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TRUE/FALSE ПРЕЗЕНТУЄ TRUE/FALSE PRESENTS
Pamela Cohn,
programmer of True/False Film Fest
At True/False, we’ve always believed that
there is something way more complex
going on between a documentary filmmaker
and his or her subjects than might appear
at first. We celebrate films that go beyond
the illusion that what is represented is
the unvarnished truth of what might have
occurred in front of a camera lens. It’s always
a bit more complicated than that. We love
directors who display a mastery in creating
profound cinematic portraits of what it
feels like to live a certain experience, in the
process making transcendent pieces that tap
into our common human experience. In the
process, we as an audience can be lifted to
new heights of understanding, not only about
other people’s lives, but of our own as well.
Last month in Columbia, Missouri in the US,
for our 2016 edition – our 13th – the chosen
theme was entitled Off the Trail. We decided
to take our audiences (and ourselves) away
from the comfort of the well-trod path and
head toward destinations unknown. We
surrounded ourselves with the inspiration
of secret missions, treasure maps, personal
geographies, and the virtue of being lost.
Through our films, music, conversations,
art, and design, we explored a variety of
special, hidden, or sacred places, both real
and constructed.
We’re so grateful to be able to share these
films with the Docudays UA audience.
Each of them in their own way showcases
deep and abiding collaborations between
makers and subjects, the malleable line
between fiction and nonfiction enhancing
the ultimate truths of existences crafted
specifically for our viewing pleasure.
These directors have created some of the
most riveting – and sometimes puzzling –
cinematic experiences that reveal the truth
about who and what we are and how we
navigate in this bewildering and untethered
time, when it feels like the biggest task in
front of us all is re-thinking who we are as
human beings.
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