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TRUE/FALSE Film Fest Wrap – Diane Carson reports

March 6, 2024March 7, 2024 Diane Carson Agent of Happiness, Daughters, documentaries, Ibelin, TRU/FALSE, true/false film festival, union, Yintah

The annual True/False Film Festival, always the first weekend in March, in Columbia, Missouri, offered its always impressive, international documentaries championing (per the T/F mission) “the challenge of interpreting reality on screen with playfulness, sensitivity, discipline, and daring imagination.” This year’s thirty-three feature and twenty-six short films, a global treasure trove, address important issues in analytical, accessible, and engaging ways.

Reviews

THE BALCONY MOVIE – Review by Diane Carson

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Diane Carson documentary, mubi, Paweł Łoziński, polish films, The Balcony Movie, true/false film festival

One clever documentarian, Polish director Paweł Łoziński, turned his pandemic isolation into a fascinating, revealing interaction with neighbors in The Balcony Movie. Shooting entirely from his second floor balcony in Warsaw, over two-and-half years, Łoziński asks questions and listens to random passers-by who agree to talk with him, and some don’t but are still included.

Festivals

It’s A Wrap: TRUE/FALSE Film Festival 2022 – Diane Carson reports

March 9, 2022March 11, 2022 Diane Carson documentaries, documentary film festivals, true/false 2022, true/false film festival

This year’s cavalcade of films, some evoking sober realization of somber events, others amusing, all of them enlightening, is a credit to the True/False programmers. Expansive in topics, their selections hail from Bosnia to Brazil, Poland to Vietnam, Chicago to Croatia, Lebanon to Mexico. Exceptional and memorable, they encourage a profound and critical awareness that we do inhabit one world in all its glorious beauty and with its challenging problems that only we all can solve when we work together for a better, more just acceptance of all the cultures and people.

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BOYS STATE – Review by Diane Carson

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Diane Carson 0 Comments amanda mcbaine, apple, boys state, documentaries, jesse moss, Texas Boys State, true/false film festival

Directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss capture today’s politics in a microcosm through their documentary Boys State, a spirited, unpredictable look at the 2018 Texas Boys State experience. a week-long event where eleven hundred 17-year-olds, arbitrarily assigned to the fictional Federalists or Nationalists group, square off in representative elections, the most consequential for Boys State Governor.

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THE HOTTEST AUGUST – Review by Diane Carson

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Diane Carson 0 Comments Brett story, documentaries, new york, the hottest august, true/false film festival

Director Brett Story realizes that ordinary individuals regularly offer revealing, poignant comments about today’s issues, including politics and climate change. And so, in 2017, for a month, during what was billed as the hottest New York City August on record, she asked an eclectic assortment of men and women one question, “What are your hopes for the future?”