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PrintBelow is the list of documentary films slated for the 2010 True/False Film Festival, Feb. 25-28 in Columbia. With each film is a listing of artists, subjects, who will attend the screening and a short description of the film from the festival directors. Below each one, Missourian editors have compiled links to other information online about the film. Attending True/False?
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And Everything Is Going Fine
w/ subject Kathie Russo and producer Amy Hobby
For two-and-a-half decades, Spalding Gray mined the details of his life to provide comedic commentary on the subjects of art, sex, family and mortality – but a 2001 car crash changed everything. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- Variety.com: Film is Gray's last chance of being on screen
- Russo says film is putting the pieces of Gray together
Antoine
w/ director Laura Bari
Antoine is a 5-year-old in Montreal who of late has become a detective, and he's hot on the trail of a disappearing woman named Madame Rouski. (More.)
As Lilith (sneak preview)
w/ director Eytan Harris
In this surreal dark comedy, an Orthodox Jewish organization and an eccentric Israeli mother lock horns over the remains of her teenage daughter's body. (More.)
The British in Bed (sneak preview)
w/ director Pippa Robinson
Disarming confessions from eight couples sitting up in bed. (More.)
Circo (sneak preview)
w/ director Aaron Schock
The Ponce family's traveling circus has journeyed throughout rural Mexico for generations, but mounting debt and a difficult nomadic lifestyle threaten to halt the grand tradition. (More.)
Colony (sneak preview)
w/ director Carter Gunn
The disappearance of the honeybee population is one of the most vexing mysteries of our time, and this artful film begins to unravel it. (More.)
Cowboys in India (sneak preview)
w/ director Simon Chambers
A filmmaker's hoped-for expose of a Western mining company results in a comedy of errors involving his relationship with his Indian driver and guide. (More.)
Dinner Party (shorts program)
w/ director Amy Grappell
LSD athletes, camel herders, karaoke kids and salacious swingers – these are your guests at this specially made "dinner party." (More.)
Disorder (sneak preview)
w/ director Huang Weikai
A scary, surreal survey of Guangzhou, China, as if "Eraserhead" were a documentary. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- MercuryNews.com: Film explores the disorder in Chinese society
- Synopsis from Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival
Enemies of the People
w/ directors Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin
On a mission to investigate and to also forgive the brutal murderers who perpetrated the Killing Fields of Cambodia, journalist Thet Sambath is seeking truth and reconciliation. This is the True Life Fund selection, and the festival hopes to raise $10,000 to benefit Sambath. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- Screendaily.com: Film is "heart-wrenching"
- Film follows Sambath's memories of the Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s
Familia (sneak preview)
w/ directors Mikael Wistrom and Alberto Herskovits
A warts-and-all look at 30 years in a single Peruvian family's life. (More.)
Familia from Mikael Wiström on Vimeo.
GasLand
w/ director Josh Fox
Natural gas exploration in the U.S. isn't so natural after all, Josh Fox learns, as he sets out to expose a rapacious industry before it lays waste to his beloved river valley. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- Indiwire: Film is "first-person activist filmmaking done right"
- The film's Web site
CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER? from JOSHFOX on Vimeo.
Greetings From the Woods (sneak preview)
w/ director Mikel Cee Karlsson
A Swedish director captures life in his eccentric hometown. (More.)
HolyWars (sneak preview)
w/ director Stephen Marshall
An Irish convert to Islam faces off with an evangelical Christian. Will either budge? (More.)
How to Fold a Flag
w/ co-director Petra Epperlein
We go beyond the body count as we track returnees from a Latino cage fighter to a Congressional candidate. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- Huffington Post: Film shines "searing light" on returning soldiers' challenges
- The film's Web site
How to Fold a Flag from Pepper and Bones on Vimeo.
Identity Crisis (shorts program)
w/ director Jay Rosenblatt
Identity crises from around the globe including a deer who thinks he's a cow, the story of how Ernest Hemingway created Hemingway and a teenager at a crossroads. (More.)
Invention of Dr. NakaMats (sneak preview)
w/ director Kaspar Astrup Schroder
Meet the crackpot inventor responsible for 357 inventions, including the floppy disk, in his almost 80 years. (More.)
It Felt Like a Kiss (sneak preview)
w/ director Adam Curtis
Ike & Tina Turner, the space chimp, Nikita Khrushchev, Saddam Hussein, Little Eva, the CIA and Rock Hudson all play parts in Adam Curtis' jaw-dropping mash-up of 50 years of empire building and storytelling. (More.)
Kati With An I (sneak preview)
w/ director Robert Greene and d.p. Sean Price Williams
A dreamy, intimate portrait of a small-town teenage girl wrestling with her future. (More.)
KATI WITH AN I trailer from prewarcinema on Vimeo.
Kick In Iran
w/ director Fatima Geza Abdollahyan
The changing face of Iran as seen through a portrait of tae kwon do star Sarah Khoshjamal, the country's first female Olympic qualifier. (More.)
Last Train Home
w/ director Lixin Fan
An epic adventure movie about one family's place amongst the 120 million people in China who return from the factories in coastal cities to their vilages in the interior. (More.)
The Mirror
w/ director David Christensen
A loving and humorous portrait of a small Italian village and their plan to build a giant mirror. (More.)
The Mirror (Lo Specchio) - Trailer from David Christensen on Vimeo.
My Country, My Country
w/ director Laura Poitras
In this visionary film by our True Vision honoree, an Iraqi doctor and political candidate struggles with the chaos that has engulfed his country. (More.)
- New York Times: Film is sensitive and mournful
- Los Angeles Times: Working solo maximized Poitras' access
- Film's Web site (including trailer)
The Oath
w/ director Laura Poitras
A Yemeni taxi driver struggles with his past ties to Bin Laden and a brother-in-law who is imprisoned at Gitmo. (More.)
- IMDB entry for the film
- Hollywood Reporter: Film fails to answer all the questions is poses
- Film wins award at the Sundance Film Festival
- Sundance synopsis (with trailer)
The Other Side of Life (sneak preview)
w/ directors Andy Wolff and Stefanie Brockhaus
A stunning film following two brothers in Cape Town, South Africa, accused of murder. (More.)
Rachel Is
w/ director Charlotte Glynn
A warm-hearted look at Rachel, a mentally challenged teenager, as she and her mother Jane struggle to find independent living options. (More.)
Racing Dreams
w/ director Marshall Curry
With dreams of NASCAR dancing in their heads, three tweens compete on the national go-kart circuit. (More.)
The Red Chapel
w/ director Mads Brugger
A devilishly absurdist road trip inside the heart of North Korea's evil empire. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- Daily Caller: Film 'thoroughly fascinating'
- Film wins World Cinema Jury Prize for Documentaries at Sundance
Restrepo
w/ co-director Tim Hetherington
An immersive journey with an American platoon inside the one of the most dangerous combat zones in Afghanistan. (More.)
- Film wins Sundance's Grand Jury Prize
- ScreenCrave.com: Film earns 8 out of 10
- Vanity Fair: Interview with co-director Sebastian Junger
- Documentary Blog: 'Empathetic and informative'
Smash His Camera
w/ director Leon Gast and producer Adam Schlesinger
Ron Galella was the original American paparazzo, a social pariah and celebrity scourge. But at 79, he now feels like more of a pop idol himself and, surprisingly, an artist. (More.)
- IMDB entry for film
- IndieWire: Film successfully captures subject's legacy
- Roger Ebert on Ron Galella
- View clips from film
Someone to Watch Over (shorts program)
w/ director Melanie Levy
This shorts compilation goes from Bobcat Goldthwait's behind-the-scenes look of his childhood home movies to the unfathomable journeys that parents of disappeared children endure. (more)
Those Who Remain
w/ co-director Carlos Hagerman
Two Mexican directors' sure-handed celebration of their culture, in the shadow of El Norte. (more)
- IMDB entry for film
- Imagine 2050: Film recommended for all audiences
- Film wins award at international festival in L.A.
The Tightrope (sneak preview)
w/ director Nuria Ibáñez
A Mexican circus performer is torn between family tradition and her husband's desire for an ordinary life in this exquisitely shot piece of observational filmmaking. (more)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
w/ producer Peter Schneider
Art and commerce collide inside the mouse house as Disney animation studio bounced back during a tumultuous period. (more)
- IMDB entry for film
- Hollywood Reporter: Film "entertaining" and "enlightening"
- Disney praises film's wealth of never-before-seen footage
Waste Land
w/ director Lucy Walker
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz returns to his homeland and to Jardim Gramacho – the largest garbage dump in the world. (more)
- IMDB entry for film
- Sundance calls film a wonderfully resonant documentary
- Director Lucy Walker discusses film-making
When We Were Boys (sneak preview)
w/ director Sarah Goodman
This nostalgic, impressionistic snapshot of male adolescence captures two years in the lives of a group of Canadian prep schoolers. (more)
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