51st Telluride Film Festival

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51st Telluride Film Festival
Location Telluride, Colorado, United States
Founded1974
Awards Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion:

Jacques Audiard
Saoirse Ronan
Thelma Schoonmaker

Special Medallion:
Les Films du Losange
Artistic directorJulie Huntsinger (Festival's Programing Director)
Kenneth Lonergan (Guest Director)
Luke Dorman (Guest Designer)
Festival date (2024-August-30) (2024-September-02)August 30 – September 2, 2024
Website www.telluridefilmfestival.org
52nd

The 51st Telluride Film Festival took place between August 30 and September 2, 2024, in Telluride, Colorado. [1] [2] American filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan was chosen as the festival Guest Director. Luke Dorman, the Principal Graphic Designer at Meow Wolf, returned as the Guest Designer. [3]

Contents

The Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion will be presented to French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan and American editor Thelma Schoonmaker. While the Special Medallion will be award to French film company Les Films du Losange. [4]

Official Sections

The event's program was revealed one day before its start, as customary. [5]

Main Program

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia India, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Anora Sean Baker United States
Apocalypse in the Tropics Apocalipse nos Trópicos Petra Costa Brazil, United States, Denmark
Better Man Michael Gracey Australia
Bird Andrea Arnold United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States
Blink Daniel Roher, Edmund StensonUnited States, Canada
Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid! Matt Tyrnauer United States
Conclave Edward Berger United Kingdom, United States
Disclaimer (7 episodes) Alfonso Cuarón
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Embeth Davidtz South Africa
Emilia Pérez Jacques Audiard France
The End Joshua Oppenheimer Ireland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom
The Friend Siegel & McGehee United States
In Waves and War Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Jean CocteauLisa Immordino Vreeland
Leonardo da VinciKen Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Maria Pablo Larraín Italy, Germany
Martha R.J. Cutler United States
Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot Australia
Misericordia Miséricorde Alain Guiraudie France, Portugal, Spain
Nickel Boys RaMell Ross United States
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel SzorPalestine, Norway
One to One: John & Yoko Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-EdwardsUnited Kingdom
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt United Kingdom, Germnay
The Piano Lesson Malcolm WashingtonUnited States
Piece by Piece Morgan Neville United States
Santosh Sandhya Suri India, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Saturday Night Jason Reitman United States
The Seed of the Sacred Fig دانه انجیر مقدس Mohammad Rasoulof Iran, Germany, France
Separated Errol Morris United States, Mexico
September 5 Tim Fehlbaum Germany
Social Studies Lauren Greenfield United States
The White House Effect Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos
Will & Harper Josh Greenbaum
Zurawski v TexasMaisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
Short Films
A Swim Lesson Rashida Jones, Will McCormack United States
AlokAlex Hedison
The TurnaroundKyle Thrash, Ben Proudfoot

Guest Directors' Selection

Movies selected for screening at the festival by Kenneth Lonergan.

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Arch of Triumph (1948) Lewis Milestone United States
Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick United States, United Kingdom
Doctor Zhivago (1965) David Lean United Kingdom, Italy, United States
Grand Hotel (1932) Edmund Goulding United States
My Darling Clementine (1946) John Ford

Special Screenings

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Beauty and the Beast (1946)La Belle et la Bête Jean Cocteau France
Charles Dead or Alive (1969)Charles mort ou vif Alain Tanner Switzerland
Fly (2024)Christina Clusiau, Shaul SchwarzUnited States, Australia
Hindle Wakes (1952) Arthur Crabtree United Kingdom
Prince of Broadway (2008) Sean Baker United States

Backlot

Behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers. [6]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things Mark Cousins United Kingdom
¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! Arthur Bradford United States
Chain Reactions Alexandre O. Philippe
The Easy Kind Katy Chevigny
Her Name Was Moviola Howard BerryUnited Kingdom
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze Tilda Swinton, Bartek Dziadosz
Made in England: The Films of Powell and PressburgerDavid Hinton
Nobu Matt Tyrnauer United States
Riefenstahl Andres Veiel Germany
The SwallowTadhg O’SullivanIreland

Filmmakers of Tomorrow

Student Prints

The best in student-produced work from around the globe. Curated and introduced by Gregory Nava. [6]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
DragfoxLisa OttUnited Kingdom (National Film and Television School)
Entre Le Feu et La Claire de LuneDominic YarabeUnited States (Stanford University)
Neither Donkey nor HorseRobin WangUnited States (USC School of Cinematic Arts)
SonSaman HosseinpuorIran (Isfahan Sepehr College)
The TruckElizabeth RaoUnited States (New York University)
When Big People LieGianfranco Fernández-RuizUnited States (American Film Institute)

Calling Cards

Resonant work in cinema in the short form. Curated and introduced by Barry Jenkins. [6]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Beautiful MenNicolas KeppensBelgium
Father's LettersAlexey EvstigneevFrance, Russia
Lick a WoundNathan GhaliFrance
Water HarzardAlexander DavidFrance
A WoundElahe EsmailiIran, United Kingdom

Great Expectations

Curated and introduced by Barry Jenkins.

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
JimmyYashaddai OwensUnited States, France
Two People Exchanging SalivaDeux Personnes Échangeant de la SaliveAlexandre Singh, Natalie MusteataFrance

Official Awards

Silver Medallion

Special Medallion

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