Though the Telluride Film Festival’s 47th edition, scheduled for Labor Day weekend, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the annual film retreat has still unveiled what its lineup would have been if the event had come to pass.
The fest held in the Colorado mountains has perennially been one of the fall movie season’s top launching pads, integral to helping put deserving movies on the awards season map. Organizers believe that releasing the lineup may yet prove of some value in terms of garnering attention for worthwhile films.
Here’s the feature lineup:
After Love (director Aleem Khan, UK, 89 min)
All In The Fight For Democracy (dir. Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortรฉs, USA, 102 min)
The Alpinist (dir. Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen, USA, 92 min)
Ammonite (dir. Francis Lee, UK, 117 min)
Andrey Tarkovsky, A Cinema Prayer (dir. Andrey A. Tarkovsky, Italy-Russian Federation-Sweden, 97 min)
Apples (dir. Christos Nikou, Greece-Poland-Slovenia, 90 min)
The Automat (dir. Lisa Hurwitz, USA, 79 min)
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (dir. Frank Marshall, USA, 111 min)
Charlatan (dir. Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic-Ireland-Poland-Slovakia, 118 min)
Concrete Cowboy (dir. Ricky Staub, USA, 111 min)
Dear Mr. Brody (dir. Keith Maitland, USA, 97 min)
The Duke (dir. Roger Michell, UK, 96 min)
The Father (dir. Florian Zeller, UK-France, 97 min)
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds (dir. Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, UK-USA, 97 min)
Ibrahim (dir. Samir Guesmi, France, 84 min)
Mainstream (dir. Gia Coppola, USA, 94 min)
Mandibules (dir. Quentin Dupieux, France, 77 min)
MLK/FBI (dir. Sam Pollard, USA, 104 min)
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World (dir. Kristina Lindstrรถm, Kristian Petri, Sweden, 93 min)
Never Gonna Snow Again (dir. Maลgorzata Szumowska, co-dir. Michaล Englert, Poland-Germany, 113 min)
Nomadland (dir. Chloรฉ Zhao, USA, 108 min)
Notturno (dir. Gianfranco Rosi, Italy-France-Germany, 100 min)
Pray Away (dir. Kristine Stolakis, USA, 101 min)
There Is No Evil (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany-Iran, 152 min)
To The Moon (dir. Tadhg O’Sullivan, Ireland, 76 min)
Torn (dir. Max Lowe, USA, 92 min)
The Truffle Hunters (dir. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Italy-USA-Greece, 84 min)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA, 86 min)
The Way I See It (dir. Dawn Porter, USA, 100 min)
SILVER MEDALLION AWARDS
The honorees chosen for Telluride's 2020 Silver Medallion Awards, which recognize artists’ substantive contributions to cinema, are Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Father), Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet (Ammonite), and lauded director, screenwriter and producer Chloรฉ Zhao (Nomadland).