Wednesday, Mar 2 • Thursday, Mar 3 • Friday, Mar 4 • Saturday, Mar 5 • Sunday, Mar 6
Wednesday, Mar 2
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9:00pmEastside Pre-Fest ShowcaseLocals that are loved & loud Devin Frank Vanishing Blues Band, St Louis’ Swear Beam, and the always stylish Relevant Hairstyles. Doors at 8:00pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Lux, Busker Band, Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
Thursday, Mar 3
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4:30pmStand 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.
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4:30pmThose Who JumpIn the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.
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5:00pmAnother CountryAboriginal 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.
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5:30pmThe PearlIn a world far from glossy magazines featuring Laverne Cox, four middle-aged transgender women struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love.
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5:30pmThe JubileeFor our opening night, we kick it up a notch with a masquerade gala at the Missouri Theatre right before Life, Animated. No ticket required; open to Super Circle, Silver Circle, and Lux passholders.
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7:00pmLife, AnimatedAn enchanted, inspiring, true-life fairy tale: Owen Suskind struggles to speak until he finds his eccentric mentors, a band of Disney sidekicks.
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7:00pmThe Bad KidsAt an isolated, alternative high school, a firebrand principal tests the limits of tough love working with teenagers considered to be lost causes.
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7:00pmWeinerThis raucous, fast-paced profile gets up close and personal as it encounters the exploits of dethroned New York politician Anthony Weiner.
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7:00pmThy Father’s ChairTwins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment – until concerned neighbors intercede.
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7:30pmThe Prison in Twelve LandscapesThis impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the fabric of American life.
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7:30pmPeter and the FarmBack-to-the-lander Peter Dunning has become one with his Vermont farm, perched somewhere between paradise and hell.
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8:00pmNosotras · EllasJulia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.
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8:00pmThursday Berlin Busker RevueCreek Rocks, River Kittens, and Flood Bros. bands with blues rock, deep heated vocals and soulful hollering roots. Doors 7:00pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Lux, Busker Band, Juggernaut passholders, $5 general admission.
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9:30pmMichael Shannon Michael Shannon JohnCanadian siblings seek to solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance – and learn what fate befell this charming rogue.
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9:45pmKate Plays ChristineThis 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.
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9:45pmThe Land of the EnlightenedA boy’s life, Afghani style, as a merry band of marauders extort, scavenge, and traverse a beautiful, bombed-out dreamscape.
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10:00pmYou 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?
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10:00pmSecret Screening AquaThe director recovers his castaway childhood by drawing on a vast archive of videotapes. Plays with “Girls and Boys” (dir. Tomasz Gubernat, 14 min.)
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10:15pmBlue Note Opening Night ConcertThe inaugural concert between the Blue Note and T/F, Lee Fields brings his classic soul, rhythm and blues while Seratones tear up the stage with rock n’roll! Doors at 9:45pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Busker Band, Juggernaut passholders, $5 for Lux, $10 advance tickets, $15 at door.
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10:30pmThe Killing of America (N/N)A stunning, still-urgent call for the United States to disarm, The Killing of America presents a chilling procession of violence involving Jim Jones, Ted Bundy and the Manson girls. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Friday, Mar 4
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10:00amLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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11:00amThe Fear of 13Death row inmate Nick Yarris has the presence and poise of a Shakespearean thespian. But can he be believed?
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11:30amStarless DreamsIn this emotionally charged masterpiece, a group of underage female convicts dream of escaping the detention center and returning to their families.
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11:30amLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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11:45amUntitled Ramona Diaz ProjectWORK IN PROGRESS. In a Manila hospital, women of all ages hold something precious in their arms and close to their hearts.
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11:45amPresenting Princess ShawSinger-songwriter Princess Shaw aspires to greatness, but is anyone listening?
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11:45amThe Illinois ParablesArchival and original 16mm footage mesh with visionary sound design, as the singular Deborah Stratman tells a counter-narrative to how the Midwest was won.
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12:15pmAll These Sleepless NightsGlasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin’ with some girls I’ve never seen before…
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1:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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1:00pmField Session: Virtual Reality Drinking GameWith Brian Chirls and Jessica Brillhart
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1:30pmSonitaDead-set against being sold as a bride, a feisty Afghan refugee breaks loose to become a rapper.
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2:00pmBehemothWith 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.
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2:00pmSparky’s Friday ShowcaseThe modern stringed wonders of Ruth Acuff and Molly Healey. Free and open to the public, donations accepted!
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2:00pmSecret Screening NavyThis blood-boiling essay about technology run amok pivots from bedrooms to backrooms.
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2:15pmMichael Shannon Michael Shannon JohnCanadian siblings seek to solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance – and learn what fate befell this charming rogue.
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2:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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2:30pmAnother CountryAboriginal 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.
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2:30pmRelease 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.
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2:45pmField Session: Notes from the Fieldwith Kirsten Johnson and Eric Hynes
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3:00pmBetween SistersTeresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.
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4:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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4:30pmO FutebolA reunited father and son seek an elusive epiphany during the 2014 World Cup in SĂŁo Paulo.
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4:30pmLandmark Fired UpStop by for a warming taste of T/F buskers and hot chocolate! Free and open to the public, donations accepted.
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4:30pmThe Land of the EnlightenedA boy’s life, Afghani style, as a merry band of marauders extort, scavenge, and traverse a beautiful, bombed-out dreamscape.
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5:00pmPeter and the FarmBack-to-the-lander Peter Dunning has become one with his Vermont farm, perched somewhere between paradise and hell.
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5:00pmThose Who JumpIn the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.
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5:15pmMarch MarchWhat better way to encourage the tremulous start of spring than to lead by example and march into March? To bring this month in like a lion, we invite one and all to join in our festival parade, dress in costume, ride your bike, whatever you’d like (just no advertising or motorized vehicles). Free and open to the public.
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5:30pmDes 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.
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5:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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5:30pmReality BitesDirectly following the March March, step inside the Missouri Theatre, Columbia Art League, and —new this year— the Picturehouse to sample tastes from a wide array of Columbia’s best restaurants. Happy buskers fill the rooms with merriment. No ticket required; open to Super Circle, Silver Circle, and Lux passholders.
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5:30pmReality BitesDirectly following the March March, step inside the Missouri Theatre, Columbia Art League, and —new this year— the Picturehouse to sample tastes from a wide array of Columbia’s best restaurants. Happy buskers fill the rooms with merriment. No ticket required; open to Super Circle, Silver Circle, and Lux passholders.
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6:00pmVJ Suave Animation RideArtist Ygor Marotta visits the US for the first time from SĂŁo 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.
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6:45pmCamerapersonA profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.
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7:00pmNorman Lear: Just Another Version of YouSitcom king Norman Lear single-handedly revolutionized television. But what has he done lately?
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7:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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7:00pmThy Father’s ChairTwins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment – until concerned neighbors intercede.
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7:15pmWeinerThis raucous, fast-paced profile gets up close and personal as it encounters the exploits of dethroned New York politician Anthony Weiner.
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7:15pmThe PearlIn a world far from glossy magazines featuring Laverne Cox, four middle-aged transgender women struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love.
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7:15pmSecret Screening ScarletEvery emotion heightened, every moment vital, every connection new and electric.
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7:30pmJim: The James Foley StoryMemorializing James Foley, a photojournalist who rushed both headlong and heroically into war zones.
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7:30pmThe Prison in Twelve LandscapesThis impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the fabric of American life.
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8:00pmBerlin Friday Night ShowcaseThe loudest & craziest ensemble of T/F Buskers ever assembled: the rhythmic southwestern folk of Lone Pinon, French sillymen Les Trois Coups, Gora Gora Orkestar brass band, and New Orleans street strummers Yes Ma’am. Doors 7:00pm. Free for Super/Silver Circle, Lux, Busker Band, Juggernaut, $5 general admission.
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8:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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9:00pmAfrica Addio (N/N)A blistering indictment of the European nations who spent centuries plundering the African continent only to recklessly abandon it during decolonization. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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9:30pmCampfire StoriesGather round the hearth and come hear some stellar storytellers spin yarns in our cozy forest clearing. Reserved ticket required; open to all passholders.
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9:45pmThe Music of StrangersSuperstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble are on an uplifting mission to connect the world through music.
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9:45pmHelmut Berger, ActorThe most beautiful actor of his day is now a glorious wreck, and a trip to St. Tropez won’t cure his ills.
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10:00pmThe Fear of 13Death row inmate Nick Yarris has the presence and poise of a Shakespearean thespian. But can he be believed?
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10:00pmAuthor: The JT LeRoy StoryJT 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.
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10:00pmSherpaIn this visually soaring adventure, a tragic Mt. Everest avalanche exposes the relentless strains placed upon the guides.
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10:00pm@CTION! PartyThis legendary Friday night party is held at one of our favorite downtown nightclubs. No ticket required; open to Super Circle, Silver Circle, and Lux passholders.
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10:30pmTickledThis news-of-the-weird story about a fringe sport morphs into a twisty tale of obsession, exploitation, sex, and blackmail.
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10:30pmMy Best Fiasco (shorts)Three established filmmakers and a nine-year-old demonstrate right and wrong approaches to depicting on-screen violence.
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11:00pmField Session: Clicking & StreamingContestants to be announced!
Saturday, Mar 5
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9:00amTrue Life RunThe 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.
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9:00amStaying Indie: Crowdfunding to Build IndependenceSeed&Spark big cheese and all-around mega-smartypants Emily Best gets counterintuitive in this provocative talk about crowdfunding.
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9:30amBetween SistersTeresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.
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9:30amThe PearlIn a world far from glossy magazines featuring Laverne Cox, four middle-aged transgender women struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love.
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9:30amSherpaIn this visually soaring adventure, a tragic Mt. Everest avalanche exposes the relentless strains placed upon the guides.
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9:30amThe Music of StrangersSuperstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble are on an uplifting mission to connect the world through music.
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9:30amThe Land of the EnlightenedA boy’s life, Afghani style, as a merry band of marauders extort, scavenge, and traverse a beautiful, bombed-out dreamscape.
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9:30amLife, AnimatedAn enchanted, inspiring, true-life fairy tale: Owen Suskind struggles to speak until he finds his eccentric mentors, a band of Disney sidekicks.
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9:30amUntitled Ramona Diaz ProjectWORK IN PROGRESS. In a Manila hospital, women of all ages hold something precious in their arms and close to their hearts.
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10:00amHelmut Berger, ActorThe most beautiful actor of his day is now a glorious wreck, and a trip to St. Tropez won’t cure his ills.
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10:00amLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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10:00amThy Father’s ChairTwins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment – until concerned neighbors intercede.
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11:00amField Session: Intimate StrangersWith Roberto Minervini and Kaitlin Prest
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11:30amLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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12:00pmThe Art RambleBon 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.
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12:00pmMy Best Fiasco (shorts)Three established filmmakers and a nine-year-old demonstrate right and wrong approaches to depicting on-screen violence.
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12:00pmBehemothWith 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.
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12:00pmO FutebolA reunited father and son seek an elusive epiphany during the 2014 World Cup in SĂŁo Paulo.
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12:15pmThe Last Days of WinterThe precursor to Starless Dreams – seven young Iranian detainees spill their secrets and their passions to True Vision award winner Mehrdad Oskouei.
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12:15pmSecret Screening AquaThe director recovers his castaway childhood by drawing on a vast archive of videotapes. Plays with “Girls and Boys” (dir. Tomasz Gubernat, 14 min.)
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12:30pmHomeland (Iraq Year Zero)This landmark epic is an immersive profile of one Iraqi family before and after the 2003 occupation.
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12:30pmSonitaDead-set against being sold as a bride, a feisty Afghan refugee breaks loose to become a rapper.
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12:45pmField Session: Build / Unbuild- SoundscapeWith Deborah Stratman and Michal Marczak
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12:45pmThe Fear of 13Death row inmate Nick Yarris has the presence and poise of a Shakespearean thespian. But can he be believed?
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1:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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1:00pmThe Bad KidsAt an isolated, alternative high school, a firebrand principal tests the limits of tough love working with teenagers considered to be lost causes.
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2:00pmSparky’s Saturday ShowcaseThe finest of pure, lo-fi indie rock and delicate, twisted lyricism Stepdaughter and The Lentils (solo). Free and open to the public, donations accepted!
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2:15pmThe Other SideAddiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.
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2:30pmThe Art RambleBon 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.
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2:30pmThe Illinois ParablesArchival and original 16mm footage mesh with visionary sound design, as the singular Deborah Stratman tells a counter-narrative to how the Midwest was won.
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2:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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2:30pmField Session: Crafting Cinematic BiographyWith Jeff Feuerzeig and Heidi Ewing
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2:45pmMichael Shannon Michael Shannon JohnCanadian siblings seek to solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance – and learn what fate befell this charming rogue.
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2:45pmNosotras · EllasJulia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.
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3:00pmBetween SistersTeresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.
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3:30pmJim: The James Foley StoryMemorializing James Foley, a photojournalist who rushed both headlong and heroically into war zones.
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3:45pmPresenting Princess ShawSinger-songwriter Princess Shaw aspires to greatness, but is anyone listening?
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4:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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4:00pmStarless DreamsIn this emotionally charged masterpiece, a group of underage female convicts dream of escaping the detention center and returning to their families.
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4:00pmFilmmaker FêteThe Fête is our banquet to honor visiting Fimmakers. Ticket required, open to Super Circle and Silver Circle passholders.
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4:30pmLandmark Fired UpMore outdoor T/F buskers for your listening pleasure! Free and open to the public, donations accepted.
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4:45pmStand 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.
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5:00pmThe Prison in Twelve LandscapesThis impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the fabric of American life.
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5:00pmNorman Lear: Just Another Version of YouSitcom king Norman Lear single-handedly revolutionized television. But what has he done lately?
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5:30pmRelease 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.
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5:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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5:45pmCamerapersonA profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.
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6:30pmKate Plays ChristineThis 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.
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6:30pmThe Other SideAddiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.
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6:45pmAuthor: The JT LeRoy StoryJT 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.
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7:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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7:00pmSanctuary ConcertBooming 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!
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7:15pmBehemothWith 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.
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7:45pmYou 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?
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7:45pmPeter and the FarmBack-to-the-lander Peter Dunning has become one with his Vermont farm, perched somewhere between paradise and hell.
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8:00pmNosotras · EllasJulia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.
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8:00pmSaturday Berlin Busker RevueA 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.
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8:00pmAnother CountryAboriginal 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.
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8:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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8:45pmThose Who JumpIn the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.
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9:30pmSaturday Party at RoseThe 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.
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9:45pmTickledThis news-of-the-weird story about a fringe sport morphs into a twisty tale of obsession, exploitation, sex, and blackmail.
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9:45pmSecret Screening NavyThis blood-boiling essay about technology run amok pivots from bedrooms to backrooms.
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10:00pmDes 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.
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10:00pmHelmut Berger, ActorThe most beautiful actor of his day is now a glorious wreck, and a trip to St. Tropez won’t cure his ills.
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10:00pmVJ Suave Animation RideArtist Ygor Marotta visits the US for the first time from SĂŁo 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.
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10:15pmAll These Sleepless NightsGlasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin’ with some girls I’ve never seen before…
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10:30pmGimme 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.
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10:30pmSecret Screening ScarletEvery emotion heightened, every moment vital, every connection new and electric.
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11:30pmConcerned Student 1950This 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.)
Sunday, Mar 6
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9:30amAnother CountryAboriginal 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.
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9:30amNorman Lear: Just Another Version of YouSitcom king Norman Lear single-handedly revolutionized television. But what has he done lately?
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9:30amPresenting Princess ShawSinger-songwriter Princess Shaw aspires to greatness, but is anyone listening?
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9:30amChautauquaJoin our six fabulous Provocateurs and host, Kaitlin Prest, for a round of more provocations, music, and storytelling.
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9:30amThe Music of StrangersSuperstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble are on an uplifting mission to connect the world through music.
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9:30amMy Best Fiasco (shorts)Three established filmmakers and a nine-year-old demonstrate right and wrong approaches to depicting on-screen violence.
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10:00amKate Plays ChristineThis 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.
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10:00amLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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10:45amPost-Chautauqua ElevensesOpen to all Chautauqua ticket-holders and Super and Silver Circle passholders, this post-Chautauqua event gives attendees the opportunity to meet and greet with the provocateurs.
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11:30amLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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12:00pmThe Art RambleBon 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.
-
12:15pmPeter and the FarmBack-to-the-lander Peter Dunning has become one with his Vermont farm, perched somewhere between paradise and hell.
-
12:15pmAuthor: The JT LeRoy StoryJT 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.
-
12:30pmSonitaDead-set against being sold as a bride, a feisty Afghan refugee breaks loose to become a rapper.
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12:30pmThose Who JumpIn the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.
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12:30pmUntitled Ramona Diaz ProjectWORK IN PROGRESS. In a Manila hospital, women of all ages hold something precious in their arms and close to their hearts.
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12:30pmSecret Screening AquaThe director recovers his castaway childhood by drawing on a vast archive of videotapes. Plays with “Girls and Boys” (dir. Tomasz Gubernat, 14 min.)
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1:00pmThe Illinois ParablesArchival and original 16mm footage mesh with visionary sound design, as the singular Deborah Stratman tells a counter-narrative to how the Midwest was won.
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1:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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1:00pmJim: The James Foley StoryMemorializing James Foley, a photojournalist who rushed both headlong and heroically into war zones.
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1:30pmBetween SistersTeresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.
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2:00pmSparky’s Sunday ShowcaseLoopers from another planet Wishbone Zoe and Nevada Greene. Free and open to the public, donations accepted!
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2:30pmThe Art RambleBon 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.
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2:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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3:00pmThe Other SideAddiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.
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3:00pmYou 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?
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3:15pmThe PearlIn a world far from glossy magazines featuring Laverne Cox, four middle-aged transgender women struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love.
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3:30pmThe Killing of America (N/N)A stunning, still-urgent call for the United States to disarm, The Killing of America presents a chilling procession of violence involving Jim Jones, Ted Bundy and the Manson girls. Screens for free as a part of the Neither/Nor Film Series. Neither/Nor is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
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3:30pmTickledThis news-of-the-weird story about a fringe sport morphs into a twisty tale of obsession, exploitation, sex, and blackmail.
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3:30pmSecret Screening ScarletEvery emotion heightened, every moment vital, every connection new and electric.
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3:45pmThe Bad KidsAt an isolated, alternative high school, a firebrand principal tests the limits of tough love working with teenagers considered to be lost causes.
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3:45pmWeinerThis raucous, fast-paced profile gets up close and personal as it encounters the exploits of dethroned New York politician Anthony Weiner.
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4:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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4:00pmThy Father’s ChairTwins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment – until concerned neighbors intercede.
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5:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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5:30pmRelease 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.
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6:00pmNosotras · EllasJulia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.
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6:00pmCamerapersonA profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.
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6:00pmSecret Screening NavyThis blood-boiling essay about technology run amok pivots from bedrooms to backrooms.
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6:15pmO FutebolA reunited father and son seek an elusive epiphany during the 2014 World Cup in SĂŁo Paulo.
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6:15pmClosing Night ReceptionA common meal for all who attend the closing night films at the Missouri Theatre. Ticket required; the film ticket includes the reception.
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6:30pmKate Plays ChristineThis 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.
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6:30pmThe Prison in Twelve LandscapesThis impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the fabric of American life.
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7:00pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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7:30pmLife, AnimatedAn enchanted, inspiring, true-life fairy tale: Owen Suskind struggles to speak until he finds his eccentric mentors, a band of Disney sidekicks.
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8:00pmSherpaIn this visually soaring adventure, a tragic Mt. Everest avalanche exposes the relentless strains placed upon the guides.
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8:00pmThe Last Days of WinterThe precursor to Starless Dreams – seven young Iranian detainees spill their secrets and their passions to True Vision award winner Mehrdad Oskouei.
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8:30pmStarless DreamsIn this emotionally charged masterpiece, a group of underage female convicts dream of escaping the detention center and returning to their families.
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8:30pmLOST LETTERSTrue/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.
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8:30pmAll These Sleepless NightsGlasses of champagne out on the dance floor, hangin’ with some girls I’ve never seen before…
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9:00pmStand 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.
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9:30pmBuskers Last StandWith a tear and a beer, the festival ends as the last air escapes the bellows of the accordion, trumpet, and megaphone. Link arms with your festival friends and join True/False’s own second line in the lobby of the Missouri Theatre as they throw an instant wake for T/F 2016 following the Q&A after Life, Animated at Jesse, and Sherpa at the Missouri Theatre.
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9:45pmBuskers Last StandWith a tear and a beer, the festival ends as the last air escapes the bellows of the accordion, trumpet, and megaphone. Link arms with your festival friends and join True/False’s own second line in the lobby of the Missouri Theatre as they throw an instant wake for T/F 2016 following the Q&A after Life, Animated at Jesse, and Sherpa at the Missouri Theatre.
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12:30amToastedToasted is a free-wheeling talk show where we review the weekend’s festivities with filmmakers, musicians, artists, and other attendees. Free and open to the public.