignored or misunderstood. What can be done to create a new critical language?
  • 12:00pm
    Dirty Wars

    Film · 87 min · 12 – 1:27pm · The Blue Note
    From dusty huts to seedy motels to the halls of Congress, dogged investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill tracks down the murders of an Afghan family.
  • 12:00pm
    The Moo Man

    Film · 98 min · 12 – 1:38pm · Forrest Theater
    A British farmer and his 12-year-old cow, Ida, will steal your heart as you watch their tender relationship redefine the phrase ‘man’s best friend.’
  • 12:00pm
    Sleepless Nights

    Film · 128 min · 12 – 2:08pm · Little Ragtag
    A triumph of political art, journalism and confrontational cinema, set in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • 12:00pm
    Secret Screening Silver

    Film · 92 min · 12 – 1:32pm · The Picturehouse
    One man’s journey towards self-improvement takes him back to the turn of the 20th century.
  • 12:30pm
    Lost & Found (shorts)

    Film · 75 min · 12:30 – 1:45pm · Big Ragtag
    Five golden shorts take us from Finland to Eritrea and beyond in hot pursuit of the elusive.
  • 12:30pm
    Blackfish

    Film · 82 min · 12:30 – 1:52pm · The Globe
    Through eye-popping footage and thorough journalism, we learn about the sordid underbelly of keeping orcas in captivity.
  • 12:30pm
    Revolving Doors

    Conversation · 75 min · 12:30 – 1:45pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    Directors of narrative features are increasingly telling non-fiction stories. What lessons from the feature world do these directors bring into their documentaries? What can the world of narrative features teach nonfiction filmmakers?
  • 2:00pm
    Sparky’s Showcase

    Concert · 120 min · 2 – 4pm · Sparky’s
    It’s opening day at the ice cream shop! Celebrate with a tasty scoop and some traditional American and Mexican folk tunes by Meeyoo and La Operación Jarocha.
  • 2:30pm
    Northern Light

    Film · 104 min · 2:30 – 4:14pm · Big Ragtag
    A work of cinematic art that finds its inspiration in the white-on-white vistas of northern Michigan and the neon explosion of snowmobile racing.
  • 2:30pm
    No

    Film · 118 min · 2:30 – 4:28pm · The Blue Note
    Oscar-nominated film that recreates the 1988 Chilean referendum on ending Pinochet’s rule. Stars Gael Garcia Bernal.
  • 2:30pm
    Secret Screening Gold

    Film · 90 min · 2:30 – 4pm · Forrest Theater
    A sweet, sentimental portrait of a group of aging, yet still spry, artists
  • 2:30pm
    Military Secrets: Filming the Armed Forces

    Conversation · 75 min · 2:30 – 3:45pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    Among the most challenging worlds to puncture is the military with its famously secretive layers. Embedded or not, journalists and filmmakers have to navigate the ironclad chain of command.
  • 2:30pm
    Secret Screening Blue

    Film · 75 min · 2:30 – 3:45pm · The Picturehouse
    Dramatically reconstructs a shocking narrative and attempts to solve the mystery at its core.
  • 3:00pm
    Cutie and the Boxer

    Film · 81 min · 3 – 4:21pm · The Globe
    Ushio and Noriko are aging bohemian artists whose dedication, creativity and fierce tenacity make for a unique and enduring love story.
  • 3:00pm
    Documenting the Southern Wild

    Event · 75 min · 3 – 4:15pm · Little Ragtag
    Join co-director Bill Ross and the Court 13 contingent (Dan Janvey, Michael Gottwald and Josh Penn) for a peek behind the scenes at Beasts of the Southern Wild and other great films.
  • 5:00pm
    Sleepless Nights

    Film · 128 min · 5 – 7:08pm · Forrest Theater
    A triumph of political art, journalism and confrontational cinema, set in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • 5:00pm
    The Ascent of Man (shorts)

    Film · 91 min · 5 – 6:31pm · Little Ragtag
    The evolutionary model is featured in this stunning, four-film collection.
  • 5:00pm
    Pandora’s Promise

    Film · 87 min · 5 – 6:27pm · The Picturehouse
    An elegant argument in favor of nuclear energy and a gauntlet thrown for environmentalists to reexamine their core beliefs.
  • 5:15pm
    March March

    Event · 30 min · 5:15 – 5:45pm · Boone County Courthouse Square
    What could be better than a Marching band parade on the first day of March? We always like to bring in this month like a lion and 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
    After Tiller

    Film · 88 min · 5:30 – 6:58pm · Big Ragtag
    Humanizing without lionizing, this film features intimate access to some of our nation’s most controversial figures – the four doctors in the United States who perform late-term abortions.
  • 5:30pm
    The Garden of Eden

    Film · 94 min · 5:30 – 7:04pm · The Globe
    Zionist pioneers, disenfranchised Arabs, and many others frequent a swimming hole in Israel, providing a unique portal into a complex country.
  • 5:30pm
    Reality Bites

    Reception · 90 min · 5:30 – 7pm · Missouri Theatre
    Sample tasty appetizers from Columbia’s finest restaurants in the Missouri Theatre lobby.
  • 6:30pm
    The Captain and His Pirate

    Film · 82 min · 6:30 – 7:52pm · The Blue Note
    Caught in a larger game, an eloquent pirate leader and a troubled ship captain become a surprisingly close odd couple.
  • 7:00pm
    True/Folk Friday Happy Hour Showcase

    Concert · 150 min · 7 – 9:30pm · Blue Fugue
    Blue Fugue Dubb Nubb, The Onions and Anonymous Choir will fill up the Fugue with harmonies to last the whole weekend. Doors at 6:00pm. Show at 7:00pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
  • 7:00pm
    Stories We Tell

    Film · 112 min · 7 – 8:52pm · Jesse Auditorium
    Actress and director Sarah Polley dredges up family secrets in this exceptionally playful and inventive film.
  • 7:30pm
    David Holzman’s Diary

    Film · 74 min · 7:30 – 8:44pm · Little Ragtag
    A groundbreaking parody of cinema-vérité which presciently foresaw the Youtube personal monologues of today.
  • 7:30pm
    Manhunt

    Film · 100 min · 7:30 – 9:10pm · Missouri Theatre
    A thriller that reexamines the hunt for Bin Laden and casts the women who worked as CIA information specialists as its unsung heroes.
  • 8:00pm
    Who Is Dayani Cristal?

    Film · 80 min · 8 – 9:20pm · Big Ragtag
    A mystery unfolds on the US/Mexico border when a body turns up identified only by a tattoo that says “Dayani Cristal.”
  • 8:00pm
    Boys & Their Toys (shorts)

    Film · 80 min · 8 – 9:20pm · Forrest Theater
    Whether hunting, crushing cars, roping cows, flying helicopters, or probing internal organs, men are plain obsessive.
  • 8:00pm
    Secret Screening Red

    Film · 85 min · 8 – 9:25pm · The Picturehouse
    A group of artists rebel against an oppressive regime.
  • 8:30pm
    These Birds Walk

    Film · 76 min · 8:30 – 9:46pm · The Globe
    A gorgeous, intimate and tender portrait of life in a Pakistani orphanage.
  • 9:15pm
    Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer

    Film · 86 min · 9:15 – 10:41pm · The Blue Note
    The true story of the world’s most famous art agitators.
  • 9:30pm
    Toast/False Friday Busker Showcase

    Concert · 210 min · 9:30 – 1am · Cafe Berlin
    Cafe Berlin The Flood Brothers, Yva Las Vegass, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, and The Hooten Hallers promise a raw and raucous energetic evening. Doors at 9pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
  • 9:30pm
    Campfire Stories

    Event · 75 min · 9:30 – 10:45pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    Join us at the Odd Fellows Lodge as eight filmmakers gather around a “campfire” to swap tales of the scene that got away
  • 9:45pm
    Mojo’s Showcase

    Concert · 210 min · 9:45 – 1:15am · Mojo’s
    Mojo’s hosts a special two band showcase featuring a Hawk and a Hacksaw and David Wax Museum. Doors at 8:30pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders, $6 for other passholders, $10 general admission.
  • 10:00pm
    Secret Screening Green

    Film · 88 min · 10 – 11:28pm · Forrest Theater
    Sex sells, but who’s buying?
  • 10:00pm
    The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

    Film · 97 min · 10 – 11:37pm · Little Ragtag
    Gurchiani puts out a casting call, and locates mostly young people endeavoring to find their place in a post-Soviet world.
  • 10:00pm
    Crash Reel

    Film · 108 min · 10 – 11:48pm · Missouri Theatre
    Brotherly love and family loyalty provide the grace notes in the rise and fall of one of the greatest snowboarders in the world.
  • 10:00pm
    @CTION! Party

    Party · 180 min · 10 – 1am · Tonic
    The now-legendary Friday night party held at a downtown nightclub, featuring DJ MNDR and DJ Rat & Underdog
  • 10:30pm
    The Institute

    Film · 91 min · 10:30 – 12:01am · Big Ragtag
    As a mysterious alternate-reality game spills onto the streets of San Francisco; its participants struggle to discern the real world from the construct.
  • 11:30pm
    Mucca Pazza!

    Concert · 90 min · 11:30 – 1am · The Blue Note
    Mucca Pazza returns to truly celebrate the festival anniversary with a late night show so big that it is free to all of our passholders. Doors at 11:15pm. Show at 11:45pm. Free to all passholders. $10 general admission.

Saturday, Mar 2

  • 9:00am
    True Life Run

    Event · 60 min · 9 – 10am · Flat Branch Park
    A bright-and-early tradition at T/F, the True Life Run challenges all runners and walkers to start Saturday, March 2 with a mad dash through the streets of downtown Columbia. Registration required at the run or in advance online.
  • 10:00am
    The Act of Killing

    Film · 115 min · 10 – 11:55am · The Blue Note
    Boastful Indonesian thugs with a genocidal history recreate their past deeds in this landmark film championed by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.
  • 10:00am
    Pandora’s Promise

    Film · 87 min · 10 – 11:27am · Forrest Theater
    An elegant argument in favor of nuclear energy and a gauntlet thrown for environmentalists to reexamine their core beliefs.
  • 10:00am
    No

    Film · 118 min · 10 – 11:58am · Jesse Auditorium
    Oscar-nominated film that recreates the 1988 Chilean referendum on ending Pinochet’s rule. Stars Gael Garcia Bernal.
  • 10:00am
    Secret Screening Blue

    Film · 75 min · 10 – 11:15am · Little Ragtag
    Dramatically reconstructs a shocking narrative and attempts to solve the mystery at its core.
  • 10:30am
    Boys & Their Toys (shorts)

    Film · 80 min · 10:30 – 11:50am · Big Ragtag
    Whether hunting, crushing cars, roping cows, flying helicopters, or probing internal organs, men are plain obsessive.
  • 10:30am
    Secret Screening Gold

    Film · 90 min · 10:30 – 12pm · The Globe
    A sweet, sentimental portrait of a group of aging, yet still spry, artists
  • 10:30am
    Blackfish

    Film · 82 min · 10:30 – 11:52am · Missouri Theatre
    Through eye-popping footage and thorough journalism, we learn about the sordid underbelly of keeping orcas in captivity.
  • 10:30am
    Docs in the Land of the Short Attention Span

    Conversation · 75 min · 10:30 – 11:45am · Odd Fellows Lodge
    Can long-form documentary find a home with an ADD Internet audience? How can documentary filmmakers take full advantage of direct interactivity with their audiences? Can good storytelling happen when the narrative controls are in the hand of the viewer? A wave of web-native documentaries are grappling with these questions, but this is clearly uncharted territory for most filmmakers.
  • 11:00am
    Winter, Go Away!

    Film · 89 min · 11 – 12:29pm · The Picturehouse
    With hand-held immediacy, this film captures the political tumult of modern Russia – the consolidation of power by Vladimir Putin, the youthful energy of the dissenters and the frustrations of those caught in between.
  • 11:45am
    The Speculative Stroll

    Event · 30 min · 11:45 – 12:15pm · Box Office
    Free-wheeling raconteur Speed Levitch, featured in the film “The Cruise,” accompanied by aide-de-camp Gabriel Williams, gives us a free tour of Columbia that introduces us to a city we didn’t know existed. Starts from the T/F Box Office.
  • 12:00pm
    Secret Screening Silver

    Film · 92 min · 12 – 1:32pm · Little Ragtag
    One man’s journey towards self-improvement takes him back to the turn of the 20th century.
  • 12:30pm
    Sleepless Nights

    Film · 128 min · 12:30 – 2:38pm · Big Ragtag
    A triumph of political art, journalism and confrontational cinema, set in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War.
  • 12:30pm
    The Last Station

    Film · 90 min · 12:30 – 2pm · Forrest Theater
    Cut off from the rest of the world, retirees in Chile spice up their daily life any way they can, including the launch of a nostalgic radio station.
  • 1:00pm
    Who Is Dayani Cristal?

    Film · 80 min · 1 – 2:20pm · The Blue Note
    A mystery unfolds on the US/Mexico border when a body turns up identified only by a tattoo that says “Dayani Cristal.”
  • 1:00pm
    Northern Light

    Film · 104 min · 1 – 2:44pm · The Globe
    A work of cinematic art that finds its inspiration in the white-on-white vistas of northern Michigan and the neon explosion of snowmobile racing.
  • 1:00pm
    Crash Reel

    Film · 108 min · 1 – 2:48pm · Jesse Auditorium
    Brotherly love and family loyalty provide the grace notes in the rise and fall of one of the greatest snowboarders in the world.
  • 1:00pm
    The Gatekeepers

    Film · 97 min · 1 – 2:37pm · Missouri Theatre
    This Oscar-nominated film provides a startling inside look at Israel’s super-secretive Shin Bet intelligence service.
  • 1:00pm
    Strongmen and Dissidents: Filming in the Former Soviet Union

    Conversation · 75 min · 1 – 2:15pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    With omnipotent leaders such as Putin and Lukashenko, Eastern Bloc countries both provide fertile material and make steep demands for documentarians.
  • 1:30pm
    These Birds Walk

    Film · 76 min · 1:30 – 2:46pm · The Picturehouse
    A gorgeous, intimate and tender portrait of life in a Pakistani orphanage.
  • 2:00pm
    Maude Vintage Showcase

    Concert · 120 min · 2 – 4pm · Maude Vintage
    Venture into Maude Vintage for a showcase of instrumental world music featuring Hema, Prahlad, and Nathaniel Braddock. Show at 2:00 pm Donations accepted.
  • 2:30pm
    The Speculative Stroll

    Event · 30 min · 2:30 – 3pm · Box Office
    Free-wheeling raconteur Speed Levitch, featured in the film “The Cruise,” accompanied by aide-de-camp Gabriel Williams, gives us a free tour of Columbia that introduces us to a city we didn’t know existed. Starts from the T/F Box Office.
  • 2:30pm
    Secret Screening Red

    Film · 85 min · 2:30 – 3:55pm · Little Ragtag
    A group of artists rebel against an oppressive regime.
  • 3:00pm
    The Ascent of Man (shorts)

    Film · 91 min · 3 – 4:31pm · Forrest Theater
    The evolutionary model is featured in this stunning, four-film collection.
  • 3:00pm
    DIY or DIE! Do-It-Yourself as a Way of Life

    Conversation · 75 min · 3 – 4:15pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    The DIY ethic inspired the 10th edition of True/False, and is reflected around every corner of the festival. This panel traverses DIY film, music and art, complete with a field trip to a soon-to-be-demolished local DIY site.
  • 3:30pm
    The Creative Treatment of Reality

    Event · 75 min · 3:30 – 4:45pm · Big Ragtag
    Jon Murray, co-creator of The Real World, talks about the rise of Reality TV and its relationship to nonfiction filmmaking.
  • 3:30pm
    After Tiller

    Film · 88 min · 3:30 – 4:58pm · The Blue Note
    Humanizing without lionizing, this film features intimate access to some of our nation’s most controversial figures – the four doctors in the United States who perform late-term abortions.
  • 3:30pm
    The Moo Man

    Film · 98 min · 3:30 – 5:08pm · The Globe
    A British farmer and his 12-year-old cow, Ida, will steal your heart as you watch their tender relationship redefine the phrase ‘man’s best friend.’
  • 3:30pm
    Village at the End of the World

    Film · 91 min · 3:30 – 5:01pm · Missouri Theatre
    59 residents eke out a living in a tiny village on the northwest shore of Greenland. But at least they have Facebook.
  • 3:30pm
    I Am Breathing

    Film · 89 min · 3:30 – 4:59pm · The Picturehouse
    This jaw-dropping, humanistic work is about Neil Platt, a Scottish architect who’s been granted a vision of his own demise.
  • 4:00pm
    Manhunt

    Film · 100 min · 4 – 5:40pm · Jesse Auditorium
    A thriller that reexamines the hunt for Bin Laden and casts the women who worked as CIA information specialists as its unsung heroes.
  • 4:00pm
    Filmmaker Fête

    Party · 120 min · 4 – 6pm · PS: Gallery
    PS:Gallery, on Walnut Street, hosts this year’s banquet in honor of our visiting filmmakers, catered by Sycamore.
  • 5:00pm
    Boys & Their Toys (shorts)

    Film · 80 min · 5 – 6:20pm · Little Ragtag
    Whether hunting, crushing cars, roping cows, flying helicopters, or probing internal organs, men are plain obsessive.
  • 5:30pm
    Leviathan

    Film · 87 min · 5:30 – 6:57pm · Big Ragtag
    This True Vision Award honoree is operatic, immersive filmmaking that conveys, with full sensory overload, life on a commercial fishing boat.
  • 5:30pm
    Lost & Found (shorts)

    Film · 75 min · 5:30 – 6:45pm · Forrest Theater
    Five golden shorts take us from Finland to Eritrea and beyond in hot pursuit of the elusive.
  • 6:00pm
    Secret Screening Green

    Film · 88 min · 6 – 7:28pm · The Blue Note
    Sex sells, but who’s buying?
  • 6:00pm
    The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear

    Film · 97 min · 6 – 7:37pm · The Globe
    Gurchiani puts out a casting call, and locates mostly young people endeavoring to find their place in a post-Soviet world.
  • 6:00pm
    Twenty Feet From Stardom

    Film · 89 min · 6 – 7:29pm · Missouri Theatre
    Lifts the curtains on the world of backup singers and reveals the wonderful voices you’ve been hearing your whole life, but never noticed.
  • 6:00pm
    The Expedition to the End of the World

    Film · 90 min · 6 – 7:30pm · The Picturehouse
    Mix together artists and scientists on a wooden schooner sailing to remote Greenland and the results are alternately absurd and sublime.
  • 6:30pm
    Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

    Film · 79 min · 6:30 – 7:49pm · Jesse Auditorium
    This year’s True Life Fund film tells the story of Tim Hetherington (Restrepo), a combat photographer extraordinaire, who bore witness to the personal stories too often lost in the fog of war.
  • 7:00pm
    True/Folk Saturday Happy Hour Showcase

    Concert · 150 min · 7 – 9:30pm · Blue Fugue
    Blue Fugue Lizzie Wright Super Space Ship, Cindy Woolf & Mark Bilyeu, and Les Trois Coups will create a world of delight in three dynamic sets. Doors at 6:00pm. Show at 7:00pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
  • 7:00pm
    The Act of Killing

    Film · 115 min · 7 – 8:55pm · Little Ragtag
    Boastful Indonesian thugs with a genocidal history recreate their past deeds in this landmark film championed by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.
  • 7:30pm
    The Garden of Eden

    Film · 94 min · 7:30 – 9:04pm · Forrest Theater
    Zionist pioneers, disenfranchised Arabs, and many others frequent a swimming hole in Israel, providing a unique portal into a complex country.
  • 8:00pm
    David Holzman’s Diary

    Film · 74 min · 8 – 9:14pm · Big Ragtag
    A groundbreaking parody of cinema-vérité which presciently foresaw the Youtube personal monologues of today.
  • 8:30pm
    Computer Chess

    Film · 92 min · 8:30 – 10:02pm · The Globe
    In 1980, before geek was chic, a clutch of brainiac programmers converge in order to change the world.
  • 8:30pm
    Cutie and the Boxer

    Film · 81 min · 8:30 – 9:51pm · Missouri Theatre
    Ushio and Noriko are aging bohemian artists whose dedication, creativity and fierce tenacity make for a unique and enduring love story.
  • 8:30pm
    Secret Screening Orange

    Film · 93 min · 8:30 – 10:03pm · The Picturehouse
    A cadre of separatists square off against an unsympathetic city.
  • 9:00pm
    Dirty Wars

    Film · 87 min · 9 – 10:27pm · Jesse Auditorium
    From dusty huts to seedy motels to the halls of Congress, dogged investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill tracks down the murders of an Afghan family.
  • 9:30pm
    Gimme Truth!

    Event · 90 min · 9:30 – 11pm · The Blue Note
    See America’s favorite documentary game show, as you decide whether films are true or false.
  • 9:30pm
    Toast/False Saturday Busker Showcase

    Concert · 210 min · 9:30 – 1am · Cafe Berlin
    Cafe Berlin Mountain Animation, Yes Ma’am, Toughcats, and Run On Sentence will strum, pluck, kick and whistle your night away. Doors at 9pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle, Silver Circle, Lux and Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
  • 9:45pm
    Mojo’s A-Go-Go

    Concert · 180 min · 9:45 – 12:45am · Mojo’s
    Stomp out a day’s documentaries at Mojo’s. This show features Husk, Hott Lunch, and So Many Dynamos. Doors at 8:30pm. Show at 9:30pm. Free for Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders, $6 for other passholders, $10 general admission.
  • 10:00pm
    Blackfish

    Film · 82 min · 10 – 11:22pm · Forrest Theater
    Through eye-popping footage and thorough journalism, we learn about the sordid underbelly of keeping orcas in captivity.
  • 10:00pm
    Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer

    Film · 86 min · 10 – 11:26pm · Little Ragtag
    The true story of the world’s most famous art agitators.
  • 10:30pm
    Secret Screening Red

    Film · 85 min · 10:30 – 11:55pm · Big Ragtag
    A group of artists rebel against an oppressive regime.

Sunday, Mar 3

  • 9:30am
    The Weird Wake-Up Breakfast

    Reception · 45 min · 9:30 – 10:15am · Odd Fellows Lodge
    Join us at the Odd Fellows Lodge to eat breakfast provided by Bleu Restaurant & Kaldi’s Coffee.
  • 10:00am
    Manhunt

    Film · 100 min · 10 – 11:40am · The Blue Note
    A thriller that reexamines the hunt for Bin Laden and casts the women who worked as CIA information specialists as its unsung heroes.
  • 10:00am
    Pandora’s Promise

    Film · 87 min · 10 – 11:27am · Forrest Theater
    An elegant argument in favor of nuclear energy and a gauntlet thrown for environmentalists to reexamine their core beliefs.
  • 10:00am
    Secret Screening Gold

    Film · 90 min · 10 – 11:30am · Little Ragtag
    A sweet, sentimental portrait of a group of aging, yet still spry, artists
  • 10:00am
    Winter, Go Away!

    Film · 89 min · 10 – 11:29am · Missouri Theatre
    With hand-held immediacy, this film captures the political tumult of modern Russia – the consolidation of power by Vladimir Putin, the youthful energy of the dissenters and the frustrations of those caught in between.
  • 10:30am
    Village at the End of the World

    Film · 91 min · 10:30 – 12:01pm · Big Ragtag
    59 residents eke out a living in a tiny village on the northwest shore of Greenland. But at least they have Facebook.
  • 10:30am
    The Moo Man

    Film · 98 min · 10:30 – 12:08pm · Jesse Auditorium
    A British farmer and his 12-year-old cow, Ida, will steal your heart as you watch their tender relationship redefine the phrase ‘man’s best friend.’
  • 10:30am
    The Institute

    Film · 91 min · 10:30 – 12:01pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    As a mysterious alternate-reality game spills onto the streets of San Francisco; its participants struggle to discern the real world from the construct.
  • 11:45am
    The Speculative Stroll

    Event · 30 min · 11:45 – 12:15pm · Box Office
    Free-wheeling raconteur Speed Levitch, featured in the film “The Cruise,” accompanied by aide-de-camp Gabriel Williams, gives us a free tour of Columbia that introduces us to a city we didn’t know existed. Starts from the T/F Box Office.
  • 12:30pm
    The Expedition to the End of the World

    Film · 90 min · 12:30 – 2pm · Forrest Theater
    Mix together artists and scientists on a wooden schooner sailing to remote Greenland and the results are alternately absurd and sublime.
  • 12:30pm
    Northern Light

    Film · 104 min · 12:30 – 2:14pm · Little Ragtag
    A work of cinematic art that finds its inspiration in the white-on-white vistas of northern Michigan and the neon explosion of snowmobile racing.
  • 12:30pm
    Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

    Film · 79 min · 12:30 – 1:49pm · Missouri Theatre
    This year’s True Life Fund film tells the story of Tim Hetherington (Restrepo), a combat photographer extraordinaire, who bore witness to the personal stories too often lost in the fog of war.
  • 1:00pm
    Sweetgrass

    Film · 101 min · 1 – 2:41pm · Big Ragtag
    An elegy to a dying tradition, this film follows 3,000 sheep through the rugged but gorgeous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains. From True Vision recipient Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
  • 1:00pm
    Who Is Dayani Cristal?

    Film · 80 min · 1 – 2:20pm · The Blue Note
    A mystery unfolds on the US/Mexico border when a body turns up identified only by a tattoo that says “Dayani Cristal.”
  • 1:00pm
    The Gatekeepers

    Film · 97 min · 1 – 2:37pm · Jesse Auditorium
    This Oscar-nominated film provides a startling inside look at Israel’s super-secretive Shin Bet intelligence service.
  • 1:00pm
    Secret Screening Orange

    Film · 93 min · 1 – 2:33pm · The Picturehouse
    A cadre of separatists square off against an unsympathetic city.
  • 1:30pm
    The Captain and His Pirate

    Film · 82 min · 1:30 – 2:52pm · The Globe
    Caught in a larger game, an eloquent pirate leader and a troubled ship captain become a surprisingly close odd couple.
  • 1:30pm
    The Future of What? Staring at the Horizon of Nonfiction Filmmaking

    Conversation · 75 min · 1:30 – 2:45pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    From the traditional approaches to the more experimental and renegade, nonfiction filmmaking is either a big tent or a house divided. What might the form look like in five years? In ten? Join Ben Fowlie (Camden Int’l Film Festival) as he interrogates a trio of visionary filmmakers, each with a singular approach to the creative treatment of actuality.
  • 2:30pm
    The Speculative Stroll

    Event · 30 min · 2:30 – 3pm · Box Office
    Free-wheeling raconteur Speed Levitch, featured in the film “The Cruise,” accompanied by aide-de-camp Gabriel Williams, gives us a free tour of Columbia that introduces us to a city we didn’t know existed. Starts from the T/F Box Office.
  • 3:00pm
    The Act of Killing

    Film · 115 min · 3 – 4:55pm · Forrest Theater
    Boastful Indonesian thugs with a genocidal history recreate their past deeds in this landmark film championed by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris.
  • 3:00pm
    The Garden of Eden

    Film · 94 min · 3 – 4:34pm · Little Ragtag
    Zionist pioneers, disenfranchised Arabs, and many others frequent a swimming hole in Israel, providing a unique portal into a complex country.
  • 3:00pm
    Cutie and the Boxer

    Film · 81 min · 3 – 4:21pm · Missouri Theatre
    Ushio and Noriko are aging bohemian artists whose dedication, creativity and fierce tenacity make for a unique and enduring love story.
  • 3:30pm
    The Last Station

    Film · 90 min · 3:30 – 5pm · Big Ragtag
    Cut off from the rest of the world, retirees in Chile spice up their daily life any way they can, including the launch of a nostalgic radio station.
  • 3:30pm
    Leviathan

    Film · 87 min · 3:30 – 4:57pm · The Blue Note
    This True Vision Award honoree is operatic, immersive filmmaking that conveys, with full sensory overload, life on a commercial fishing boat.
  • 3:30pm
    Every Cut is a Lie: Editing the Truth

    Conversation · 75 min · 3:30 – 4:45pm · Odd Fellows Lodge
    French director Jean-Luc Godard famously said, “Cinema is truth 24 times a second, and every cut is a lie.” Editing is at the heart of the documentary alchemy that manipulates everyday reality into big-screen entertainment. Join a clutch of purveyors of the Big Lie as they confess their sins.
  • 3:30pm
    These Birds Walk

    Film · 76 min · 3:30 – 4:46pm · The Picturehouse
    A gorgeous, intimate and tender portrait of life in a Pakistani orphanage.
  • 4:00pm
    I Am Breathing

    Film · 89 min · 4 – 5:29pm · The Globe
    This jaw-dropping, humanistic work is about Neil Platt, a Scottish architect who’s been granted a vision of his own demise.
  • 4:00pm
    After Tiller

    Film · 88 min · 4 – 5:28pm · Jesse Auditorium
    Humanizing without lionizing, this film features intimate access to some of our nation’s most controversial figures – the four doctors in the United States who perform late-term abortions.
  • 5:30pm
    Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer

    Film · 86 min · 5:30 – 6:56pm · Forrest Theater
    The true story of the world’s most famous art agitators.
  • 5:30pm
    Lost & Found (shorts)

    Film · 75 min · 5:30 – 6:45pm · Little Ragtag
    Five golden shorts take us from Finland to Eritrea and beyond in hot pursuit of the elusive.
  • 6:00pm
    The Ascent of Man (shorts)

    Film · 91 min · 6 – 7:31pm · Big Ragtag
    The evolutionary model is featured in this stunning, four-film collection.
  • 6:00pm
    Computer Chess

    Film · 92 min · 6 – 7:32pm · The Blue Note
    In 1980, before geek was chic, a clutch of brainiac programmers converge in order to change the world.
  • 6:00pm
    Secret Screening Silver

    Film · 92 min · 6 – 7:32pm · The Picturehouse
    One man’s journey towards self-improvement takes him back to the turn of the 20th century.
  • 6:15pm
    Closing Night Reception

    Reception · 75 min · 6:15 – 7:30pm · Missouri Theatre
    A common meal for all who attend our closing night film at the Missouri Theatre, catered by Addison’s.
  • 6:30pm
    Secret Screening Blue

    Film · 75 min · 6:30 – 7:45pm · The Globe
    Dramatically reconstructs a shocking narrative and attempts to solve the mystery at its core.
  • 7:30pm
    Twenty Feet From Stardom

    Film · 89 min · 7:30 – 8:59pm · Jesse Auditorium
    Lifts the curtains on the world of backup singers and reveals the wonderful voices you’ve been hearing your whole life, but never noticed.
  • 7:45pm
    No

    Film · 118 min · 7:45 – 9:43pm · Missouri Theatre
    Oscar-nominated film that recreates the 1988 Chilean referendum on ending Pinochet’s rule. Stars Gael Garcia Bernal.
  • 8:30pm
    Crash Reel

    Film · 108 min · 8:30 – 10:18pm · The Blue Note
    Brotherly love and family loyalty provide the grace notes in the rise and fall of one of the greatest snowboarders in the world.
  • 8:30pm
    The Institute

    Film · 91 min · 8:30 – 10:01pm · Little Ragtag
    As a mysterious alternate-reality game spills onto the streets of San Francisco; its participants struggle to discern the real world from the construct.
  • 10:15pm
    Buskers Last Stand

    Concert · 60 min · 10:15 – 11:15pm · Missouri Theatre
    With a tear and a beer, the festival ends as the last air escapes the bellows of the accordion. Link arms with your festival friends and join a ragtag crew of buskers in the lobby of the Missouri Theatre as they offer an instant wake for T/F 2013. Event begins directly after the closing night film. Other merry festival-goers, please join with us for one last good-bye. Free and open to the public.