True/False Films

Extremities

In person: directors Gonzalo Escobar Mora (Accidentally Sprayed) and Pawel Ferdek (Glass Trap)

This sensational world tour hangs with gangsters in Poland, shoppers in a vast Chinese mall, blind people in Brazil and coca farmers in Colombia. Guy Ritchie meets National Geographic in Glass Trap (dir. Pawel Perdek, 14 min.), a balls-to-the-wall look at flashy gangsters with a thing for fighting goldfish. The lyrical Super-8 journey Dreznika (dir. Anna Azevedo, 14 min.) reveals the dreams and memories of several blind people. In the eerie Accidentally Sprayed (27 min.), a young Colombian filmmaker explores the fumigation of his country's coca crops by fusing classic muckraking with a hip and stylish storytelling technique. Sam Green (Weather Underground) and Carrie Lozano take us to The World's Largest Shopping Mall (12 min.), which has everything going for it but customers. Plays with Third Coast International Audio Festival short Forest to Desert (dir. Sarah Boothroyd, 3 min.), an audio doodle about this phrase: "Humankind is preceded by forest, and followed by desert."