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REVIEW: ‘Valentina and the MUOSters’ depicts an Italian family set against an American military installation

Ned Pickett • February 28, 2025

Director Francesca Scalisi’s documentary examines the nature of family life, with the backdrop of societal tension

Review: ‘Gimme Truth!’ features a humorous selection of local short films

Sterling Sewell • March 11, 2024

Raunchy and loud, the ‘Gimme Truth!’ documentary game show provided another year of laughs and lies

REVIEW: Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s ‘A Moment of Innocence’ showcases the director’s complex history

Ethan Davis • March 22, 2023

With the film’s adults portrayed as static and young actors used as symbols of change, Mohnsen Makmabalf’s “A Moment of Innocence” presents the director’s attempts to make amends with people from his past.

The ambiguity of Dervis Zaim’s ‘Tavuri’ challenges the relationship between crime and conviction

Amber Roldan • March 17, 2023

Dan Zaim’s film “Tavuri” questions the role of crime and conviction in infamous scammer Mustafa Serttas’ life.

Photo Story: True/False Fest takes over Columbia

The Maneater Photo Staff • March 14, 2023

Maneater Photo staff showcases a variety of events held over the True/False Fest weekend, March 2-5, 2023.

REVIEW: ‘Forms of Forgetting’ explores what our memories are really worth

Maya Anand • March 13, 2023

“Forms of Forgetting” by director Burak Çevik provides an artistic depiction of the bittersweetness of memory and forgetting.

REVIEW: ‘Anhell 69’ drives the audience through life, loving and death in Colombia’s queer community

Ben Miles • March 12, 2023

Shown at True/False Film Fest, Montoya’s immensely personal examines the prolonged death of his friend group. Content Warning: This review discusses the film’s coverage of suicide among...

REVIEW: Archival-footage documentary ‘Time Bomb Y2K’ takes audiences through the late 90s

Matthew Gerber • March 12, 2023

The film, directed by Brian Becker and Marley McDonald, tells the story of Y2K panic as it evolved into a telling portrait of the future of America.

REVIEW: ‘Mafifa’ lets audiences see Conga through the director’s eyes and ears

Kennedy Thomas • March 12, 2023

The film by Daniela Munoz Barroso searches to find the hidden history of “Mafifa” and the less hidden Conga all while Mafifa’s memory and Barroso’s hearing fade away.

True/False Fest Recap

Eric Kiekeben • March 12, 2023

The True/False Fest is one of Columbia’s most beloved traditions. Every year, the festival takes over downtown Columbia and patrons get a first look at new films coming out from all over the U.S. Multimedia reporter Eric Kiekeben takes us through the festival.

‘Campfire Stories’ offers a sneak peek into the experiences of True/False artists and their work

Audrey Norquest • March 12, 2023

The prompt of the program was “experimentation,” allowing the diverse panel of filmmakers, artists and storytellers a chance to swap stories in which they’ve had to do some trial and error.

REVIEW: Memories keep a village depleted by far-right extremists alive in ‘La Bonga’

Alex Goldstein • March 12, 2023

Telling the story of an Afro Colombian family’s journey to their homeland, directors Sebastián Pinzón Silva and Canela Reyes take viewers on a march through time much deeper than a simple rebirth story.