True/False Film Festival Last updated December 15, 2025 Annual documentary film festival in Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
True/False Film Fest Location Columbia, Missouri , United States Hosted by The Ragtag Film Society Festival date February 27, 2025-March 2, 2025 Language English Website www
True/False Film Fest is an annual documentary film festival that takes place in Columbia, Missouri . The Fest occurs on the first weekend in March (sometimes beginning in late February), with films being shown from Thursday evening to Sunday night. Films are screened at multiple locations around downtown Columbia, including Ragtag Cinema , Jesse Hall , Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts , The Picturehouse, The Blue Note , The Globe, Rhynsburger Theater and the Forrest Theater in the Tiger Hotel . It offers one award each year, the True Vision Award .
True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema are programs of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the Ragtag Film Society. Ragtag Film Society seeks to champion independent film and media art and to serve film communities both locally and globally.
History True/False was started by Paul Sturtz and David Wilson (who also founded the Ragtag Cinema ) in February 2004. [ 1] In 2006, it won the Riverfront Times best film festival. [ 2] In 2008, the film fest lost 1,200 seats due to the renovation work taking place at the Missouri Theatre . To adjust for the loss, the fest expanded beyond its usual boundaries in order to take advantage of additional screens at Macklanburg Cinema, Windsor Cinema, and The Den on the campus of Stephens College . After the completion of its restoration, the historic Missouri Theatre was once again a featured venue for the 2009 edition of the fest. [ 3] The True/False Film Fest and Stephens College amicably ended their partnership after the 2011 fest, and Stephens College continued to host the annual Citizen Jane Film Festival through its demise in 2018. [ 4]
The 2021 edition of the festival was moved to outdoor venues in nearby Stephens Lake Park due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 5] In addition to moving the event outdoors, they also brought festival boxes straight to the doors of pass holders. [ 6] The event made its return to downtown Columbia setting 2022.
Growth The first True/False Film Festival in 2004 sold 4,200 tickets and the fest has since experienced rapid growth, increasing attendance by 25% or more in all but two years through its first decade. [ 7] Since then, the festival has increased attendance each year with the exception of 2014, which saw a 3% decrease amid a winter snowstorm. [ 7] [ 8] The latest event in 2017 saw another record high in ticket sales, nearly 3,000 more than 2016. [ 9] [ 10]
Over the years, the festival has expanded its presentation of other arts, including music and decorative art. [ 11] [ 12] The event kicks off with a parade , the "March March," and ends with "Buskers Last Stand," in which many of the invited musicians come together for a closing performance. It encourages additional attendee involvement through participatory events like the "True Life 5K run ," [ 13] and the "Gimme Truth!" game show . The festival has risen from its meager origins to earn praise from both the Chicago Tribune [ 14] and Los Angeles Times . [ 15]
In 2019, the festival received thousands of submissions and sold over 54,000 tickets, bringing thousands of people to mid-Missouri from around the world. The festival is sponsored by almost every downtown store, restaurant and bar, and has multiple educational events such as Camp True/False and BOATS for both local & national high schools, year-long film programs, and more.
Education In early 2016, Columbia Public Schools, Ragtag Film Society, and the Columbia Public Schools Foundation announced a new, landmark multi-year partnership that brings together film, the CPS curriculum, and teacher training. The Media Literacy initiative is a year-round program that supports teacher efforts to incorporate more film and multimedia into their classrooms.
The program champions the belief that as students catapult into a world of ever-changing media, distribution platforms, and news outlets, the skills to be thoughtful, critical consumers of media must grow. Students deserve the tools to think consciously about the ways their world is presented to them and the ways they present their world. The primary goals are to increase the presence of film in core classrooms, help teachers and students learn to read film as text, and to cultivate and enhance critical thinking skills as teachers and students practice analyzing new media.
Camp True/False brings high school students with varying interests insider access to the fest for a weekend of exciting films, music, art, conversations and workshops with a diverse crew of exceptional guests and local hosts. Camp True/False convenes before the Fest to discuss relevant issues, share research and plot their course. Participating students get a chance to meet the founders of the festival and meet with directors of the films showing at the festival in a private, personal manner. The camp is completely free for the students, who are selected through an application process in November. All Columbia Public Schools participate, as well as 10 out-of-town schools (4 of those, out-of-state). In 2019, the camp included around 80 high schoolers, including 30 local students and 50 students from nearby and national areas. Students from Saint Louis, Jefferson City, North Carolina, New Mexico, and more attended the 4 day camp. Application are typically due about a month before the festival starts. [ 16]
DIY Day On the Friday morning of the Fest, 10th graders from across all four Columbia public high schools take buses to a True/False venue where their nonfiction cinema & art experience begins! The students watch buskers and a festival film (listed below, by year), and students are encouraged to participate in a Q&A with the filmmaker. Afterward, 200 self-selected students attend interactive artist workshops and join in the anyone-can-join March March parade.
Educational Screening Films The Educational Screenings are a special screening for local high school sophomores as a field trip to watch one film from the festival for free.
2025: Time Bomb Y2K , dir. Brian Becker & Marley McDonald
2024: Going Varsity in Mariachi, dir. Alejandra Vazquez & Sam Osborn
2023: Let the Little Light Shine , dir. Kevin Shaw
2022: Step , dir. Amanda Lipitz
2021: Undefeated , dir. Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
2020: The Order of Myths , dir. Margaret Brown
2019: Amazing Grace , guest Dr. King
2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor? , dir. Morgan Neville
2017: I Am Not Your Negro , dir. Raoul Peck
2016: The Bad Kids , dir. Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
2015: What Happened Miss Simone? , dir. Liz Garbus
2014: Particle Fever , dir. Mark Levinson
2013: Crash Reel dir. Lucy Walker
Films 2017 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James 2017 88 min Feature All Good Things Chloe Domont 2017 26 min Short The New Family Antonio, Dashing Antonio Ana Maria Gomez 2017 42 min Short Edith + Eddie + Antonio Balloonfest Nathan Truesdell 2017 6 min Short The World Laughs With You Best of Luck with the Wall Josh Begley 2017 7 min Short Making Good Neighbors Brief History of Princess X Gabriel Abrantes 7 min Short Brimstone & Glory Viktor Jakovleski 2017 67 min Feature Casting JonBenet Kitty Green 2017 80 min Feature The Challenge Yuri Ancarani 2016 75 min Feature Commodity City Jessica Kingdon 2016 10 min Short Communion Anna Zamecka 2016 77 min Feature Deer Squad: The Movie Pipus Larsen, Kenneth Gug, & Scott J. Ross 2017 5 min Short Describe What You Heard Joe Callander & Jason Tippet 2017 3 min Short Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? Travis Wilkerson 2017 90 min Feature Dina Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini 2017 102 min Feature Distant Constellation Shevaun Mizrahi 2017 80 min Feature The Diver Esteban Arrangoiz 2015 16 min Short Donkeyote Chico Pereira 2017 86 min Feature Edith+Eddie Laura Checkoway 2017 30 min Short Fares Thora Lorentzen 2016 21 min Short Fish Story Charlie Lyne 2017 12 min Short The Force Peter Nicks 2017 93 min Feature The Graduation Claire Simon 2016 120 min Feature The Grown-Ups Maite Alberdi 2016 83 min Feature Gulîstan, Land of Roses Zaynê Akyol 2016 84 min Feature Happy Happy Baby Jan Soldat 2017 22 min Short The Hollow Coin Frank Heath 2016 13 min Short HyperNormalisation Adam Curtis 2016 187 min Feature I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck 2016 93 min Feature If Only There Were Peace Carmine Grimaldi & Deniz Tortum 2017 30 min Short Koropa Laura Henno 2016 19 min Short Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 Florent Vassault 2017 84 min Feature Long Strange Trip Amir Bar-Lev 2017 259 min Feature LoveTrue Alma Har'el 2016 82 min Feature Manifesto Julian Rosefeldt 2017 90 min Feature Mimi Claire Simon 2003 105 min Feature True Vision Miss Kiet's Children Petra Lataster-Czisch & Peter Lataster 2016 114 min Feature My Daughter Nora Jasna Krajinovic 2016 16 min Short No Man's Land David Byars 2017 84 min Feature one of the roughs, a kosmos Carmine Grimaldi 2016 21 min Short Polonaise Agnieszka Elbanowska 2016 16 min Short Project X Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke 2016 10 min Short Quest Jonathan Olshefski 2017 105 min Feature The Rabbit Hunt Patrick Bresnan 2017 12 min Short Railway Sleepers Sompot Chidgasornpongse 2016 102 min Feature Rat Film Theo Anthony 2016 87 min Feature Récréations Claire Simon 1992 54 min Feature True Vision The Road Movie Dmitrii Kalashnikov 2016 72 min Feature Safari Ulrich Seidl 2016 90 min Feature Servicing Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family, Subpart A4-2.1-02, Property Inspection Vendor Management and Oversight (11/12/2014) Carmine Grimaldi 2016 13 min Short Step Amanda Lipitz 2017 83 min Feature Still Tomorrow FAN Jian 2016 88 min Feature Stranger in Paradise Guido Hendrikx 2016 77 min Feature Strong Island Yance Ford 2017 107 min Feature Venus Lea Glob & Mette Carla Albrechtsen 2016 80 min Feature Whose Streets? Sabaah Folayan 2016 104 min Feature
2018 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program Adriana's Pact Lissette Orozco 2017 96 min Feature América Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside 2018 75 min Feature American Animals Bart Layton 2018 116 min Feature António e Catarina Cristina Haneș 2017 40 min Feature Artemio Sandra Luz López Barroso 2017 48 min Feature The Atomic Soldiers Morgan Knibbe 2018 23 min Short Baby Brother Kamau Bilal 2018 14 min Short Bisbee '17 Robert Greene 2018 118 min Feature Black Mother Khalik Allah 2018 77 min Feature La Bouche Camilo Restrepo 2017 19 min Short Caniba Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor 2017 97 min Feature Combat Obscura Miles Lagoze 2018 67 min Feature Community Patrol Andrew James 2018 13 min Short Concussion Protocol Josh Begley 2018 6 min Short Crime + Punishment Stephen Maing 2018 112 min Feature Dessert-Disaster Alison Nguyen 2017 2 min Short Disintegration 93-96 Miko Revereza 2017 6 min Short Duelo Alejandro Alonso 2017 12 min Short Durango Matt Sukkar 2017 14 min Short The Family Rok Biček 2017 106 min Feature Flight of a Bullet Beata Bubenec 2017 81 min Feature La Flor de la Vida Adriana Loeff & Claudia Abend 2017 86 min Feature Gabriel and the Mountain Fellipe Barbosa 2017 131 min Feature Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Sophie Fiennes 2017 115 min Feature Graven Image Sierra Pettengill 2017 11 min Short Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross 2018 76 min Feature Handsworth Songs John Akomfrah 1986 61 min Feature Neither/Nor John 746 Ana Vijdea 2017 34 min Short Kinshasa Makambo Dieudo Hamadi 2018 75 min Feature Las Nubes Juan Pablo González 2018 21 min Short Liminals Jeremy Shaw 2017 31 min Short Love Means Zero Jason Kohn 2018 89 min Feature Lovers of the Night Anna Frances Ewert 2017 57 min Feature Makala Emmanuel Gras 2017 96 min Feature The Making and Unmaking of the Earth Jessica Bardsley 2018 17 min Short MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. Steve Loveridge 2018 96 min Feature Mini Miss Rachel Daisy Ellis 2018 16 min Short Mon Amour, Mon Ami Adriano Valerio 2017 16 min Short National Diploma Dieudo Hamadi 2014 92 min Feature True Vision Award Repertory Series The Next Guardian Dorottya Zurbó & Arun Bhattarai 2017 74 min Feature Of Fathers and Sons Talal Derki 2017 98 min Feature Our New President Maxim Pozdorovkin 2018 78 min Feature Palenque Sebastián Pinzón Silva 2017 25 min Short Personal Truth Charlie Lyne 2017 18 min Short The Price of Everything Nathaniel Kahn 2018 98 min Feature Playing Men Matjaž Ivanišin 2017 61 min Feature Primas Laura Bari 2017 100 min Feature True Life Fund Pumpkin Movie Sophy Romvari 2017 10 min Short Pure Difference Byron Peters 2017 12 min Short The Rider Chloé Zhao 2017 105 min Feature Self-Portrait: Birth in 47 km ZHANG Mengqi 2016 101 min Feature SHAKEDOWN Leilah Weinraub 2018 69 min Feature Shirkers Sandi Tan 2018 96 min Feature Taming the Horse GU Tao 2017 129 min Feature The Task Leigh Ledare 2017 120 min Feature Testament John Akomfrah 1988 79 min Feature Neither/Nor They Just Come and Go Boris Poljak 2017 20 min Short Three Identical Strangers Tim Wardle 2018 96 min Feature The Trader Tamta Gabrichidze 2017 22 min Short Twilight City Reece Auguiste 1989 53 min Feature Neither/Nor Voices of the Sea Kim Hopkins 2018 99 min Feature The Water Slide Nathan Truesdell 2018 10 min Short Westwood Lorna Tucker 2018 83 min Feature Who Needs a Heart? John Akomfrah 1991 78 min Feature Neither/Nor Won't You Be My Neighbor? Morgan Neville 2018 94 min Feature
2019 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program Amazing Grace Sydney Pollack 2018 87 min Feature American Factory Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert 2019 115 min Feature Apollo 11 Todd Douglas Miller 2019 93 min Feature Atman Pirjo Honkasalo 1997 76 min Feature Neither/Nor Black 14 Darius Clark Monroe 2018 15 min Short Caballerango Juan Pablo González 2018 60 min Feature Celebration Olivier Meyrou 2018 73 min Feature The Changing Same Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster 2018 21 min Short Chez Jolie Coiffure Rosine Mbakam 2018 70 min Feature Chinese Portrait WANG Xiaoshuai 2018 79 min Feature Cold Case Hammarskjöld Mads Brügger 2019 123 min Feature The Commons Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky 2019 71 min Feature Crannog Isa Rao 2018 15 min Short Dark Suns Julien Élie 2018 151 min Feature The Edge of Democracy Petra Costa 2019 120 min Feature Djo Laura Henno 2018 12 min Short Dramatic and Mild Nastia Korkia 2018 6 min Short Due Riccardo Giacconi 2017 17 min Short every dog has its day Alison Nguyen 2019 6 min Short Fainting Spells Sky Hopinka 2018 11 min Short Finding Frances Nathan Fielder 2017 84 min Feature The Game Marine de Contes 2018 53 min Feature Ghosts of Sugar Land Bassam Tariq 2019 21 min Short Goodbye Thelma Jessica Bardsley 2019 14 min Short The Grand Bizarre Jodie Mack 2018 61 min Feature The Harvesters Derek Howard 2018 6 min Short Home, Sweet Home ISE Shinichi 2018 110 min Feature The Hottest August Brett Story 2019 92 min Feature I Signed the Petition Mahdi Fleifel 2018 10 min Short Island of the Hungry Ghosts Gabrielle Brady 2018 98 min Feature Knock Down the House Rachel Lears 2019 85 min Feature Landless Camila Freitas 2019 110 min Feature Lasting Marks Charlie Lyne 2018 14 min Short Let It Burn Maíra Bühler 2019 82 min Feature The Lost Head and the Bird Sohrab Hura 2018 10 min Short The Magic Life of V Tonislav Hristov 2019 85 min Feature The Men Behind the Wall Inés Moldavsky 2018 28 min Short Midnight in Paris Roni Moore & James Blagden 2019 75 min Feature Midnight Traveler Hassan Fazili 2019 87 min Feature Mike Wallace is Here Avi Belkin 2019 86 min Feature Mysterion Pirjo Honkasalo 1991 94 min Feature Neither/Nor Mr. SOUL! Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard 2018 115 min Feature The Naked Room Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda 2013 70 min Feature No data plan Miko Revereza 2019 70 min Feature ‘Now something is slowly changing’ mint film office 2018 105 min Feature One Child Nation Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang 2019 89 min Feature Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) Carlos Reygadas 2018 173 min Feature Over the Rainbow Jeffrey Peixoto 2019 71 min Feature Reason Anand Patwardhan 2018 235 min Feature Segunda Vez Dora Garcia 2018 94 min Feature The Tightrope Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda 2009 80 min Feature Treasure Island Guillaume Brac 2018 97 min Feature Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary Ben Berman 2019 91 min Feature Up the Mountain Zhang Yang 2018 126 min Feature Vesuvius at Home Christin Turner 2019 14 min Short Vever (for Barbara) Deborah Stratman 2018 12 min Short Walled/Unwalled Lawrence Abu Hamdan 2018 20 min Short A Wild Stream Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda 2018 72 min Feature True Vision
2020 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program 45365 Bill & Turner Ross 2009 94 min Feature Aswang Alyx Ayn Arumpac 2019 85 min Feature Aurora Everlane Moraes 2018 16 min Short Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Bill & Turner Ross 2020 98 min Feature True Vision Boys State Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss 2020 109 min Feature Catskin Ina Luchsperger 2019 58 min Feature City So Real Steve James 2020 240 min Feature Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1) Mitch McCabe 2019 15 min Short Collective Alexander Nanau 2019 109 min Feature Crestone Marnie Ellen Hertzler 2020 73 min Feature Crip Camp James LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham 2019 102 min Feature Dadli Shabier Kirchner 2018 15 min Short Dick Johnson Is Dead Kirsten Johnson 2020 89 min Feature Distancing Miko Revereza 2020 10 min Short Dope Is Death Mia Donovan 2020 78 min Feature Down a Dark Stairwell Ursula Liang 2020 83 min Feature The Faculties Eloísa Solaas 2019 77 min Feature Faith Valentina Pedicini 2019 93 min Feature Feels Good Man Arthur Jones 2020 95 min Feature The Giverny Document Ja'Tovia Gary 2019 42 min Feature Good Ended Happily Basir Mahmood 2019 13 min Short Hampton Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena Harold 2019 8 min Short How to Disappear Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf 2020 21 min Short IWOW I Walk on Water Khalik Allah 2020 197 min Feature JESA Kyungwon Song 2019 6 min Short Lost Three Make One Found Atsushi Kuwayama 2019 27 min Short Love It/Leave It Tom Palazzolo 1973 15 min Short Lovemobil Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss 2019 106 min Feature A Machine to Live In Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke 2020 87 min Feature małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore Sky Hopinka 2020 81 min Feature Mayor David Osit 2020 87 min Feature The Metamorphosis of Birds Catarina Vasconcelos 2020 101 min Feature The Mole Agent Maite Alberdi 2020 90 min Feature Mucho Mucho Amor Cristina Constantini & Kareem Tabsch 2020 96 min Feature Nofinofy Michaël Andrianaly 2020 73 min Feature Partial Differential Equation Kevin Jerome Everson 2020 8 min Short Pier Kids Elegance Bratton 2019 84 min Feature Recklessly Eyeballing Christopher Harris 2004 14 min Short Ridge John Skoog 2019 70 min Feature San Vittore Yuri Ancarani 2019 12 min Short The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape Alison O'Daniel 2019 18 min Short Secret Screening Short 2019 24 min Short See You Next Time Crystal Kayiza 2020 6 min Short Seven Years in May Affonso Uchoa 2019 42 min Feature Shortcuts Daniela Delgado Viteri 2019 18 min Short Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Riccardo Giacconi, Paolo Pennuti, Mirko Fabbri 2019 12 min Short So Late So Soon Daniel Hymanson 2020 70 min Feature Some Kind of Heaven Lance Oppenheim 2020 81 min Feature A Song About Love Rikki Wright 2019 14 min Short Specialised Technique Onyeka Igwe 2019 7 min Short The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay Yen-Chao Lin 2019 11 min Short Spit on the Broom Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich 2019 11 min Short Sunless Shadows Mehrdad Oskouei 2019 74 min Feature A Supa Special Wakaliwood Event for All True/False Commandos IGG Nabwana 2020 61 min Feature Talking About Trees Suhaib Gasmelbari 2019 93 min Feature Tchoupitoulas Bill & Turner Ross 2012 82 min Feature That Cloud Never Left Yashaswini Raghunandan 2019 66 min Feature This Is an Address Sasha Wortzel 2019 17 min Short Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another Jessica Sarah Rinland 2019 65 min Feature Time Garrett Bradley 2020 85 min Feature To the North (Part 2) Kelman Duran 2016 23 min Short Unskinned Inês Gil 2019 76 min Feature Up at Night Nelson Makengo 2019 21 min Short The Viewing Booth Ra’anan Alexandrowicz 2019 70 min Feature Welcome to Chechnya David France 2020 107 min Feature what remains/geriye kalanlar belit sağ 2019 7 min Short When two or three Carmine Grimaldi 2019 20 min Short
2021 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program .srt Africanus Okokon 2020 9 min Short All Light, Everywhere Theo Anthony 2021 106 min Feature The Bodies Eloy Domínguez Serén 2020 11 min Short Brontosaurus Jack Dunphy 2020 8 min Short Club Quarantine Aurora Brachman 2020 7 min Short The Cut Zac Manuel 2020 7 min Short Das Spiel Roman Hodel 2020 17 min Short Delphine's Prayers Rosine Mbakam 2020 90 min Feature Department of Injustice Travis Wood & Chloe Gbai 2020 6 min Short Dirty Feathers Carlos Alfonso Corral 2021 75 min Feature Faya Dayi Jessica Beshir 2021 120 min Feature Fire Season Quinn Else 2020 7 min Short The Flooded House Lucía Malandro & Daniel D. Saucedo 2020 14 min Short From the Wild Sea Robin Petré 2021 78 min Feature The Golden Buttons Alex Evstigneev 2020 20 min Short The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World Claire Simon 2020 110 min Feature Halpate Adam Piron & Adam Khalil 2020 14 min Short Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse Pablo Weber 2020 22 min Short Homeroom Peter Nicks 2021 90 min Feature The I and S of Lives Kevin Jerome Everson 2021 7 min Short Inside the Red Brick Wall HK Documentary Filmmakers 2021 88 min Feature Lemongrass Girl Pom Bunsermvicha 2021 17 min Short Maat Means Land Fox Maxy 2020 30 min Short My Own Landscape Antoine Chapon 2020 18 min Short No Kings Emilia Mello 2020 85 min Feature O arrais do mar Elisa Celda 2020 18 min Short Petit Samedi Paloma Sermon-Dai 2020 75 min Feature The Rain Will Never Stop Alina Gorlova 2020 103 min Feature Red Taxi Anonymous 2020 14 min Short The Rifleman Sierra Pettengill 2020 18 min Short Rock Bottom Riser Fern Silva 2021 70 min Feature Sabaya Hogir Hirori 2021 93 min Feature Songs That Flood the River German Adolfo Arango 2021 75 min Feature Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth Aylin Gökmen 2020 14 min Short Summer of Soul Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson 2021 117 min Feature The Truth About Hastings Dan Schneidkraut 2021 10 min Short The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman Rosine Mbakam 2018 76 min Feature Users Natalia Almada 2021 81 min Feature VO Nicolas Gourault 2020 17 min Short Why Don't You Eat More? George Du; Sinclair Neff 2020 4 min Short
2022 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program 2nd Chance Ramin Bahrani 2022 89 min Feature Abisal Alejandro Alonso 2021 30 min Short Açucena Isaac Donato 2021 71 min Feature After Sherman Jon-Sesrie Goff 2021 88 min Feature The Balcony Movie Paweł Łoziński 2021 100 min Feature Brotherhood Francesco Montagner 2021 97 min Feature Caballerango Juan Pablo González 2018 60 min Feature Canoa: A Shameful Memory Felipe Cazals 1976 115 min Feature Children of the Mist HÀ Lệ Diễm 2021 90 min Feature Days and Nights of Demetra K Eva Stefani 2021 72 min Feature Death Nadia Hallgren 2021 9 min Short The Delights Eduardo Crespo 2021 65 min Feature Dos Estaciones Juan Pablo González 2022 99 min Feature Eventually Rikke Nørgaard 2021 56 min Feature Expo Film (this film is my memory) Penny McCann 2020 9 min Short Factory to the Workers Srđan Kovačević 2021 106 min Feature Fire of Love Sara Dosa 2021 93 min Feature GES-2 Nastia Korkia 2021 77 min Feature Gods of Mexico Helmut Dosantos 2022 97 min Feature Golden Jubilee Suneil Sanzgiri 2021 19 min Short Greetings from Myanmar Sunniva Sundby & Andreas J. Riiser 2020 6 min Short H6 Yé Yé 2021 113 min Feature I Didn’t See You There Reid Davenport 2022 77 min Feature Ikebana Rita Ferrando 2021 13 min Short In Flow of Words Eliane Esther Bots 2021 22 min Short It Runs in the Family Victoria Linares Villegas 2022 83 min Feature Kalsubai Yudhajit Basu 2021 20 min Short Kicking the Clouds Sky Hopinka 2021 16 min Short Las Nubes Juan Pablo González 2017 21 min Short Last Days of August Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck & Robert Machoian 2022 13 min Short Let the Little Light Shine Kevin Shaw 2022 86 min Feature Liberation Radio Esther Johnson 2021 14 min Short Miguel's War Eliane Raheb 2021 128 min Feature Mija Isabel Castro 2022 88 min Feature Mr Landsbergis Sergei Loznitsa 2021 146 min Feature Nazarbazi Maryam Tafakory 2022 19 min Short No U-Turn Ike Nnaebue 2022 92 min Feature Nuisance Bear Jack Weisman & Gabriela Osio Vanden 2021 14 min Short Octopus Karim Kassem 2020 64 min Feature Our Ark Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton 2021 12 min Short Quitting Time Cameron Yates 2022 8 min Short The Rightful Ana Galizia 2022 21 min Short Riotsville, U.S.A. Sierra Pettengill 2022 91 min Feature Sirens Rita Baghdadi 2022 78 min Feature The Still Side Miko Revereza & Carolina Fusilier 2021 70 min Feature The Territory Alex Pritz 2022 85 min Feature Turn Your Body to the Sun Aliona Van der Horst 2021 93 min Feature Vedette Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard 2021 99 min Feature We Met in Virtual Reality Joe Hunting 2021 91 min Feature Where Are We Headed Ruslan Fedotow 2021 63 min Feature You Can't Stop Spirit Vashni Korin 2021 16 min Short You've Never Been Completely Honest Joey Izzo 2021 11 min Short Zigipouse Alan Sahin 2021 10 min Short
2023 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program Alpha Kings Enrique Pedraza Botero & Faye Tsakas 2022 14 min Short Anhell69 Theo Montoya 2022 72 min Feature Anima Manuel Mateo Gomez 2022 19 min Short Aqueronte Manuel Muñoz Rivas 2023 26 min Short Aralkum Mila Zhluktenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi 2022 14 min Short Art Talent Show Adéla Komrzý & Tomáš Bojar 2022 102 min Feature Away Ruslan Fedotow 2022 28 min Short Bad Press Rebecca Landsberry-Baker & Joe Peeler 2022 98 min Feature True Life Fund Before It Breaks Swetha Regunathan 2022 7 min Short Bobi Wine: The People's President Christopher Sharp & Moses Bwayo 2022 114 min Feature Broca's Aphasia SU Ming-Yen 2022 85 min Feature Caballo De Espuma Juanjo Rueda 2022 20 min Short Dogwatch Gregoris Rentis 2022 78 min Feature Echo Ross McClean 2023 13 min Short The Empty Sphere Stephanie Roland 2022 19 min Short Example #35 Lucía Malandro 2022 6 min Short The Feeling of Being Close to You Ash Goh Hua 2022 12 min Short Feet in Water, Head on Fire Terra Long 2023 90 min Feature Forms of Forgetting Burak Çevik 2023 70 min Feature Gigi La Legge Alessandro Comodin 2022 102 min Feature Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster 2022 102 min Feature Going Varsity in Mariachi Alejandra Vasquez & Sam Osborn 2022 104 min Feature Guapo'y Sofia Paoli Thorne 2022 72 min Feature How to Have an American Baby Leslie Tai 2023 117 min Feature Hummingbirds Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras 2023 78 min Feature I Was Born in 1988 Yasaman Baghban 2022 9 min Short It Runs in the Family Victoria Linares Villegas 2022 84 min Feature True Vision Award Jill, Uncredited Anthony Ing 2022 18 min Short Joonam Sierra Urich 2022 103 min Feature Language Unknown Janelle VanderKelen 2022 6 min Short La Bonga Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes 2022 77 min Feature Last Things Deborah Stratman 2023 50 min Feature Love at First Byte Felizitas & Theresa Hoffmann 2022 6 min Short Mafifa Daniela Muñoz Barroso 2021 77 min Feature Man on Earth Amiel Courtin-Wilson 2022 97 min Feature Margie Soudek's Salt and Pepper Shakers Meredith Moore 2022 12 min Short Milisuthando Milisuthando Bongela 2023 128 min Feature A Moment of Innocence Mohsen Makhmalbaf 1996 78 min Feature Moomin Zach Dorn 2022 5 min Short Moosa Lane Anita Mathal Hopland 2022 87 min Feature Moune Ô Maxime Jean-Baptiste 2022 17 min Short Natalia Elizabeth Mirzaei 2022 76 min Feature No Elements Barbara Vojtašáková 2022 25 min Short Our Body Claire Simon 2022 168 min Feature Paradise Alexander Abaturov 2022 89 min Feature R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity Mohanad Yaqubi 2022 71 min Feature Ramona Victoria Linares Villegas 2023 83 min Feature Red Herring Kit Vincent 2023 94 min Feature The Stroll Kristen Lovell & Zackary Drucker 2023 85 min Feature The Taste of Mango Chloe Abrahams 2023 75 min Feature Tavuri Dervis Zaim 2022 93 min Feature Tension Envelopes Robert Greene 2023 9 min Short That Day on the River Lei Lei 2023 39 min Short Three Women Maksym Melnyk 2022 85 min Feature Tierra de Leche Milton Guillén & Fiona Hall 2022 12 min Short Time Bomb Y2K Brian Becker & Marley McDonald 2023 80 min Feature Visão do Paraíso (Vision of Paradise) Leonardo Pirondi 2022 16 min Short While the Night Falls Amir Aether Valen 2023 18 min Short Xarassi Xanne (Crossing Voices) Raphaël Grisey & Bouba Touré 2022 122 min Feature You Are Not Here Nastia Korkia 2022 16 min Short
2024 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program 1489 Shoghakat Vardanyan 2023 76 min Feature 23 Mile Mitch McCabe 2024 78 min Feature Agent of Happiness Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó 2024 94 min Feature Alien Island Cristóbal Valenzuela Berrios 2023 87 min Feature Allo la France Floriane Devigne 2023 78 min Feature Amma ki Katha Nehal Vyas 2023 21 min Short Ardent Other Alice Brygo 2022 16 min Short As the Tide Comes In Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen 2023 89 min Feature Background Khaled Abdulwahed 2023 64 min Feature A Band of Dreamers and a Judge Hesam Eslami 2023 80 min Feature Behind Closed Doors João Pedro Bim 2023 66 min Feature Boyz Sylvain Cruiziat 2023 73 min Feature Contractions Lynne Sachs 2024 12 min Short Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano Cyril Aris 2023 87 min Feature Daughters Angela Patton & Natalie Rae 2023 111 min Feature Dreams about Putin Nastia Korkia 2023 30 min Short Empty Rooms Zhenia Kazankina 2023 6 min Short L'Esquisse Tomas Cali 2023 9 min Short Familia 💖💎 Picho García & Gabriela Pena 2024 19 min Short Flying Lessons Elizabeth Nichols 2024 84 min Feature Four Holes Daniela Muñoz Barroso 2023 20 min Short Friends on the Outside Annabel Moodie 2023 10 min Short Girls State Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss 2023 96 min Feature Gwetto Michaël Andrianaly 2023 52 min Feature True Vision Award Headshot Dominic Yarabe 2023 8 min Short I Am the Immaculate Conception Frank Eli Martin 2023 17 min Short I Like It Here Ralph Arlyck 2022 88 min Feature I Would've Been Happy Jordan Wong 2023 9 min Short Ibelin Benjamin Ree 2024 104 min Feature Junior Tu Papá Daniel Díaz 2024 16 min Short K-Family Affairs Arum Nam 2023 86 min Feature The Lady with Lipstick Francesca Coppola 2023 9 min Short Look Into My Eyes Lana Wilson 2023 107 min Feature Magic Mountain Mariam Chachia & Nik Voigt 2023 74 min Feature The Medallion Ruth Hunduma 2023 19 min Short Night Audit Ryan Ross 2023 15 min Short Nofinofy Michaël Andrianaly 2019 73 min Feature Nortel Evan Gareth Hoffman 2023 15 min Short Obsolete Sumira Roy 2023 64 min Feature On the Battlefield Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki, Ray Whitaker 2024 13 min Short The Other Profile Armel Hostiou 2023 82 min Feature Personal Mythologies Susan O'Brien 2024 5 min Short A Photographic Memory Rachel Elizabeth Seed 2024 87 min Feature POV Memory Igor Smola 2023 13 min Short Queen's Crochet Hanna Cho 2023 36 min Short Roberto Baggio Henrique Cartaxo 2023 7 min Short Seeking Mavis Beacon Jazmin Jones 2024 102 min Feature Spermworld Lance Oppenheim 2024 84 min Feature sr Lea Hartlaub 2024 103 min Feature Strong Grandma Cecilia Brown & Winslow Crane-Murdoch 2023 15 min Short There Was, There Was Not Emily Mkrtichian 2024 90 min Feature This Is Going to Be Big Thomas Charles Hyland 2023 100 min Feature Three Promises Yousef Srouji 2023 61 min Feature True Life Fund Tilted Arc Baxter Stein 2023 14 min Short Todisoa and the Black Stones Ruth Hunduma 2013 26 min Short Tokyo Story Yasujirō Ozu 1953 136 min Feature Two Sun Blair Barnes 2023 5 min Short Union Stephen Maing & Brett Story 2024 104 min Feature Yintah Jennifer Wickham , Brenda Michell & Michael Toledano 2024 125 min Feature
2025 Title Director (s) Year Runtime Type Program A Body to Live In Angelo Madsen 2025 98 min Feature A Want In Her Myrid Carten 2024 81 min Feature Abo Zaabal 89 Bassam Mortada 2024 83 min Feature Animal Eye Carlo Nasisse 2024 13 min Short Another Rapid Event Daniel Murphy 2024 8 min Short Biir Bentley Brown & Tahir Ben Mahamat 2025 6 min Short Blue Derek Jarman 1993 76 min Feature True Vision Award Program Chimera Martin Andre & Gael Jara 2024 11 min Short Correct Me If I’m Wrong Hao Zhou 2025 23 min Short Daily Worker Ting Su 2024 10 min Short David (for now) Humberto Flores Jáuregui 2024 15 min Short Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco & Davis Guggenheim 2024 100 min Feature Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune Dominic Yarabe 2024 18 min Short Expression of Illness Bryn Silverman 2024 21 min Short Family Album Laura Casabé 2024 73 min Feature Hold Me Close Aurora Brachman & LaTajh Simmons-Weaver 2025 19 min Short Hope Chest Lily Franck 2024 4 min Short How Deep is Your Love Eleanor Mortimer 2025 100 min Feature How the West Was Fun Sarah Garrahan & Sue Ding 2025 14 min Short How to Build A Library Maia Lekow and Christopher King 2025 103 min Feature John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens 2025 89 min Feature Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices) Maxime Jean-Baptiste 2024 77 min Feature Land With No Rider Tamar Lando 2025 76 min Feature Lanawaru Angello Faccini Rueda 2024 15 min Short Light Memories Misha Vallejo Prut 2024 80 min Feature Make It Look Real Danial Shah 2024 68 min Feature May the Soil Be Everywhere Yehui Zhao 2024 96 min Feature Middletown Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine 2025 111 min Feature Mountain Village Hu Sanshou 2013 70 min Feature True Vision Award Program No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here) Enrique Pedráza-Botero 2024 19 min Short Piñata Prayers Daniel Larios 2025 24 min Short Predators David Osit 2025 96 min Feature Psychedelic in the Sky Matthew Salton 2024 11 min Short Razeh-del Maryam Tafakory 2024 28 min Short Requiem for a Tribe Marjan Khosravi 2024 70 min Feature Resurrection Hu Sanshou 2024 113 min Feature True Vision Award Program River of Grass Sasha Wortzel 2025 83 min Feature Sally Cristina Costantini 2025 103 min Feature Seeds Brittany Shyne 2025 122 min Feature Sunset and the Mockingbird Jyllian Gunther 2025 29 min Short Te Amo Tanto Pero Eres Tan Difícil (I Love You So Much But You Are So Difficult) Berenicé Brino 2024 14 min Short Tessitura Lydia Cornett and Brit Fryer 2024 18 min Short The Dating Game Violet Du Feng 2025 90 min Feature The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing Theo Panagopoulos 2024 17 min Short The Silence of My Hands Manuel Acuña A 2024 80 min Feature The Track Ryan Sidhoo 2025 91 min Feature True Life Fund The Undergrowth Macu Machín 2024 72 min Feature The Wolves Always Come at Night Gabrielle Brady 2024 96 min Feature Trapstarz Gonçalo Loureiro 2024 23 min Short Valentina and the MUOSters Francesca Scalisi 2024 80 min Feature Wishing on a Star Peter Kerekes 2024 99 min Feature Writing Hawa Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori 2024 85 min Feature WTO/99 Ian Bell 2025 100 min Feature Your Harvest May Be Delayed Ahmad Al-Zu'bi 2024 15 min Short Zodiac Killer Project Charlie Shackleton 2025 92 min Feature
True/False includes films by local and international filmmakers, with thousands of films being sent in each year for consideration.
True Vision Award The True/False Film Fest offers a single award. The True Vision Award is given annually to the filmmaker, or filmmakers, whose work shows a dedication to the creative advancement of the art of nonfiction filmmaking. Each winner is presented with an original bronze sculpture, created by nationally known Columbia artist Larry Young.
*The newest film presented by the chosen winner in each year's festival.
True Life Fund Since 2007, the True/False Film Fest has also featured the True Life Fund, a fundraising program which goes to demonstrate that documentaries can create change by offering tangible assistance to the real-life subjects of a new non-fiction film each year. The fund further acknowledges that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories provided by people of often limited means. The True Life Fund was presented by The Crossing (a Missouri church group) from 2009-2020 and also received support from the Bertha Foundation.
Year Film Director(s) Funds Raised Supported Cause 2007 We Are Together Paul Taylor $8,500 Purchase school supplies for the Children of Agape singing choir of South Africa. [ 17] 2008 Very Young Girls David Schisgall $9,000 Provide services to girls recovering from the trauma of sexual exploitation, through GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Service). 2009 Burma VJ Anders Østergaard $9,000 Purchase equipment for underground journalists in Burma. 2010 Enemies of the People Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin $10,000 Help efforts to interview former members of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. [ 18] 2011 The Interrupters Steve James $15,000 Help Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra of the anti-violence group CeaseFire . 2012 Bully Lee Hirsch $30,000 Help the five families featured in the film, which were victimized by bullying. [ 18] 2013 Restrepo Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington $36,760 Support RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) and The Milton Margai School for the Blind. [ 18] 2014 Private Violence Cynthia Hill $23,000 Support the work of Deanna Walters, Kit Gruelle, Stacy Cox and Naomi Jean Kilpatrick. 2015 The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer $35,000 Support Adi Rukun's efforts to open an optometry shop in Indonesia. 2016 Sonita Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami $43,000 Provide assistance for Sonita, an Afghani musician and undocumented Iranian immigrant. 2017 Quest Jonathan Olshefski $34,750 Support Christopher and Christine'a Rainey's in-home studio for North Philadelphia neighborhood recording artists. 2018 Primas Laura Bari $25,000 Support Rocío and Aldana's future artistic and collegiate endeavors. [ 19] 2019 Midnight Traveler Hassan Fazili [To Be Announced] Help alleviate legal expenses, and support them in setting up their new home 2020 Welcome to Chechnya David France [To Be Announced] 2021 Sabaya Hogir Hirori [To Be Announced] 2022 The Territory Alex Pritz [To Be Announced] 2023 Bad Press Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler [To Be Announced] 2024 Three Promises Yousef Srouji [To Be Announced] 2025 The Track Ryan Sidhoo [To Be Announced]
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