True / False Film Festival 2025

It's that time of year again (last weekend in February/first weekend in March) where Columbia, Missouri hosts one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world. Sal and I have been going every year since 2010. It started as a sort of cheap Christmas present when we were dead broke and just turned into a tradition. (The festival remains impressively affordable) 

There's an atmosphere I appreciate at True/False. A sort of optimism that community isn't dead. Here we all are, in person, to watch documentaries. 

Many years there seems to be a soft theme. Films take time to make, so the headlines from 2-3 years ago usually have a few films coming out trying to make sense of everything. This year, the soft theme seemed to be protest. 

I saw seven films this year. In order of my least favorite (still great) to my favorite.