True/False Film Fest

Films Listing

American Teen: The true story of high school, told with the narrative and visual flair of a Hollywood film.
An Alternative to Slitting Your Wrist: Sneak preview. After attempting to take his own life, Owen Lowery writes a list of 52 things to do as an alternative to suicide and begins to go through them, camera in hand.
Audience of One: God told Richard Gazowsky, pentecostal preacher, to make a $100 million dollar sci-fi epic. This is his story.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*: LATE ADD! A highly entertaining look at the past, present and future of steroid use in America — with the filmmaker's own family as both guides and guinea pigs.
Carny: Work in progress. Unusual access to the lives and loves of those who call the midway home.
Cat Dancers: True love, big cats and shocking revelations fill this bizarrely beautiful tale.
Echoes of Home: Sneak preview. In the Swiss Alps, musical pioneers utilize their ancient singing styles to transport us to our deepest humanity.
Forbidden Lies: Sneak preview. Norma Khouri wrote a best-selling memoir about her best friend's shocking honor killing in her native Jordan — but she's also a con artist whose book may be an audacious hoax.
Girls Rock!: At the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, teenagers learn to turn up the volume, make some noise — and get empowered.
Gonzo: The most gifted journalist of his time, Hunter S. Thompson veered wildly from inspiration to dissolution, and Alex Gibney follows his careening journey.
The Greening of Southie: Sneak preview. The surprising challenges and contradictions of green building in a film that follows the construction of Boston's first LEED-eligible residential tower, built in the city's working class heart.
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go: Sneak preview. England's worst pre-teen offenders are sent to a school that offers them their only hope before a life in prison.
How I Am: Work in progress. The innermost thoughts of a young autistic man reveals a complex, philosophical soul. Plays with Peter & Ben, about a man and a sheep who leave the flock, and The Days and Hours, about a remarkable church that lets the homeless sleep in the pews.
I Think We're Alone Now: Obsessive fans of Tiffany bare their souls in this funny-except-when-it's-gut-wrenching story.
Joy Division: Sneak preview. The true story of the legendary band whose improbable, brief rise may well have resuscitated the dying industrial town of Manchester, England.
Knee Deep: An exploration of an attempted matricide in a small Maine farming village
Life. Support. Music.: Work in progress. Jason Crigler was a successful New York musician when he collapsed on stage. Doctors said he wouldn't recover but his family never gave up hope.
Lucio: Sneak preview. An unassuming Spanish bricklayer was also one of the most important anarchists of the 20th century, bankrolling numerous guerrilla groups through his mastery of counterfeiting.
Man on Wire: In this nail-biting, inspirational tale, we get immersed in the world's greatest high-wire exploit ever, as French acrobat Philippe Petit walked from one Twin Tower to the other.
The Man Who Ate Badgers (and other tales from the British Isles): Sneak preview. Odd tales from the British Isles: A man who specializes in eating roadkill, secret dreams of crane operators, a batty plant-lover, and a look inside a denture factory.
The Mosquito Problem (and other stories): Sneak preview. With a nuclear power plant, mass murder, mosquitoes — and a past that must be forgotten, Belene, Bulgaria has it all, and this film takes it all in with a sharp eye for absurdity.
The Mother: Work in progress. An exquisitely filmed look at the lives of Russian peasants that plays like the best kind of European art film.
My Mother's Garden: The story of the filmmaker's mom, whose desire to hoard objects has become a dangerous disorder, making it necessary for her family to intervene.
The Order of Myths: Mobile, Alabama has the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in America. Its filled with ritual and, to this day, racially segregated.
Oscar Shorts: All four 2008 Oscar-nominated short documentaries.
Paradise — 3 Journeys in this World: Sneak preview. From a village in Mali to the tomato greenhouse factories of Spain, a young man's journey illustrates the African diaspora.
Please Vote For Me: This hilarious, thrilling, and touching film explores China's democratic reforms through the lens of an intensely fought election to become the monitor for one elementary school class.
Secret Screening (Blue): Hidden memories and half-truths about the history of a cold Canadian town from the mind of a legendary filmmaker.
Secret Screening (Green): This film's subject may seem like a homeless man with a funny voice, but he's also a humanitarian who has performed plastic surgery on more than 140,000 Indians with facial deformities.
Secret Screening (Red): The Iraq War has been a tragedy for most, but not for one merchant who traffics in armored cars.
Shake the Devil Off: St. Augustine Church in New Orleans helped birth jazz and gospel, but even with a fabled history and a charismatic leader, the archdiocese wants to shut it down.
Song Sung Blue: Lightning and Thunder were Milwaukee's greatest Neil Diamond tribute act. Until tragedy struck.
Sons of a Gun: Work in progress. A wry look at a new kind of family — a retired LAPD inspector who takes three schizophrenic men under his wing.
Stranded: The TRUE tale of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crash-landed in the Andes, told by the survivors.
Summer Sun Winter Moon: Work in progress. When the St. Louis Symphony commissions a new work commemorating the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark, the composer struggles, until he finds a writer from the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana, who comes on as librettist.
Taxi to the Dark Side: This provocative, Oscar-nominated doc examines a controversial incident where an Afghan taxi driver was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers.
To Have and To Hold: These five beautiful films explore issues of love and loss. Includes My Olympic Summer, Through Fire and Water, Bulletproof Vest, Loss, and One Day.
Very Young Girls: Sneak preview. The average age of entry into prostitution in the US is thirteen. This is the story of some of those girls.
Working Title: Inspired scenes from the working life, including The Tailor, Wood, Shika Shika, 34x25x36, and The Breadmakers.