True/False Films

Profiling

In person: directors Tony Massil (Forty Men for the Yukon), Charlene Music (Roz and Joshua), Kelcey Edwards (Ghost in the Material) and Lindsey Dryden (Close Your Eyes and Look at Me)

These intimate portraits bringing a diverse group of characters to life. Roz and Joshua (3 min.) uses grainy black-and-white imagery as a testament to the grit and perseverance of a woman who lives in her car, trying to achieve her biggest goal: becoming a mother again to her son. Forty Men for the Yukon (20 min.) introduces to the northern "outback" and two hardscrabble men, one who runs a gold mine, the other a bar. Bill McFadyen, a 73-year-old weightlifter, stars in Ma Bar (dir. Finlay Pretsell, 11 min.), an evenly paced and dreamlike film that follows McFadyen as he trains and competes to become Scotland's world champion weightlifter. Close Your Eyes and Look at Me (6 min.) follows an Edinburgh woman as she shares her thoughts on wearing a hijab, dislodging our preconceptions about the Islamist approach to humility and gender. In Ghost in the Material, William Noguera, a death row inmate at San Quentin, creates art that maintains his connection to the world outside. And the stereotype-shattering Skin (dir. Rhys Graham, 27 min.) explores the art of tattoo by focusing on 62-year-old Geoff, who covers his body with a "suit of flowers" while seeking to preserve his skin for eternity.