True/False Film Fest

In the center of Tehran, as the day comes to a close, a young first grader named Mina (played by Mina Mohammad-Khani) walks out of

Directed by a then 17-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf (daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who co-wrote the screenplay), this 1998 film recreates a scandalous news story using the

In this 1990 landmark, director Abbas Kiarostami takes a bizarre case of identity theft and convinces its real-life subjects to participate in a creative reenactment.

In 1974, when Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf was a 17-year-old anti-Shah militant, he stabbed a policeman at a rally. The police officer suffered serious injuries,

From True Vision Award honoree Amir Bar-Lev. A four-year-old who paints abstract works of modern art and then sells them for thousands of dollars a

Somewhere high up in Northern Ireland’s County Armagh lives a people of deep belief. Or so says farmer/raconteur Mickey McGuigan, who takes us on an

In central Nepal, tiny cable cars travel up and down the breathtaking mountain landscape, transporting pilgrims to the ancient Manakamana temple. Stephanie Spray and Pacho

Kwasa is a clever, charismatic twenty-something Rwandan native who also happens to be a terribly unreliable employee. As he struggles to find stable work in

This masterful new work in the present-tense tradition is ostensibly about “killing time” waiting for an execution of a man on Texas’s death row, who

Since 1986, a small, erudite cult has met weekly in Zurich. The group is currently making their third lap through James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, one