2015 Telluride Film Festival Lineup Announced

Telluride Film Festival Lineup Announced

The 42nd Telluride Film Festival will take place September 4th-7th in Telluride, Colorado with more than 75 films (both feature length and short) screened during the popular festival. Among this year’s selections are films about mobster Whitey Bulger (Black Mass), the founder of Apple (Steve Jobs), and the struggle for women’s rights (Suffragette). The festival also announced they’ll be honoring Danny Boyle, Adam Curtis, and Rooney Mara with Silver Medallion Awards. The Silver Medallion Awards are given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema.”

“We are thrilled to present such an exhilarating, diverse program for the 42nd Telluride Film Festival,” stated executive director Julie Huntsinger. “This year was an abundance of riches, particularly within the documentary category, and we feel privileged to celebrate these films and their artists with our audience in one of the most beautiful locations in the world.”


42nd Telluride Film Festival New Feature Films – Main Program:
CAROL (d. Todd Haynes, U.S., 2015)
AMAZING GRACE (d. Sydney Pollack, U.S., 1972/2015)
ANOMALISA (d. Charlie Kaufman, U.S., 2015)
BEAST OF NO NATION (d. Cary Fukunaga, U.S., 2015)
HE NAMED ME MALALA (d. Davis Guggenheim, U.S., 2015)
STEVE JOBS (d. Danny Boyle, U.S., 2015)
IXCANUL (d. Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala, 2015)
BITTER LAKE (d. Adam Curtis, U.K., 2015)
ROOM (d. Lenny Abrahamson, England, 2015)
BLACK MASS (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2015)
SUFFRAGETTE (d. Sarah Gavron, U.K., 2015)
SPOTLIGHT (d. Tom McCarthy, U.S., 2015)
RAMS (d. Grímur Hákonarson, Iceland, 2015)
MOM AND ME (d. Ken Wardrop, Ireland, 2015)
VIVA (d. Paddy Breathnach, Ireland, 2015)
TAJ MAJAL (d. Nicolas Saada, France-India, 2015)
SITI (d. Eddie Cahyono, Indonesia, 2015)
HEART OF THE DOG (d. Laurie Anderson, U.S. 2014)
45 YEARS (d. Andrew Haigh, England, 2015)
SON OF SAUL (d. Lázló Nemes, Hungary, 2015)
ONLY THE DEAD (d. Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag, U.S.- Australia, 2015)
TAXI (d. Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2015)
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (d. Kent Jones, U.S., 2015)
TIME TO CHOOSE (d. Charles Ferguson, U.S., 2015)
MARGUERITE (d. Xavier Giannoli, France, 2015)
TIKKUN (d. Avishai Sivan, Israel, 2015)
WINTER ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM (d. Evgeny Afineevsky, Russia-Ukraine, 2015)

Revival Programs:
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (d. Jean Eustache, France, 1973)
MES PETITES AMOUREUSES (d. Jean Eustache, France, 1974)
WAKE IN FRIGHT (d. Ted Kotcheff, Australia, 1971)
COCKSUCKER BLUES (d. Robert Frank, U.S., 1979)
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (d. Jean Renoir, France, 1936) + UNCLE YANCO (d. Agnès Varda, France, 1967)
THE MATTEI AFFAIR (d. Francesco Rosi, Italy, 1972)

Backlot Programs:
CINEMA: A PUBLIC AFFAIR (d. Tatiana Brandrup, Russia, 2015)
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (d. Adam Curtis, U.K., 2002)
INGRID BERGMAN – IN HER OWN WORDS (d. Stig Björkman, Sweden, 2015)
IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT OAKS (d. George Mourier, France, 2005)
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2015)
SEMBENE! (d. Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman, U.S.-Senegal, 2015)
DREAMING AGAINST THE WORLD (d. Tim Sternberg, Francisco Bello, U.S., 2015) + TYRUS (Pamela Tom, U.S., 2015)

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