51st Telluride Film Festival

51st Telluride Film Festival
Location	Telluride, Colorado, United States
Founded	1974
Awards	Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion:; Jacques Audiard; Saoirse Ronan; Thelma Schoonmaker; Special Medallion:; Les Films du Losange
Artistic director	Julie Huntsinger (Festival's Programing Director); Kenneth Lonergan (Guest Director); Luke Dorman (Guest Designer)
Festival date	August 30 – September 2, 2024
Website	www.telluridefilmfestival.org
	52nd 50th

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]

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 Title	Original Title	Director(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 Stenson	United States, Canada
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid!		Matt Tyrnauer	United States
Conclave		Edward Berger	United Kingdom, United States
Disclaimer (7 episodes)		Alfonso Cuarón	United Kingdom, United States
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 Cocteau		Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Leonardo da Vinci		Ken 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 Szor	Palestine, Norway
One to One: John & Yoko		Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards	United Kingdom
The Outrun		Nora Fingscheidt	United Kingdom, Germnay
The Piano Lesson		Malcolm Washington	United 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 Texas		Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault
Short Films
A Swim Lesson		Rashida Jones, Will McCormack	United States
Alok		Alex Hedison
The Turnaround		Kyle Thrash, Ben Proudfoot

Guest Directors' Selection

Movies selected for screening at the festival by Kenneth Lonergan.

English Title	Director(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	United States

Special Screenings

English Title	Original Title	Director(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 Schwarz	United 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 Title	Director(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 Berry	United Kingdom
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze	Tilda Swinton, Bartek Dziadosz
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger	David Hinton
Nobu	Matt Tyrnauer	United States
Riefenstahl	Andres Veiel	Germany
The Swallow	Tadhg O’Sullivan	Ireland

Filmmakers of Tomorrow

Student Prints

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

English Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Dragfox	Lisa Ott	United Kingdom (National Film and Television School)
Entre Le Feu et La Claire de Lune	Dominic Yarabe	United States (Stanford University)
Neither Donkey nor Horse	Robin Wang	United States (USC School of Cinematic Arts)
Son	Saman Hosseinpuor	Iran (Isfahan Sepehr College)
The Truck	Elizabeth Rao	United States (New York University)
When Big People Lie	Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz	United States (American Film Institute)

Calling Cards

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

English Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Beautiful Men	Nicolas Keppens	Belgium
Father's Letters	Alexey Evstigneev	France, Russia
Lick a Wound	Nathan Ghali	France
Water Harzard	Alexander David	France
A Wound	Elahe Esmaili	Iran, United Kingdom

Great Expectations

Curated and introduced by Barry Jenkins.

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Jimmy		Yashaddai Owens	United States, France
Two People Exchanging Saliva	Deux Personnes Échangeant de la Salive	Alexandre Singh, Natalie Musteata	France