The titles for the 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival have been unveiled and Peter Hedges’ low-budget zoom drama The Same Storm, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, Joe Wright’s Cyrano and Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon are making their world preems at the fest. They’ll be joined by world preems for Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Michael Pearce’s Encounter, Will Sharpe’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. Choke-full of documentary films, the fest technically cements the status of major contenders for awards in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. Before heading off to TIFF, international auteurs such as Céline Sciamma, Mia Hansen-Løve, Asghar Farhadi are part of the international filmmaker guest list. There is one mystery film that will screen at the fest – so we’re looking forward to the speculation and the eventual confirmation. Here is the copy and paste job of the line-up below:
THE AUTOMAT – Lisa Hurwitz
BECOMING COUSTEAU – Liz Garbus
BELFAST – Kenneth Branagh
BERGMAN ISLAND – Mia Hansen-Løve
BITTERBRUSH – Emelie Mahdavian
C’MON C’MON – Mike Mills
CITIZEN ASHE- Sam Pollard, Rex Miller
COW – Andrea Arnold
CYRANO – Joe Wright
THE DUKE – Roger Michell
THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN – Will Sharpe
ENCOUNTER – Michael Pearce
FAUCI – John Hoffman, Janet Tobias
FLEE – Jonas Poher Rasmussen
HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG – Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller
THE HAND OF GOD – Paolo Sorrentino
A HERO – Asghar Farhadi
JULIA – Julie Cohen, Betsy West
KING RICHARD – Reinaldo Marcus Green
THE LOST DAUGHTER – Maggie Gyllenhaal
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON – Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny Slate
MUHAMMAD ALI – Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
NUCLEAR FAMILY – Ry Russo-Young
PETITE MAMAN – Céline Sciamma
THE POWER OF THE DOG – Jane Campion
PROCESSION – Robert Greene
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN – James Spinney, Peter Middleton
RED ROCKET – Sean Baker
THE RESCUE – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
RIVER – Jennifer Peedom
THE SAME STORM – Peter Hedges
SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD – Vanessa Lapa
SPENCER – Pablo Larraín
TORN – Max Lowe
UNCLENCHING THE FISTS – Kira Kovalenko
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Todd Haynes
Backlot, Telluride’s intimate screening room featuring behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers will screen the following programs:
• ANDREI TARKOVSKY: A CINEMA PRAYER (d. Andrei Tarkovsky)
• BERNSTEIN’S WALL (d. Douglas Tirola)
• DARK FRAMES (d. Tom Thurman)
• EDNA (d. Eryk Rocha)
• JOYCE CAROL OATES: A BODY IN THE SERVICE OF MIND (d. Stig Björkman))
• LAND OF GOLD (d. Peter Sellars, U.S., 2021)
• SONGS FOR DRELLA (d. Ed Lachman, U.S., 1990)
• STAY PRAYED UP (d. D.L. Anderson, Matt Durning)
• THE STORY OF LOOKING (d. Mark Cousins)
• THREE MINUTES – A LENGTHENING (d. Bianca Stigter)
• THE VILLAGE DETECTIVE: A SONG CYCLE (d. Bill Morrison)
Special Screenings will play throughout the Festival including the short film LEAD ME HOME (d. Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos, U.S., 2021) with both filmmakers in person; a new cut of THE OUTSIDERS (d. Francis Ford Coppola, U.S., 1993) presented by Coppola and Matt Dillon; THE RAIN PEOPLE (d. Francis Ford Coppola, U.S., 1969) with Coppola in person; EL GRAN FELLOVE (d. Matt Dillon, U.S., 2020) presented by Dillon; and MISSISSIPPI MASALA (d. Mira Nair, U.S., 1991) with Nair in person.
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
