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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 1h

"as this film conveys, the best storytellers are the city streets....it’s natural that an impulse to collect images surges, as such times of war make archives most urgent and most vulnerable"

@reverseshot.bsky.social on LIMITATION, out now on True Story.

Limitation

Reviewing the 13th edition of First Look, Museum of the Moving Image's annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema.

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 1d

In the guise of avatars, a film crew enters an online video game. They come into contact with a community of players and meet their stories, fears, and aspirations.

KNIT'S ISLAND: www.truestory.film/knits-island

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 2d

"Death is shown as a place where ghosts float amongst us, party with us, fall in love with us....Death is not feared but taken as a relief from the violence of living" @opencitydocs.bsky.social on ANHELL69, watch on True Story.

Rage against the Living of the Light: Agency and mortality in Theo Montoya’s 'Anhell69' - Open City Documentary Festival

Siavash Minoukadeh on Theo Montoya’s Anhell69 In the early 1990s, with his health steadily declining, Derek Jarman set to work on the garden of his Dungeness cottage. Of the cottage, he said:…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 2d

"this rigorous yet witty documentary brings to mind the observational, accumulative style of Frederick Wiseman" - Guardian

ART TALENT SHOW: www.truestory.film/art-talent-s...

TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 2d

"a fascinating, original and disconcerting portrait of its inhabitants” #BusinessDocEurope on KNIT'S ISLAND, out now on True Story.

Visions du Réel Burning Lights review: Knit’s Island - Business Doc Europe

On our physical planet, very few places and communities remain uncharted. But the world wide web is a largely unexplored and ever-growing universe.

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 3d

""My country doesn't see me as one of its citizens.”....the black and white picture underscoring his existence in the shadows, accompanied by the ever-present, intimate but never invasive camera, giving substance to his ambiguous existence" #VisionsduReel

DREAMERS: www.truestory.film/dreamers

TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 3d

Filmmaker Caroline Rumley embarks on a quest to discover more about her family’s past and its connection to the tainted history of the American South.

"evoking a family past that is tightly bound up with the tainted history of America’s southern states" #IDFA

DIXIE: www.truestory.film/dixie

Dixie - True Story

Filmmaker Caroline Rumley embarks on a quest to discover more about her family’s past and its connection to the tainted history of the American South. It begins with an encounter with a Black…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 3d

"plunges us into a parallel universe which, despite being virtual, unbounded by geography and common law, addresses the violence of the present times. Where brutality, satirical humour and a sometimes tender sense of community commingle” #Visionsdu Reel, *Winner* Jury Prize

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 4d

"I made these two films so that those who defend the regime through violence would see them. I constantly imagined the torturers alone in front of a screen, watching these films"

Read an interview with WHERE GOD IS NOT director Mehran Tamadon on the blog: truestoryfilm.blog/2025/09/12/w...

Where God Is Not

Interview with Director Mehran Tamadon You made Where God Is Not at the same time as My Worst Enemy. The two films are different but at the same time there is a resonance between them. Did you have…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 5d

Who can see a war coming? It started with fireworks in Crimea, a strike on a civilian plane with 298 people on board over Donetsk, the onslaught on Kyiv by Russian soldiers. Millions of local residents are trying to flee from Ukraine, while thousands of foreign journalists are trying to get in.

Signs of War - True Story

Who can see a war coming? It started with fireworks in the Crimean sky, a strike on a civilian plane with 298 people on board over the fields of Donetsk, the onslaught on the city of Kyiv by Russian…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 5d

“The result is an immersive and existential deep dive into the world of gaming, accessible to all audiences, whether gamers or not.” @variety on KNIT'S ISLAND, out now on True Story*

*not USA, France, Beglium, Brazil

Square Eyes Boards Immersive Video Game Pic ‘Knit’s Island’ Competing at Swiss Doc Fest Visions du Reél (EXCLUSIVE)

It is entirely shot in the online post-apocalyptic world of DayZ, a multiplayer survival video game set in the fictional post-Soviet Republic of Chernarus, where a mysterious plague has turned most…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 6d

The film is made in black and white. “All these lives are in the shadow, people without a real life. They work, they pax taxes but they always have to hide in a way and to be very low key,” Peter explains why the filmmakers didn’t use colour.

The DREAMERS directors talking to #BusinessDocEurope

VdR Burning Lights Comp: Dreamers by Stéphanie Barbey & Luc Peter - Business Doc Europe

You’ve lived all your life in a country, paid taxes and maybe even bought a house and started a family. All the time, though, you know you can be deported.

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 7d

"A Black Jesus, a documentary produced by famed German filmmaker Wim Wenders, creates a compelling juxtaposition, putting together Christian faith (with its enduring message about acceptance and favouring those less blessed than ourselves) and xenophobia" #Cineuropa

A Black Jesus - True Story

For many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year-old Edward from Ghana, a resident of the refugee centre which is…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 7d

"For undocumented immigrants, life is a state of perpetual limbo; the present is fraught with unexpected dangers, while the future is as ephemeral as a mirage. Shot in lyrical black and white...conveys these feelings of anxiety and isolation" @theguardian.com on DREAMERS, out now on True Story

Dreamers review – powerful film about immigrant kids in the US, denied their chance of citizenship

Study of the fate of undocumented children brought to the US, now grown up and paying taxes, yet under constant threat of deportation and removal

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 8d

"an archival horror film, a riveting account of an authoritarian uprising as depicted by the official cameramen of both sides...Asatiani and Dumbadze allow the fateful concatenation of events to unspool one raw, precipitous episode at a time." #MovingImageNYC

Limitation - Trailer - Limitation - True Story

Russia has a long history of conducting hybrid warfare. Limitation uses exclusively Internet-sourced footage to examine Russia’s shady involvement in the 1992 coup against Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 8d

"often moving...it’s a classic David and Goliath story that pits its plucky Sami underdogs against a big, bad foe (in this case the Norwegian government); but it looks ravishing and is never less than completely engaging." - Guardian

Radji - True Story

In the northernmost part of Sweden and Norway, a conflict over land and borders seems to be eternally ongoing. Simon and Beatrice Marainen and their three kids are a part of an indigenous Sami…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 8d

At the age of 9, Carlos arrives from Mexico to Chicago with his three brothers and his parents. The day he turns 18, his future becomes uncertain. According to US law, Carlos is now considered as undocumented. The slightest mistake can lead him to deportation.

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*not USA

TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 9d

""The traumatic past hems these night folk in as impassably as the surrounding mountains; it’s striking how many talk, in the absence of a viable future, about simply existing in the present moment" @guardian on ANHELL69 by Theo Montoya.

Anhell69 - Trailer

A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre- production of his first film, a B-movie…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 10d

"the horror is palpable. The lo-fi aesthetics of Limitation bristle with radical agitation, dismantling ideals about the pure, objective image and stressing the idea that, regardless of visual quality, all recorded footage is infected with hidden agendas and motives" @theguardian.com on LIMITATION.

Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat comes alive from the archive

Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan views

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 10d

"The black and white camera work of Nikolaï von Graevenitz (German Camera Award 2022) was specifically chosen to highlight these contrasts, contradictions, and to emphasize what it means to live in the shadow of the US legal system."

Read an interview with the DREAMERS directors over on the blog.

Dreamers

Interview with Directors Stéphanie Barbey and Luc Peter Young undocumented people are about 2.5 million in the USA. Your choice of following one of them with a strong narrative approach is one of t…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 10d

More than 120 kids live together in Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. In that school, away from their families, they will experience the end of their childhood and the beginning of their youth.

THE DELIGHTS: www.truestory.film/delights

TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 11d

My father immortalised the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom.

A Life Like Any Other - True Story

My father immortalised the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 11d

"A lifetime prison hidden in the centre of the free world" @moderntimesreview.bsky.social on DREAMERS, out now on True Story.

A lifetime prison hidden in the center of the free world

HUMAN RIGHTS: The struggles of 2.5 million people growing up in a country that does not recognize them as its own.

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 11d

"a powerful portrait of the abuse of power....an unflinching account of being pushed to the extremes of one’s own humanity – what it means to be broken and to resist" @sheffdocfest.bsky.social

Watch WHERE GOD IS NOT: www.truestory.film/where-god-is...

Where God Is Not - True Story

Là où Dieu n'est pas (Where God Is Not) is a film based on the testimonials of those who have been brutally treated by the Iranian regime. It seeks to understand how the most repressive aspects of…

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TrueStory.film @truestory-film.bsky.social · 12d

Jessi, Naia and Shelby are just like any other girls. Or are they? Born in the heart of traditional Texas, heirs to a historically male-dominated pastoral culture, they are part of a new generation of women shaking up the male world of rodeo.

Watch RODEO GIRLS: www.truestory.film/rodeo-girls

Rodeo Girls - True Story

Jessi, Naia and Shelby are just like any other girls. Or are they? Born in the heart of traditional Texas, heirs to a historically male-dominated pastoral culture, they are part of a new generation…

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