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The annual documentary film festival True/False kicks off its 23nd edition on March 5, showcasing 62 works of nonfiction cinema from around the world to Columbia, Missouri through March 8. We have rounded up the 12 science and technology-themed films to look out for below, with descriptions excerpted from the festival’s programmers.
Highlights include TIME AND WATER, the latest from FIRE OF LOVE director Sara Dosa. The film is narrated by Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason, whose 2019 book On Time and Water inspired the film. Festivalgoers can also look forward to experimental filmmaker and visual artist Josef Gatti’s visually arresting PHENOMENA, which will have its world premiere at the festival. The feature film marks not only marking Gatti’s feature documentary debut, but the latest iteration of PHENOMENA, a project which initially garnered attention as a short-form YouTube series in 2021.
FEATURE FILMS:
AMERICAN DOCTOR. Dir. Poh Si Teng. “Poh Si Teng’s vérité feature follows three physician friends—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—from a besieged Gaza hospital to the halls of Congress, fighting to save lives.”
NUISANCE BEAR. Dirs. Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman. “In Manitoba, we see the world through the perspective of a polar bear and question who deserves to be in the icy port town—the bears or the tourists?”
Still from NUISANCE BEAR. Courtesy of True/False.
PHENOMENA. Dir. Josef Gatti. World Premiere. “Partnering with his physics teacher father, the filmmaker embarks on a fantastical journey where the universe opens up in all its glory and magic.”
TIME AND WATER. Dir. Sara Dosa. “Illuminating a family’s shared memories with Iceland’s first melted glacier caused by climate change, Time and Water portrays a writer trying to preserve his connection to the natural world.”
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Still from TIME AND WATER. Courtesy of True/False.
TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN. Dirs. Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić.“In Montenegro’s remote highlands, shepherd Gara and her daughter Nada defend their ancestral mountain from a NATO training ground, driven by love for their land and way of life.”
SHORT FILMS:
BORN SECRET. Dir. Riley Fitchpatrick. “Having grown up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a filmmaker digs into the legacy of a town founded on the prospect of nuclear war.”
THE BOYS AND THE BEES. Dir. Arielle Knight. “A farm in Georgia paints a picture of pastoral idyll as little boys learn lessons in life and love from their beekeeping parents.”
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Still from THE BOYS AND THE BEES. Courtesy of True/False.
BUCKSKIN. Dir. Mars Verrone. World Premiere. “A filmmaker looks to their grandfather, a forester inside academia and the U.S. Forest Service, asking how one life resists, survives, and protects community within institutions that reject you.”
GATORVILLE. Dir. Freddie Gluck. “As young siblings grow older, they contemplate a future that lies beyond the limits of their home—a tilapia farm turned into an alligator sanctuary.”
L’MINA. Dir. Randa Maroufi. “In Jerada, Morocco, retired miners pose for a portrait, then reenact the dangerous underground work that still continues—clandestinely—because no other livelihood exists.”
LAND OF COLD. Dir. Hervé Demers. World Premiere. “Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.”
NO MEAN CITY. Dir. Ross McClean. U.S. Premiere. “The switch from sodium-vapor street lights to LED street lights reveals an Irish community holding onto tradition while technology changes daily life.”
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