‘Weiner’
The True/False Film Festival has revealed the lineup for its 13th installment, with highlights including the Anthony Weiner doc Weiner, the Helmut Berger doc (and John Waters‘ top film of 2015) Helmut Berger, Actor, and Sherpa, a look at the strenuous lives of the sherpas of Mt. Everest.
The True/False Festival runs from March 3rd – 6th in Columbia, Missouri. Take a look below for the complete features lineup and be sure to click here to check out the official web site.
Another Country (dir. Molly Reynolds)
Aboriginal 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.
The Bad Kids (dirs. Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe)
At an isolated, alternative high school, a firebrand principal tests the limits of tough love working with teenagers considered to be lost causes.
Behemoth (dir. Zhao Liang)
With 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.
Between Sisters (dir. Manu Gerosa)
Teresa and Ornella are sisters utterly devoted to one another despite a deeply buried secret between them.
Cameraperson (dir. Kirsten Johnson)
A profoundly compassionate globe-trotting memoir from behind the camera, bearing witness to the highs and lows of the human experience.
Fear of 13 (dir. David Sington)
Death row inmate Nick Yarris has the presence and poise of a Shakespearean thespian. But can he be believed?
Helmut Berger, Actor (dir. Andreas Horvath)
The most beautiful actor of his day is now a glorious wreck, and a trip to St. Tropez won’t cure his ills.
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (dir. Abbas Fahdel)
This landmark epic is an immersive profile of one Iraqi family before and after the 2003 occupation.
The Illinois Parables (dir. Deborah Stratman)
Archival and original 16mm footage mesh with visionary sound design, as the singular Deborah Stratman tells a counter-narrative to how the Midwest was won.
Jim: The James Foley Story (dir. Brian Oakes)
Memorializing James Foley, a photojournalist who rushed both headlong and heroically into war zones.
Kate Plays Christine (dir. Robert Greene)
This 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.
The Land of the Enlightened (dir. Pieter-Jan De Pue)
A boy’s life, Afghani style, as a merry band of marauders extort, scavenge, and traverse a beautiful, bombed-out dreamscape.
The Last Days of Winter (dir. Mehrdad Oskouei)
The precursor to Starless Dreams – seven young Iranian detainees spill their secrets and their passions to True Vision award winner Mehrdad Oskouei.
Life, Animated (dir. Roger Ross Williams)
An enchanted, inspiring, true-life fairy tale: Owen Suskind struggles to speak until he finds his eccentric mentors, a band of Disney sidekicks.
Michael Shannon Michael Shannon John (dir. Chelsea McMullan)
Canadian siblings seek to solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance – and learn what fate befell this charming rogue.
The Music of Strangers (dir. Morgan Neville)
Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble are on an uplifting mission to connect the world through music.
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (dirs. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady)
Sitcom king Norman Lear single-handedly revolutionized television. But what has he done lately?
Nosotras·Ellas (dir. Julia Pesce)
Julia Pesce tenderly films her family’s intimate moments – nine women sharing a summer idyll in Argentina.
O Futebol (dir. Sergio Oksman)
A reunited father and son seek an elusive epiphany during the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo.
The Other Side (dir. Roberto Minervini)
Addiction, bigotry, and zealotry are set against the abiding love of family in the rubbed-raw intimacy of Roberto Minervini’s latest.
The Pearl (dirs. Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca)
In a world far from glossy magazines featuring Laverne Cox, four middle-aged transgender women struggle to find recognition, refuge, and love.
Peter and the Farm (dir. Tony Stone)
Back-to-the-lander Peter Dunning has become one with his Vermont farm, perched somewhere between paradise and hell.
Presenting Princess Shaw (dir. Ido Haar)
Singer-songwriter Princess Shaw aspires to greatness, but is anyone listening?
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (dir. Brett Story)
This impressionistic, piercing essay reveals a prison-industrial complex tightly woven into the the fabric of American life.
Secret Screening Aqua
The director recovers his castaway childhood by drawing on a vast archive of videotapes.
Secret Screening Navy
This blood-boiling essay about technology run amok pivots from bedrooms to backrooms.
Secret Screening Scarlet
Every emotion heightened, every moment vital, every connection new and electric.
Sherpa (dir. Jennifer Peedom)
In this visually soaring adventure, a tragic Mt. Everest avalanche exposes the relentless strains placed upon the guides.
Sonita (dir. Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami)
Dead-set against being sold as a bride, a feisty Afghan refugee breaks loose to become a rapper.
Starless Dreams (dir. Mehrdad Oskouei)
In this emotionally charged masterpiece, a group of underage female convicts dream of escaping the detention center and returning to their families.
Those Who Jump (dirs. Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner and Abou Bakar Sidibé)
In the mountain range between Morocco and Spain, thousands of men prepare to scale the imposing fences that stand between them and Europe.
Thy Father’s Chair (dirs. Antonio Tibaldi and Alex Lora)
Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment – until concerned neighbors intercede.
Tickled (dirs. David Farrier and Dylan Reeve)
This news-of-the-weird story about a fringe sport morphs into a twisty tale of obsession, exploitation, sex, and blackmail.
Untitled Ramona Diaz Project – Work in Progress
From kangaroo moms to lost babies, there are dozens of stories in the world’s largest maternity ward.
Weiner (dirs. Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg)
This raucous, fast-paced profile gets up close and personal as it encounters the exploits of dethroned New York politician Anthony Weiner.
