True/False Film Festival
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| Location | Columbia, Missouri, United States |
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| Hosted by | The Ragtag Film Society |
| Festival date | February 29, 2024-March 3, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
True/False Film Fest is an annual documentary film festival that takes place in Columbia, Missouri. The Fest occurs on the first weekend in March (sometimes beginning in late February), with films being shown from Thursday evening to Sunday night. Films are screened at multiple locations around downtown Columbia, including Ragtag Cinema, Jesse Hall, Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, The Picturehouse, The Blue Note, The Globe, Rhynsburger Theater and the Forrest Theater in the Tiger Hotel. It offers one award each year, the True Vision Award.
True/False Film Fest and Ragtag Cinema are programs of the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the Ragtag Film Society. Ragtag Film Society seeks to champion independent film and media art and to serve film communities both locally and globally.
History[edit]
True/False was started by Paul Sturtz and David Wilson (who also founded the Ragtag Cinema) in February 2004.[1] In 2006, it won the Riverfront Times best film festival.[2] In 2008, the film fest lost 1,200 seats due to the renovation work taking place at the Missouri Theatre. To adjust for the loss, the fest expanded beyond its usual boundaries in order to take advantage of additional screens at Macklanburg Cinema, Windsor Cinema, and The Den on the campus of Stephens College. After the completion of its restoration, the historic Missouri Theatre was once again a featured venue for the 2009 edition of the fest.[3] The True/False Film Fest and Stephens College amicably ended their partnership after the 2011 fest, and Stephens College continued to host the annual Citizen Jane Film Festival through its demise in 2018.[4]
The 2021 edition of the festival was moved to outdoor venues in nearby Stephens Lake Park due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] In addition to moving the event outdoors, they also brought festival boxes straight to the doors of pass holders. [6] The event made its return to downtown Columbia setting 2022.
Growth[edit]
The first True/False Film Festival in 2004 sold 4,200 tickets and the fest has since experienced rapid growth, increasing attendance by 25% or more in all but two years through its first decade.[7] Since then, the festival has increased attendance each year with the exception of 2014, which saw a 3% decrease amid a winter snowstorm.[7][8] The latest event in 2017 saw another record high in ticket sales, nearly 3,000 more than 2016.[9][10]
Over the years, the festival has expanded its presentation of other arts, including music and decorative art.[11][12] The event kicks off with a parade, the "March March," and ends with "Buskers Last Stand," in which many of the invited musicians come together for a closing performance. It encourages additional attendee involvement through participatory events like the "True Life 5K run,"[13] and the "Gimme Truth!" game show. The festival has risen from its meager origins to earn praise from both the Chicago Tribune[14] and Los Angeles Times.[15]
In 2019, the festival received thousands of submissions and sold over 54,000 tickets, bringing thousands of people to mid-Missouri from around the world. The festival is sponsored by almost every downtown store, restaurant and bar, and has multiple educational events such as Camp True/False and BOATS for both local & national high schools, year-long film programs, and more.
Education[edit]
Media Literacy Initiative[edit]
In early 2016, Columbia Public Schools, Ragtag Film Society, and the Columbia Public Schools Foundation announced a new, landmark multi-year partnership that brings together film, the CPS curriculum, and teacher training. The Media Literacy initiative is a year-round program that supports teacher efforts to incorporate more film and multimedia into their classrooms.
The program champions the belief that as students catapult into a world of ever-changing media, distribution platforms, and news outlets, the skills to be thoughtful, critical consumers of media must grow. Students deserve the tools to think consciously about the ways their world is presented to them and the ways they present their world. The primary goals are to increase the presence of film in core classrooms, help teachers and students learn to read film as text, and to cultivate and enhance critical thinking skills as teachers and students practice analyzing new media.
Camp True/False[edit]
Camp True/False brings high school students with varying interests insider access to the fest for a weekend of exciting films, music, art, conversations and workshops with a diverse crew of exceptional guests and local hosts. Camp True/False convenes before the Fest to discuss relevant issues, share research and plot their course. Participating students get a chance to meet the founders of the festival and meet with directors of the films showing at the festival in a private, personal manner. The camp is completely free for the students, who are selected through an application process in November. All Columbia Public Schools participate, as well as 10 out-of-town schools (4 of those, out-of-state). In 2019, the camp included around 80 high schoolers, including 30 local students and 50 students from nearby and national areas. Students from Saint Louis, Jefferson City, North Carolina, New Mexico, and more attended the 4 day camp. Application are typically due about a month before the festival starts. [16]
DIY Day[edit]
On the Friday morning of the Fest, 10th graders from across all four Columbia public high schools take buses to a True/False venue where their nonfiction cinema & art experience begins! The students watch buskers and a festival film (listed below, by year), and students are encouraged to participate in a Q&A with the filmmaker. Afterward, 200 self-selected students attend interactive artist workshops and join in the anyone-can-join March March parade.
Educational Screening Films[edit]
The Educational Screenings are a special screening for local high school sophomores as a field trip to watch one film from the festival for free.
2024: Girls State, dir. Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
2023: Let the Little Light Shine, dir. Kevin Shaw
2022: Step, dir. Amanda Lipitz
2021: Undefeated, dir. Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
2020: The Order of Myths, dir. Margaret Brown
2019: Amazing Grace, guest Dr. King
2018: Won't You Be My Neighbor?, dir. Morgan Neville
2017: I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck
2016: The Bad Kids, dir. Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
2015: What Happened Miss Simone?, dir. Liz Garbus
2014: Particle Fever, dir. Mark Levinson
2013: Crash Reel dir. Lucy Walker
Films[edit]
2017[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus: Small Enough to Jail | 2017 | Steve James | 2017 | 88 min | Feature | |
| All Good Things | 2017 | Chloe Domont | 2017 | 26 min | Short | The New Family |
| Antonio, Dashing Antonio | 2017 | Ana Maria Gomez | 2017 | 42 min | Short | Edith + Eddie + Antonio |
| Balloonfest | 2017 | Nathan Truesdell | 2017 | 6 min | Short | The World Laughs With You |
| Best of Luck with the Wall | 2017 | Josh Begley | 2017 | 7 min | Short | Making Good Neighbors |
| Brief History of Princess X | 2017 | Gabriel Abrantes | 7 min | Short | ||
| Brimstone & Glory | 2017 | Viktor Jakovleski | 2017 | 67 min | Feature | |
| Casting JonBenet | 2017 | Kitty Green | 2017 | 80 min | Feature | |
| The Challenge | 2017 | Yuri Ancarani | 2016 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Commodity City | 2017 | Jessica Kingdon | 2016 | 10 min | Short | |
| Communion | 2017 | Anna Zamecka | 2016 | 77 min | Feature | |
| Deer Squad: The Movie | 2017 | Pipus Larsen, Kenneth Gug, & Scott J. Ross | 2017 | 5 min | Short | |
| Describe What You Heard | 2017 | Joe Callander & Jason Tippet | 2017 | 3 min | Short | |
| Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | 2017 | Travis Wilkerson | 2017 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Dina | 2017 | Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini | 2017 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Distant Constellation | 2017 | Shevaun Mizrahi | 2017 | 80 min | Feature | |
| The Diver | 2017 | Esteban Arrangoiz | 2015 | 16 min | Short | |
| Donkeyote | 2017 | Chico Pereira | 2017 | 86 min | Feature | |
| Edith+Eddie | 2017 | Laura Checkoway | 2017 | 30 min | Short | |
| Fares | 2017 | Thora Lorentzen | 2016 | 21 min | Short | |
| Fish Story | 2017 | Charlie Lyne | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
| The Force | 2017 | Peter Nicks | 2017 | 93 min | Feature | |
| The Graduation | 2017 | Claire Simon | 2016 | 120 min | Feature | |
| The Grown-Ups | 2017 | Maite Alberdi | 2016 | 83 min | Feature | |
| Gulîstan, Land of Roses | 2017 | Zaynê Akyol | 2016 | 84 min | Feature | |
| Happy Happy Baby | 2017 | Jan Soldat | 2017 | 22 min | Short | |
| The Hollow Coin | 2017 | Frank Heath | 2016 | 13 min | Short | |
| HyperNormalisation | 2017 | Adam Curtis | 2016 | 187 min | Feature | |
| I Am Not Your Negro | 2017 | Raoul Peck | 2016 | 93 min | Feature | |
| If Only There Were Peace | 2017 | Carmine Grimaldi & Deniz Tortum | 2017 | 30 min | Short | |
| Koropa | 2017 | Laura Henno | 2016 | 19 min | Short | |
| Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2 | 2017 | Florent Vassault | 2017 | 84 min | Feature | |
| Long Strange Trip | 2017 | Amir Bar-Lev | 2017 | 259 min | Feature | |
| LoveTrue | 2017 | Alma Har'el | 2016 | 82 min | Feature | |
| Manifesto | 2017 | Julian Rosefeldt | 2017 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Mimi | 2017 | Claire Simon | 2003 | 105 min | Feature | True Vision |
| Miss Kiet's Children | 2017 | Petra Lataster-Czisch & Peter Lataster | 2016 | 114 min | Feature | |
| My Daughter Nora | 2017 | Jasna Krajinovic | 2016 | 16 min | Short | |
| No Man's Land | 2017 | David Byars | 2017 | 84 min | Feature | |
| one of the roughs, a kosmos | 2017 | Carmine Grimaldi | 2016 | 21 min | Short | |
| Polonaise | 2017 | Agnieszka Elbanowska | 2016 | 16 min | Short | |
| Project X | 2017 | Laura Poitras & Henrik Moltke | 2016 | 10 min | Short | |
| Quest | 2017 | Jonathan Olshefski | 2017 | 105 min | Feature | |
| The Rabbit Hunt | 2017 | Patrick Bresnan | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
| Railway Sleepers | 2017 | Sompot Chidgasornpongse | 2016 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Rat Film | 2017 | Theo Anthony | 2016 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Récréations | 2017 | Claire Simon | 1992 | 54 min | Feature | True Vision |
| The Road Movie | 2017 | Dmitrii Kalashnikov | 2016 | 72 min | Feature | |
| Safari | 2017 | Ulrich Seidl | 2016 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Servicing Guide: Fannie Mae Single Family, Subpart A4-2.1-02, Property Inspection Vendor Management and Oversight (11/12/2014) | 2017 | Carmine Grimaldi | 2016 | 13 min | Short | |
| Step | 2017 | Amanda Lipitz | 2017 | 83 min | Feature | |
| Still Tomorrow | 2017 | FAN Jian | 2016 | 88 min | Feature | |
| Stranger in Paradise | 2017 | Guido Hendrikx | 2016 | 77 min | Feature | |
| Strong Island | 2017 | Yance Ford | 2017 | 107 min | Feature | |
| Venus | 2017 | Lea Glob & Mette Carla Albrechtsen | 2016 | 80 min | Feature | |
| Whose Streets? | 2017 | Sabaah Folayan | 2016 | 104 min | Feature |
2018[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adriana's Pact | 2018 | Lissette Orozco | 2017 | 96 min | Feature | |
| América | 2018 | Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside | 2018 | 75 min | Feature | |
| American Animals | 2018 | Bart Layton | 2018 | 116 min | Feature | |
| António e Catarina | 2018 | Cristina Haneș | 2017 | 40 min | Feature | |
| Artemio | 2018 | Sandra Luz López Barroso | 2017 | 48 min | Feature | |
| The Atomic Soldiers | 2018 | Morgan Knibbe | 2018 | 23 min | Short | |
| Baby Brother | 2018 | Kamau Bilal | 2018 | 14 min | Short | |
| Bisbee '17 | 2018 | Robert Greene | 2018 | 118 min | Feature | |
| Black Mother | 2018 | Khalik Allah | 2018 | 77 min | Feature | |
| La Bouche | 2018 | Camilo Restrepo | 2017 | 19 min | Short | |
| Caniba | 2018 | Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor | 2017 | 97 min | Feature | |
| Combat Obscura | 2018 | Miles Lagoze | 2018 | 67 min | Feature | |
| Community Patrol | 2018 | Andrew James | 2018 | 13 min | Short | |
| Concussion Protocol | 2018 | Josh Begley | 2018 | 6 min | Short | |
| Crime + Punishment | 2018 | Stephen Maing | 2018 | 112 min | Feature | |
| Dessert-Disaster | 2018 | Alison Nguyen | 2017 | 2 min | Short | |
| Disintegration 93-96 | 2018 | Miko Revereza | 2017 | 6 min | Short | |
| Duelo | 2018 | Alejandro Alonso | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
| Durango | 2018 | Matt Sukkar | 2017 | 14 min | Short | |
| The Family | 2018 | Rok Biček | 2017 | 106 min | Feature | |
| Flight of a Bullet | 2018 | Beata Bubenec | 2017 | 81 min | Feature | |
| La Flor de la Vida | 2018 | Adriana Loeff & Claudia Abend | 2017 | 86 min | Feature | |
| Gabriel and the Mountain | 2018 | Fellipe Barbosa | 2017 | 131 min | Feature | |
| Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | 2018 | Sophie Fiennes | 2017 | 115 min | Feature | |
| Graven Image | 2018 | Sierra Pettengill | 2017 | 11 min | Short | |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | 2018 | RaMell Ross | 2018 | 76 min | Feature | |
| John 746 | 2018 | Ana Vijdea | 2017 | 34 min | Short | |
| Kinshasa Makambo | 2018 | Dieudo Hamadi | 2018 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Las Nubes | 2018 | Juan Pablo González | 2018 | 21 min | Short | |
| Liminals | 2018 | Jeremy Shaw | 2017 | 31 min | Short | |
| Love Means Zero | 2018 | Jason Kohn | 2018 | 89 min | Feature | |
| Lovers of the Night | 2018 | Anna Frances Ewert | 2017 | 57 min | Feature | |
| Makala | 2018 | Emmanuel Gras | 2017 | 96 min | Feature | |
| The Making and Unmaking of the Earth | 2018 | Jessica Bardsley | 2018 | 17 min | Short | |
| MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. | 2018 | Steve Loveridge | 2018 | 96 min | Feature | |
| Mini Miss | 2018 | Rachel Daisy Ellis | 2018 | 16 min | Short | |
| Mon Amour, Mon Ami | 2018 | Adriano Valerio | 2017 | 16 min | Short | |
| National Diploma | 2018 | Dieudo Hamadi | 2014 | 92 min | Feature | True Vision Award Repertory Series |
| The Next Guardian | 2018 | Dorottya Zurbó & Arun Bhattarai | 2017 | 74 min | Feature | |
| Handsworth Songs | 2018 | John Akomfrah | 1986 | 61 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
| Twilight City | 2018 | Reece Auguiste | 1989 | 53 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
| Testament | 2018 | John Akomfrah | 1988 | 79 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
| Who Needs a Heart? | 2018 | John Akomfrah | 1991 | 78 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
| Of Fathers and Sons | 2018 | Talal Derki | 2017 | 98 min | Feature | |
| Our New President | 2018 | Maxim Pozdorovkin | 2018 | 78 min | Feature | |
| Palenque | 2018 | Sebastián Pinzón Silva | 2017 | 25 min | Short | |
| Personal Truth | 2018 | Charlie Lyne | 2017 | 18 min | Short | |
| The Price of Everything | 2018 | Nathaniel Kahn | 2018 | 98 min | Feature | |
| Playing Men | 2018 | Matjaž Ivanišin | 2017 | 61 min | Feature | |
| Primas | 2018 | Laura Bari | 2017 | 100 min | Feature | True Life Fund |
| Pumpkin Movie | 2018 | Sophy Romvari | 2017 | 10 min | Short | |
| Pure Difference | 2018 | Byron Peters | 2017 | 12 min | Short | |
| The Rider | 2018 | Chloé Zhao | 2017 | 105 min | Feature | |
| Self-Portrait: Birth in 47 km | 2018 | ZHANG Mengqi | 2016 | 101 min | Feature | |
| SHAKEDOWN | 2018 | Leilah Weinraub | 2018 | 69 min | Feature | |
| Shirkers | 2018 | Sandi Tan | 2018 | 96 min | Feature | |
| Taming the Horse | 2018 | GU Tao | 2017 | 129 min | Feature | |
| The Task | 2018 | Leigh Ledare | 2017 | 120 min | Feature | |
| They Just Come and Go | 2018 | Boris Poljak | 2017 | 20 min | Short | |
| The Trader | 2018 | Tamta Gabrichidze | 2017 | 22 min | Short | |
| Three Identical Strangers | 2018 | Tim Wardle | 2018 | 96 min | Feature | |
| Voices of the Sea | 2018 | Kim Hopkins | 2018 | 99 min | Feature | |
| The Water Slide | 2018 | Nathan Truesdell | 2018 | 10 min | Short | |
| Westwood | 2018 | Lorna Tucker | 2018 | 83 min | Feature | |
| Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | Morgan Neville | 2018 | 94 min | Feature |
2019[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazing Grace | 2019 | Sydney Pollack | 2018 | 87 min | Feature | |
| American Factory | 2019 | Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert | 2019 | 115 min | Feature | |
| Apollo 11 | 2019 | Todd Douglas Miller | 2019 | 93 min | Feature | |
| Atman | 2019 | Pirjo Honkasalo | 1997 | 76 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
| Black 14 | 2019 | Darius Clark Monroe | 2018 | 15 min | Short | |
| Caballerango | 2019 | Juan Pablo González | 2018 | 60 min | Feature | |
| Celebration | 2019 | Olivier Meyrou | 2018 | 73 min | Feature | |
| The Changing Same | 2019 | Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster | 2018 | 21 min | Short | |
| Chez Jolie Coiffure | 2019 | Rosine Mbakam | 2018 | 70 min | Feature | |
| Chinese Portrait | 2019 | WANG Xiaoshuai | 2018 | 79 min | Feature | |
| Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 | Mads Brügger | 2019 | 123 min | Feature | |
| The Commons | 2019 | Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky | 2019 | 71 min | Feature | |
| Crannog | 2018 | Isa Rao | 2018 | 15 min | Short | |
| Dark Suns | 2019 | Julien Élie | 2018 | 151 min | Feature | |
| The Edge of Democracy | 2019 | Petra Costa | 2019 | 120 min | Feature | |
| Djo | 2019 | Laura Henno | 2018 | 12 min | Short | |
| Dramatic and Mild | 2019 | Nastia Korkia | 2018 | 6 min | Short | |
| Due | 2019 | Riccardo Giacconi | 2017 | 17 min | Short | |
| every dog has its day | 2019 | Alison Nguyen | 2019 | 6 min | Short | |
| Fainting Spells | 2019 | Sky Hopinka | 2018 | 11 min | Short | |
| Finding Frances | 2019 | Nathan Fielder | 2017 | 84 min | Feature | |
| The Game | 2019 | Marine de Contes | 2018 | 53 min | Feature | |
| Ghosts of Sugar Land | 2019 | Bassam Tariq | 2019 | 21 min | Short | |
| Goodbye Thelma | 2019 | Jessica Bardsley | 2019 | 14 min | Short | |
| The Grand Bizarre | 2019 | Jodie Mack | 2018 | 61 min | Feature | |
| The Harvesters | 2019 | Derek Howard | 2018 | 6 min | Short | |
| Home, Sweet Home | 2019 | ISE Shinichi | 2018 | 110 min | Feature | |
| The Hottest August | 2019 | Brett Story | 2019 | 92 min | Feature | |
| I Signed the Petition | 2019 | Mahdi Fleifel | 2018 | 10 min | Short | |
| Island of the Hungry Ghosts | 2019 | Gabrielle Brady | 2018 | 98 min | Feature | |
| Knock Down the House | 2019 | Rachel Lears | 2019 | 85 min | Feature | |
| Landless | 2019 | Camila Freitas | 2019 | 110 min | Feature | |
| Lasting Marks | 2019 | Charlie Lyne | 2018 | 14 min | Short | |
| Let It Burn | 2019 | Maíra Bühler | 2019 | 82 min | Feature | |
| The Lost Head and the Bird | 2019 | Sohrab Hura | 2018 | 10 min | Short | |
| The Magic Life of V | 2019 | Tonislav Hristov | 2019 | 85 min | Feature | |
| The Men Behind the Wall | 2019 | Inés Moldavsky | 2018 | 28 min | Short | |
| Midnight in Paris | 2019 | Roni Moore & James Blagden | 2019 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Midnight Traveler | 2019 | Hassan Fazili | 2019 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Mike Wallace is Here | 2019 | Avi Belkin | 2019 | 86 min | Feature | |
| Mysterion | 2019 | Pirjo Honkasalo | 1991 | 94 min | Feature | Neither/Nor |
| Mr. SOUL! | 2019 | Melissa Haizlip & Sam Pollard | 2018 | 115 min | Feature | |
| The Naked Room | 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | 2013 | 70 min | Feature | |
| No data plan | 2019 | Miko Revereza | 2019 | 70 min | Feature | |
| ‘Now something is slowly changing’ | 2019 | mint film office | 2018 | 105 min | Feature | |
| One Child Nation | 2019 | Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang | 2019 | 89 min | Feature | |
| Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo) | 2019 | Carlos Reygadas | 2018 | 173 min | Feature | |
| Over the Rainbow | 2019 | Jeffrey Peixoto | 2019 | 71 min | Feature | |
| Reason | 2019 | Anand Patwardhan | 2018 | 235 min | Feature | |
| Segunda Vez | 2019 | Dora Garcia | 2018 | 94 min | Feature | |
| The Tightrope | 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | 2009 | 80 min | Feature | |
| Treasure Island | 2019 | Guillaume Brac | 2018 | 97 min | Feature | |
| Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary | 2019 | Ben Berman | 2019 | 91 min | Feature | |
| Up the Mountain | 2019 | Zhang Yang | 2018 | 126 min | Feature | |
| Vesuvius at Home | 2019 | Christin Turner | 2019 | 14 min | Short | |
| Vever (for Barbara) | 2019 | Deborah Stratman | 2018 | 12 min | Short | |
| Walled/Unwalled | 2019 | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | 2018 | 20 min | Short | |
| A Wild Stream | 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | 2018 | 72 min | Feature | True Vision |
2020[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45365 | 2020 | Bill & Turner Ross | 2009 | 94 min | Feature | |
| A Machine to Live In | 2020 | Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke | 2020 | 87 min | Feature | |
| A Song About Love | 2020 | Rikki Wright | 2019 | 14 min | Short | |
| A Supa Special Wakaliwood Event for All True/False Commandos | 2020 | IGG Nabwana | 2020 | 61 min | Feature | |
| Aswang | 2020 | Alyx Ayn Arumpac | 2019 | 85 min | Feature | |
| Aurora | 2020 | Everlane Moraes | 2018 | 16 min | Short | |
| Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets | 2020 | Bill & Turner Ross | 2020 | 98 min | Feature | True Vision |
| Boys State | 2020 | Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss | 2020 | 109 min | Feature | |
| Catskin | 2020 | Ina Luchsperger | 2019 | 58 min | Feature | |
| City So Real | 2020 | Steve James | 2020 | 240 min | Feature | |
| Civil War Surveillance Poems (Part 1) | 2020 | Mitch McCabe | 2019 | 15 min | Short | |
| Collective | 2020 | Alexander Nanau | 2019 | 109 min | Feature | |
| Crestone | 2020 | Marnie Ellen Hertzler | 2020 | 73 min | Feature | |
| Crip Camp | 2020 | James LeBrecht & Nicole Newnham | 2019 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Dadli | 2020 | Shabier Kirchner | 2018 | 15 min | Short | |
| Dick Johnson Is Dead | 2020 | Kirsten Johnson | 2020 | 89 min | Feature | |
| Distancing | 2020 | Miko Revereza | 2020 | 10 min | Short | |
| Dope is Death | 2020 | Mia Donovan | 2020 | 78 min | Feature | |
| Down a Dark Stairwell | 2020 | Ursula Liang | 2020 | 83 min | Feature | |
| Faith | 2020 | Valentina Pedicini | 2019 | 93 min | Feature | |
| Feels Good Man | 2020 | Arthur Jones | 2020 | 95 min | Feature | |
| Good Ended Happily | 2020 | Basir Mahmood | 2019 | 13 min | Short | |
| Hampton | 2020 | Kevin Jerome Everson & Claudrena Harold | 2019 | 8 min | Short | |
| How to Disappear | 2020 | Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf | 2020 | 21 min | Short | |
| IWOW I Walk on Water | 2020 | Khalik Allah | 2020 | 197 min | Feature | |
| JESA | 2020 | Kyungwon Song | 2019 | 6 min | Short | |
| Lost Three Make One Found | 2020 | Atsushi Kuwayama | 2019 | 27 min | Short | |
| Love It/Leave It | 2020 | Tom Palazzolo | 1973 | 15 min | Short | |
| Lovemobil | 2020 | Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss | 2019 | 106 min | Feature | |
| małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore | 2020 | Sky Hopinka | 2020 | 81 min | Feature | |
| Mayor | 2020 | David Osit | 2020 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Mucho Mucho Amor | 2020 | Cristina Constantini & Kareem Tabsch | 2020 | 96 min | Feature | |
| Nofinofy | 2020 | Michaël Andrianaly | 2020 | 73 min | Feature | |
| Partial Differential Equation | 2020 | Kevin Jerome Everson | 2020 | 8 min | Short | |
| Pier Kids | 2020 | Elegance Bratton | 2019 | 84 min | Feature | |
| Recklessly Eyeballing | 2020 | Christopher Harris | 2004 | 14 min | Short | |
| Ridge | 2020 | John Skoog | 2019 | 70 min | Feature | |
| San Vittore | 2020 | Yuri Ancarani | 2019 | 12 min | Short | |
| Secret Screening Short | 2020 | 2019 | 24 min | Short | ||
| See You Next Time | 2020 | Crystal Kayiza | 2020 | 6 min | Short | |
| Seven Years in May | 2020 | Affonso Uchoa | 2019 | 42 min | Feature | |
| Shortcuts | 2020 | Daniela Delgado Viteri | 2019 | 18 min | Short | |
| Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | 2020 | Riccardo Giacconi, Paolo Pennuti, Mirko Fabbri | 2019 | 12 min | Short | |
| So Late So Soon | 2020 | Daniel Hymanson | 2020 | 70 min | Feature | |
| Some Kind of Heaven | 2020 | Lance Oppenheim | 2020 | 81 min | Feature | |
| Specialised Technique | 2020 | Onyeka Igwe | 2019 | 7 min | Short | |
| Spit on the Broom | 2020 | Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | 2019 | 11 min | Short | |
| Sunless Shadows | 2020 | Mehrdad Oskouei | 2019 | 74 min | Feature | |
| Talking About Trees | 2020 | Suhaib Gasmelbari | 2019 | 93 min | Feature | |
| Tchoupitoulas | 2020 | Bill & Turner Ross | 2012 | 82 min | Feature | |
| That Cloud Never Left | 2020 | Yashaswini Raghunandan | 2019 | 66 min | Feature | |
| The Faculties | 2020 | Eloísa Solaas | 2019 | 77 min | Feature | |
| The Giverny Document | 2020 | Ja'Tovia Gary | 2019 | 42 min | Feature | |
| The Metamorphosis of Birds | 2020 | Catarina Vasconcelos | 2020 | 101 min | Feature | |
| The Mole Agent | 2020 | Maite Alberdi | 2020 | 90 min | Feature | |
| The Sea, The Stars, A Landscape | 2020 | Alison O'Daniel | 2019 | 18 min | Short | |
| The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay | 2020 | Yen-Chao Lin | 2019 | 11 min | Short | |
| The Viewing Booth | 2020 | Ra’anan Alexandrowicz | 2019 | 70 min | Feature | |
| This is an Address | 2020 | Sasha Wortzel | 2019 | 17 min | Short | |
| Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another | 2020 | Jessica Sarah Rinland | 2019 | 65 min | Feature | |
| Time | 2020 | Garrett Bradley | 2020 | 85 min | Feature | |
| To the North (Part 2) | 2020 | Kelman Duran | 2016 | 23 min | Short | |
| Unskinned | 2020 | Inês Gil | 2019 | 76 min | Feature | |
| Up at Night | 2020 | Nelson Makengo | 2019 | 21 min | Short | |
| Welcome to Chechnya | 2020 | David France | 2020 | 107 min | Feature | |
| what remains/geriye kalanlar | 2020 | belit sağ | 2019 | 7 min | Short | |
| When two or three | 2020 | Carmine Grimaldi | 2019 | 20 min | Short |
2021[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .srt | 2021 | Africanus Okokon | 2020 | 9 min | Short | |
| All Light, Everywhere | 2021 | Theo Anthony | 2021 | 106 min | Feature | |
| Brontosaurus | 2021 | Jack Dunphy | 2020 | 8 min | Short | |
| Club Quarantine | 2021 | Aurora Brachman | 2020 | 7 min | Short | |
| Das Spiel | 2021 | Roman Hodel | 2020 | 17 min | Short | |
| Delphine's Prayers | 2021 | Rosine Mbakam | 2020 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Department of Injustice | 2021 | Travis Wood & Chloe Gbai | 2020 | 6 min | Short | |
| Dirty Feathers | 2021 | Carlos Alfonso Corral | 2021 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Faya Dayi | 2021 | Jessica Beshir | 2021 | 120 min | Feature | |
| Fire Season | 2021 | Quinn Else | 2020 | 7 min | Short | |
| From the Wild Sea | 2021 | Robin Petré | 2021 | 78 min | Feature | |
| Halpate | 2021 | Adam Piron & Adam Khalil | 2020 | 14 min | Short | |
| Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse | 2021 | Pablo Weber | 2020 | 22 min | Short | |
| Homeroom | 2021 | Peter Nicks | 2021 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Inside The Red Brick Wall | 2021 | HK Documentary Filmmakers | 2021 | 88 min | Feature | |
| Lemongrass Girl | 2021 | Pom Bunsermvicha | 2021 | 17 min | Short | |
| Maat Means Land | 2021 | Fox Maxy | 2020 | 30 min | Short | |
| My Own Landscape | 2021 | Antoine Chapon | 2020 | 18 min | Short | |
| No Kings | 2021 | Emilia Mello | 2020 | 85 min | Feature | |
| O arrais do mar | 2021 | Elisa Celda | 2020 | 18 min | Short | |
| Petit Samedi | 2021 | Paloma Sermon-Dai | 2020 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Red Taxi | 2021 | Anonymous | 2020 | 14 min | Short | |
| Rock Bottom Riser | 2021 | Fern Silva | 2021 | 70 min | Feature | |
| Sabaya | 2021 | Hogir Hirori | 2021 | 93 min | Feature | |
| Songs That Flood the River | 2021 | German Adolfo Arango | 2021 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth | 2021 | Aylin Gökmen | 2020 | 14 min | Short | |
| Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revoluation Could Not be Televised) | 2021 | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson | 2021 | 117 min | Feature | |
| The Bodies | 2021 | Eloy Domínguez Serén | 2020 | 11 min | Short | |
| The Cut | 2021 | Zac Manuel | 2020 | 7 min | Short | |
| The Flooded House | 2021 | Lucía Malandro & Daniel D. Saucedo | 2020 | 14 min | Short | |
| The Golden Buttons | 2021 | Alex Evstigneev | 2020 | 20 min | Short | |
| The Grocer's Son, the Mayor, the Village and the World | 2021 | Claire Simon | 2020 | 110 min | Feature | |
| The I and S of Lives | 2021 | Kevin Jerome Everson | 2021 | 7 min | Short | |
| The Rain Will Never Stop | 2021 | Alina Gorlova | 2020 | 103 min | Feature | |
| The Rifleman | 2021 | Sierra Pettengill | 2020 | 18 min | Short | |
| The Truth About Hastings | 2021 | Dan Schneidkraut | 2021 | 10 min | Short | |
| The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman | 2021 | Rosine Mbakam | 2018 | 76 min | Feature | |
| Users | 2021 | Natalia Almada | 2021 | 81 min | Feature | |
| VO | 2021 | Nicolas Gourault | 2020 | 17 min | Short | |
| Why Don't You Eat More? | 2021 | George Du; Sinclair Neff | 2020 | 4 min | Short |
2022[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Chance | 2022 | Ramin Bahrani | 2022 | 89 min | Feature | |
| Abisal | 2022 | Alejandro Alonso | 2021 | 30 min | Short | |
| Açucena | 2022 | Isaac Donato | 2021 | 71 min | Feature | |
| After Sherman | 2022 | Jon-Sesrie Goff | 2021 | 88 min | Feature | |
| Brotherhood | 2022 | Francesco Montagner | 2021 | 97 min | Feature | |
| Caballerango | 2022 | Juan Pablo González | 2018 | 60 min | Feature | |
| Canoa: A Shameful Memory | 2022 | Felipe Cazals | 1976 | 115 min | Feature | |
| Children of the Mist | 2022 | HÀ Lệ Diễm | 2021 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Days and Nights of Demetra K | 2022 | Eva Stefani | 2021 | 72 min | Feature | |
| Death | 2022 | Nadia Hallgren | 2021 | 9 min | Short | |
| Dos Estaciones | 2022 | Juan Pablo González | 2022 | 99 min | Feature | |
| Eventually | 2022 | Rikke Nørgaard | 2021 | 56 min | Feature | |
| Expo Film (this film is my memory) | 2022 | Penny McCann | 2020 | 9 min | Short | |
| Factory to the Workers | 2022 | Srđan Kovačević | 2021 | 106 min | Feature | |
| Fire of Love | 2022 | Sara Dosa | 2021 | 93 min | Feature | |
| GES-2 | 2022 | Nastia Korkia | 2021 | 77 min | Feature | |
| Gods of Mexico | 2022 | Helmut Dosantos | 2022 | 97 min | Feature | |
| Golden Jubilee | 2022 | Suneil Sanzgiri | 2021 | 19 min | Short | |
| Greetings from Myanmar | 2022 | Sunniva Sundby & Andreas J. Riiser | 2020 | 6 min | Short | |
| H6 | 2022 | Yé Yé | 2021 | 113 min | Feature | |
| I Didn’t See You There | 2022 | Reid Davenport | 2022 | 77 min | Feature | |
| Ikebana | 2022 | Rita Ferrando | 2021 | 13 min | Short | |
| In Flow of Words | 2022 | Eliane Esther Bots | 2021 | 22 min | Short | |
| It Runs in the Family | 2022 | Victoria Linares Villegas | 2022 | 83 min | Feature | |
| Kalsubai | 2022 | Yudhajit Basu | 2021 | 20 min | Short | |
| Kicking the Clouds | 2022 | Sky Hopinka | 2021 | 16 min | Short | |
| Las Nubes | 2022 | Juan Pablo González | 2017 | 21 min | Short | |
| Last Days of August | 2022 | Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck & Robert Machoian | 2022 | 13 min | Short | |
| Let the Little Light Shine | 2022 | Kevin Shaw | 2022 | 86 min | Feature | |
| Liberation Radio | 2022 | Esther Johnson | 2021 | 14 min | Short | |
| Miguel's War | 2022 | Eliane Raheb | 2021 | 128 min | Feature | |
| Mija | 2022 | Isabel Castro | 2022 | 88 min | Feature | |
| Mr Landsbergis | 2022 | Sergei Loznitsa | 2021 | 146 min | Feature | |
| Nazarbazi | 2022 | Maryam Tafakory | 2022 | 19 min | Short | |
| No U-Turn | 2022 | Ike Nnaebue | 2022 | 92 min | Feature | |
| Nuisance Bear | 2022 | Jack Weisman & Gabriela Osio Vanden | 2021 | 14 min | Short | |
| Octopus | 2022 | Karim Kassem | 2020 | 64 min | Feature | |
| Our Ark | 2022 | Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton | 2021 | 12 min | Short | |
| Quitting Time | 2022 | Cameron Yates | 2022 | 8 min | Short | |
| Riotsville, U.S.A. | 2022 | Sierra Pettengill | 2022 | 91 min | Feature | |
| Sirens | 2022 | Rita Baghdadi | 2022 | 78 min | Feature | |
| The Balcony Movie | 2022 | Paweł Łoziński | 2021 | 100 min | Feature | |
| The Delights | 2022 | Eduardo Crespo | 2021 | 65 min | Feature | |
| The Rightful | 2022 | Ana Galizia | 2022 | 21 min | Short | |
| The Still Side | 2022 | Miko Revereza & Carolina Fusilier | 2021 | 70 min | Feature | |
| The Territory | 2022 | Alex Pritz | 2022 | 85 min | Feature | |
| Turn Your Body to the Sun | 2022 | Aliona Van der Horst | 2021 | 93 min | Feature | |
| Vedette | 2022 | Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard | 2021 | 99 min | Feature | |
| We Met in Virtual Reality | 2022 | Joe Hunting | 2021 | 91 min | Feature | |
| Where are we Headed | 2022 | Ruslan Fedotow | 2021 | 63 min | Feature | |
| You Can't Stop Spirit | 2022 | Vashni Korin | 2021 | 16 min | Short | |
| You've Never Been Completely Honest | 2022 | Joey Izzo | 2021 | 11 min | Short | |
| Zigipouse | 2022 | Alan Sahin | 2021 | 10 min | Short |
2023[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Kings | 2023 | Enrique Pedraza Botero & Faye Tsakas | 2022 | 14 min | Short | |
| Anhell69 | 2023 | Theo Montoya | 2022 | 72 min | Feature | |
| Anima | 2023 | Manuel Mateo Gomez | 2022 | 19 min | Short | |
| Aqueronte | 2023 | Manuel Muñoz Rivas | 2023 | 26 min | Short | |
| Aralkum | 2023 | Mila Zhluktenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi | 2022 | 14 min | Short | |
| Art Talent Show | 2023 | Adéla Komrzý & Tomáš Bojar | 2022 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Away | 2023 | Ruslan Fedotow | 2022 | 28 min | Short | |
| Bad Press | 2023 | Rebecca Landsberry-Baker & Joe Peeler | 2022 | 98 min | Feature | True Life Fund |
| Before It Breaks | 2023 | Swetha Regunathan | 2022 | 7 min | Short | |
| Bobi Wine: The People's President | 2023 | Christopher Sharp & Moses Bwayo | 2022 | 114 min | Feature | |
| Broca's Aphasia | 2023 | SU Ming-Yen | 2022 | 85 min | Feature | |
| Caballo De Espuma | 2023 | Juanjo Rueda | 2022 | 20 min | Short | |
| Dogwatch | 2023 | Gregoris Rentis | 2022 | 78 min | Feature | |
| Echo | 2023 | Ross McClean | 2023 | 13 min | Short | |
| The Empty Sphere | 2023 | Stephanie Roland | 2022 | 19 min | Short | |
| Example #35 | 2023 | Lucía Malandro | 2022 | 6 min | Short | |
| The Feeling of Being Close To You | 2023 | Ash Goh Hua | 2022 | 12 min | Short | |
| Feet in Water, Head on Fire | 2023 | Terra Long | 2023 | 90 min | Feature | |
| Forms of Forgetting | 2023 | Burak Çevik | 2023 | 70 min | Feature | |
| Gigi La Legge | 2023 | Alessandro Comodin | 2022 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project | 2023 | Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster | 2022 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Going Varsity in Mariachi | 2023 | Alejandra Vasquez & Sam Osborn | 2022 | 104 min | Feature | |
| Guapo'y | 2023 | Sofia Paoli Thorne | 2022 | 72 min | Feature | |
| How to Have an American Baby | 2023 | Leslie Tai | 2023 | 117 min | Feature | |
| Hummingbirds | 2023 | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños & Estefanía “Beba” Contreras | 2023 | 78 min | Feature | |
| I Was Born In 1988 | 2023 | Yasaman Baghban | 2022 | 9 min | Short | |
| It Runs in the Family | 2023 | Victoria Linares Villegas | 2022 | 84 min | Feature | True Vision Award |
| Jill, Uncredited | 2023 | Anthony Ing | 2022 | 18 min | Short | |
| Joonam | 2023 | Sierra Urich | 2022 | 103 min | Feature | |
| Language Unknown | 2022 | Janelle VanderKelen | 2022 | 6 min | Short | |
| La Bonga | 2023 | Sebastián Pinzón Silva & Canela Reyes | 2022 | 77 min | Feature | |
| Last Things | 2023 | Deborah Stratman | 2023 | 50 min | Feature | |
| Love At First Byte | 2023 | Felizitas & Theresa Hoffmann | 2022 | 6 min | Short | |
| Mafifa | 2023 | Daniela Muñoz Barroso | 2021 | 77 min | Feature | |
| Man on Earth | 2023 | Amiel Courtin-Wilson | 2022 | 97 min | Feature | |
| Margie Soudek's Salt and Pepper Shakers | 2023 | Meredith Moore | 2022 | 12 min | Short | |
| Milisuthando | 2023 | Milisuthando Bongela | 2023 | 128 min | Feature | |
| A Moment of Innocence | 2023 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | 1996 | 78 min | Feature | |
| Moomin | 2023 | Zach Dorn | 2022 | 5 min | Short | |
| Moosa Lane | 2023 | Anita Mathal Hopland | 2022 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Moune Ô | 2023 | Maxime Jean-Baptiste | 2022 | 17 min | Short | |
| Natalia | 2023 | Elizabeth Mirzaei | 2022 | 76 min | Feature | |
| No Elements | 2023 | Barbara Vojtašáková | 2022 | 25 min | Short | |
| Our Body | 2023 | Claire Simon | 2022 | 168 min | Feature | |
| Paradise | 2023 | Alexander Abaturov | 2022 | 89 min | Feature | |
| R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity | 2023 | Mohanad Yaqubi | 2022 | 71 min | Feature | |
| Ramona | 2023 | Victoria Linares Villegas | 2023 | 83 min | Feature | |
| Red Herring | 2023 | Kit Vincent | 2023 | 94 min | Feature | |
| The Stroll | 2023 | Kristen Lovell & Zackary Drucker | 2023 | 85 min | Feature | |
| The Taste of Mango | 2023 | Chloe Abrahams | 2023 | 75 min | Feature | |
| Tavuri | 2023 | Dervis Zaim | 2022 | 93 min | Feature | |
| Tension Envelopes | 2023 | Robert Greene | 2023 | 9 min | Short | |
| That Day on the River | 2023 | Lei Lei | 2023 | 39 min | Short | |
| Three Women | 2023 | Maksym Melnyk | 2022 | 85 min | Feature | |
| Tierra de Leche | 2023 | Milton Guillén & Fiona Hall | 2022 | 12 min | Short | |
| Time Bomb Y2K | 2023 | Brian Becker & Marley McDonald | 2023 | 80 min | Feature | |
| Visão do Paraíso (Vision of Paradise) | 2023 | Leonardo Pirondi | 2022 | 16 min | Short | |
| While the Night Falls | 2023 | Amir Aether Valen | 2023 | 18 min | Short | |
| Xarassi Xanne (Crossing Voices) | 2023 | Raphaël Grisey & Bouba Touré | 2022 | 122 min | Feature | |
| You Are Not Here | 2023 | Nastia Korkia | 2022 | 16 min | Short |
2024[edit]
| Title | Fest Year | Director (s) | Year | Runtime | Type | Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1489 | 2024 | Shoghakat Vardanyan | 2023 | 76 min | Feature | |
| 23 Mile | 2024 | Mitch McCabe | 2024 | 78 min | Feature | |
| A Band of Dreamers and a Judge | 2024 | Hesam Eslami | 2023 | 80 min | Feature | |
| A Photographic Memory | 2024 | Rachel Elizabeth Seed | 2024 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Agent of Happiness | 2024 | Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó | 2024 | 94 min | Feature | |
| Alien Island | 2024 | Cristóbal Valenzuela Berrios | 2023 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Allo la France | 2024 | Floriane Devigne | 2023 | 78 min | Feature | |
| Amma ki Katha | 2024 | Nehal Vyas | 2023 | 21 min | Short | |
| Ardent Other | 2024 | Alice Brygo | 2022 | 16 min | Short | |
| As the Tide Comes In | 2024 | Juan Palacios & Sofie Husum Johannesen | 2023 | 89 min | Feature | |
| Background | 2024 | Khaled Abdulwahed | 2023 | 64 min | Feature | |
| Behind Closed Doors | 2024 | João Pedro Bim | 2023 | 66 min | Feature | |
| Boyz | 2024 | Sylvain Cruiziat | 2023 | 73 min | Feature | |
| Contractions | 2024 | Lynne Sachs | 2024 | 12 min | Short | |
| Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano | 2024 | Cyril Aris | 2023 | 87 min | Feature | |
| Daughters | 2024 | Angela Patton & Natalie Rae | 2023 | 111 min | Feature | |
| Dreams about Putin | 2024 | Nastia Korkia | 2023 | 30 min | Short | |
| Empty Rooms | 2024 | Zhenia Kazankina | 2023 | 6 min | Short | |
| Familia 💖💎 | 2024 | Picho García & Gabriela Pena | 2024 | 19 min | Short | |
| Flying Lessons | 2024 | Elizabeth Nichols | 2024 | 84 min | Feature | |
| Four Holes | 2024 | Daniela Muñoz Barroso | 2023 | 20 min | Short | |
| Friends on the Outside | 2024 | Annabel Moodie | 2023 | 10 min | Short | |
| Girls State | 2024 | Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss | 2023 | 96 min | Feature | |
| Gwetto | 2024 | Michaël Andrianaly | 2023 | 52 min | Feature | True Vision Award |
| Headshot | 2024 | Dominic Yarabe | 2023 | 8 min | Short | |
| I Am The Immaculate Conception | 2024 | Frank Eli Martin | 2023 | 17 min | Short | |
| I Like It Here | 2024 | Ralph Arlyck | 2022 | 88 min | Feature | |
| I Would've Been Happy | 2024 | Jordan Wong | 2023 | 9 min | Short | |
| Ibelin | 2024 | Benjamin Ree | 2024 | 104 min | Feature | |
| Junior Tu Papá | 2024 | Daniel Díaz | 2024 | 16 min | Short | |
| K-Family Affairs | 2024 | Arum Nam | 2023 | 86 min | Feature | |
| L'Esquisse | 2024 | Tomas Cali | 2023 | 9 min | Short | |
| Look Into My Eyes | 2024 | Lana Wilson | 2023 | 107 min | Feature | |
| Magic Mountain | 2024 | Mariam Chachia & Nik Voigt | 2023 | 74 min | Feature | |
| Night Audit | 2024 | Ryan Ross | 2023 | 15 min | Short | |
| Nofinofy | 2024 | Michaël Andrianaly | 2019 | 73 min | Feature | |
| Nortel | 2024 | Evan Gareth Hoffman | 2023 | 15 min | Short | |
| Obsolete | 2024 | Sumira Roy | 2023 | 64 min | Feature | |
| On The Battlefield | 2024 | Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki, Ray Whitaker | 2024 | 13 min | Short | |
| Personal Mythologies | 2024 | Susan O'Brien | 2024 | 5 min | Short | |
| POV Memory | 2024 | Igor Smola | 2023 | 13 min | Short | |
| Queen's Crochet | 2024 | Hanna Cho | 2023 | 36 min | Short | |
| Roberto Baggio | 2024 | Henrique Cartaxo | 2023 | 7 min | Short | |
| Seeking Mavis Beacon | 2024 | Jazmin Jones | 2024 | 102 min | Feature | |
| Spermworld | 2024 | Lance Oppenheim | 2024 | 84 min | Feature | |
| sr | 2024 | Lea Hartlaub | 2024 | 103 min | Feature | |
| Strong Grandma | 2024 | Cecilia Brown & Winslow Crane-Murdoch | 2023 | 15 min | Short | |
| The Lady with Lipstick | 2024 | Francesca Coppola | 2023 | 9 min | Short | |
| The Medallion | 2024 | Ruth Hunduma | 2023 | 19 min | Short | |
| The Other Profile | 2024 | Armel Hostiou | 2023 | 82 min | Feature | |
| There Was, There Was Not | 2024 | Emily Mkrtichian | 2024 | 90 min | Feature | |
| This is Going to Be Big | 2024 | Thomas Charles Hyland | 2023 | 100 min | Feature | |
| Three Promises | 2024 | Yousef Srouji | 2023 | 61 min | Feature | True Life Fund |
| Tilted Arc | 2024 | Baxter Stein | 2023 | 14 min | Short | |
| Todisoa and the Black Stones | 2024 | Ruth Hunduma | 2013 | 26 min | Short | |
| Tokyo Story | 2024 | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 | 136 min | Feature | |
| Two Sun | 2024 | Blair Barnes | 2023 | 5 min | Short | |
| Union | 2024 | Stephen Maing & Brett Story | 2024 | 104 min | Feature | |
| Yintah | 2024 | Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell & Michael Toledano | 2024 | 125 min | Feature |
True/False includes films by local and international filmmakers, with thousands of films being sent in each year for consideration.
True Vision Award[edit]
The True/False Film Fest offers a single award. The True Vision Award is given annually to the filmmaker, or filmmakers, whose work shows a dedication to the creative advancement of the art of nonfiction filmmaking. Each winner is presented with an original bronze sculpture, created by nationally known Columbia artist Larry Young.
| Year | Recipient(s) | Film* |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster |
| 2005 | Stephen Marshall | This Revolution |
| 2006 | Kirby Dick | Chain Camera |
| 2007 | Brett Morgen | Nimrod Nation |
| 2008 | Alex Gibney | Gonzo and Taxi to the Dark Side |
| 2009 | Kim Longinotto | Rough Aunties |
| 2010 | Laura Poitras | The Oath |
| 2011 | James Marsh | Project Nim |
| 2012 | Victor Kossakovsky | ¡Vivan las Antipodas! |
| 2013 | Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel | Leviathan |
| 2014 | Amir Bar-Lev | Happy Valley |
| 2015 | Adam Curtis | Bitter Lake |
| 2016 | Mehrdad Oskouei | Starless Dreams |
| 2017 | Claire Simon | The Graduation |
| 2018 | Dieudo Hamadi | Kinshasa Makambo |
| 2019 | Nuria Ibáñez Castañeda | A Wild Stream |
| 2020 | Bill & Turner Ross | Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets |
| 2021 | Rosine Mbakam | Chez Jolie Coiffure |
| 2022 | Juan Pablo González | Dos Estaciones |
| 2023 | Victoria Linares Villegas | It Runs in the Family |
*The newest film presented by the chosen winner in each year's festival.
True Life Fund[edit]
Since 2007, the True/False Film Fest has also featured the True Life Fund, a fundraising program which goes to demonstrate that documentaries can create change by offering tangible assistance to the real-life subjects of a new non-fiction film each year. The fund further acknowledges that documentary filmmakers and festivals thrive because of the stories provided by people of often limited means. The True Life Fund is presented by the Crossing (a Missouri church group) and is supported by the Bertha Foundation.
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| Year | Film | Director(s) | Funds Raised | Supported Cause |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | We Are Together | Paul Taylor | $8,500 | Purchase school supplies for the Children of Agape singing choir of South Africa.[17] |
| 2008 | Very Young Girls | David Schisgall | $9,000 | Provide services to girls recovering from the trauma of sexual exploitation, through GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Service). |
| 2009 | Burma VJ | Anders Østergaard | $9,000 | Purchase equipment for underground journalists in Burma. |
| 2010 | Enemies of the People | Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin | $10,000 | Help efforts to interview former members of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.[18] |
| 2011 | The Interrupters | Steve James | $15,000 | Help Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams and Eddie Bocanegra of the anti-violence group CeaseFire. |
| 2012 | Bully | Lee Hirsch | $30,000 | Help the five families featured in the film, which were victimized by bullying.[18] |
| 2013 | Restrepo | Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington | $36,760 | Support RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues) and The Milton Margai School for the Blind.[18] |
| 2014 | Private Violence | Cynthia Hill | $23,000 | Support the work of Deanna Walters, Kit Gruelle, Stacy Cox and Naomi Jean Kilpatrick. |
| 2015 | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | $35,000 | Support Adi Rukun's efforts to open an optometry shop in Indonesia. |
| 2016 | Sonita | Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | $43,000 | Provide assistance for Sonita, an Afghani musician and undocumented Iranian immigrant. |
| 2017 | Quest | Jonathan Olshefski | $34,750 | Support Christopher and Christine'a Rainey's in-home studio for North Philadelphia neighborhood recording artists. |
| 2018 | Primas | Laura Bari | $25,000 | Support Rocío and Aldana's future artistic and collegiate endeavors.[19] |
| 2019 | Midnight Traveler | Hassan Fazili | [To Be Announced] | Help alleviate legal expenses, and support them in setting up their new home |
| 2020 | Welcome to Chechnya | David France | [To Be Announced] | |
| 2021 | Sabaya | Hogir Hirori | [To Be Announced] | |
| 2022 | The Territory | Alex Pritz | [To Be Announced] | |
| 2023 | Bad Press | Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler | [To Be Announced] | |
| 2024 | Three Promises | Yousef Srouji | [To Be Announced] |
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