45th Telluride Film Festival
LocationTelluride, Colorado, United States
Founded1974
Hosted byNational Film Preserve Ltd.
Festival dateOpening: August 31, 2018 (2018-08-31)
Closing: September 3, 2018 (2018-09-03)
WebsiteTelluride Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival

The 45th Telluride Film Festival took place from August 31 to September 3, 2018 in Telluride, Colorado, United States.[1]

Novelist Jonathan Lethem was selected as the guest director of the event.[2] As the guest director, Lethem served as a key collaborator in the festival programming decisions. Telluride honored Alfonso Cuarón, Emma Stone, and Rithy Panh as the Silver Medallion winners.[3]

Official selections

Main programme

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s)
Angels Are Made of Light James Longley 2018 United States, Denmark, Norway
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Pamela B. Green 2018 United States
The Biggest Little Farm John Chester 2018 United States
Birds of Passage Pájaros de verano Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego 2018 Colombia-Denmark-Mexico
Border Gräns Ali Abbasi 2018 Sweden
Boy Erased Joel Edgerton 2018 United States
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Marielle Heller 2018 United States
Christian Wahnschaffe, Parts I & II Urban Gad 1920–1921 Germany
Cœur fidèle Jean Epstein 1923 France
Cold War Zimna wojna Paweł Pawlikowski 2018 Poland, France, United Kingdom
Destroyer Karyn Kusama 2018 United States
Dogman Matteo Garrone 2018 Italy, France
Dovlatov Aleksei German 2018 Russia, Poland, Serbia
Eldorado Markus Imhoof 2018 Germany, Switzerland
The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos 2018 Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Fièvre Louis Delluc 1921 France
First Man Damien Chazelle 2018 United States
Fistful of Dirt Sebastián Silva 2018 United States
Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin 2018 United States
The Front Runner Jason Reitman 2018 United States
Ghost Fleet Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron 2018 United States
Girl Lukas Dhont 2018 Belgium, Netherlands
Graves Without a Name Les tombeaux sans noms Rithy Panh 2018 France, Cambodia
The Great Buster Peter Bogdanovich 2018 United States
Meeting Gorbachev Werner Herzog, André Singer 2018 United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Non-Fiction Doubles vies Olivier Assayas 2018 France
The Old Man & the Gun David Lowery 2018 United States
The Other Side of the Wind Orson Welles 1976/2018 United States
Peterloo Mike Leigh 2018 United Kingdom
Reversing Roe Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg 2018 United States
Roma Alfonso Cuarón 2018 Mexico, United States
Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda 2018 Japan
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead Morgan Neville 2018 United States
Trial by Fire Ed Zwick 2018 United States
Watergate – Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President Charles Ferguson 2018 United States
Whirlpool of Desire Remous Edmond T. Gréville 1934 France
White Boy Rick Yann Demange 2018 United States
The White Crow Ralph Fiennes 2018 United Kingdom

Guest Director's Selections

The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Jonathan Lethem.[4]

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s)
Angel Ernst Lubitsch 1937 United States
Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray 1956 United States
Never Cry Wolf Carroll Ballard 1983 United States
The Tarnished Angels Douglas Sirk 1957 United States
To Be or Not to Be Ernst Lubitsch 1942 United States
The White Meadows کشتزارهای سپید‎ Mohammad Rasoulof 2009 Iran

Backlot

The films were selected and presented by Jeffrey Keil and Danielle Pinet. The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.[5]

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s)
The Eyes of Orson Welles Mark Cousins 2018 United Kingdom
A Final Cut for Orson Ryan Suffern 2018 United States
The Ghost of Peter Sellers Peter Medak 2018 United Kingdom, Cyprus
Hal Amy Scott 2018 United States
Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America Brigitte Berman 2018 Canada
It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story It Must Schwing - Die Blue Note Story Eric Friedler 2018 Germany
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Rob Garver 2018 United States

Filmmakers of Tomorrow

Student Prints

The selection was curated and introduced by Gregory Nava. It selected the best student-produced work around the world.

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production universitie(s)
Lalo's House Kelley Kali 2018 University of Southern California
My Nephew Emmett Kevin Wilson Jr. 2017 New York University
Tracing Addai Esther Neimeier 2018 Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg
The Victory of Charity Der Sieg der Barmherzigkeit Albert Meisl 2017 University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
A Year Jisun Jamie Kim 2018 New York University

Calling Cards

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s)
The Ambassador's Wife Theresa Dahlberg 2017 Sweden
Caroline Logan George, Celine Held 2018 United States
Fauve Jérémy Comte 2018 Canada
The Field Sandhya Suri 2018 France, United Kingdom, India
Mother Of Gan de Lange 2018 Israel
Third Kind Yorgos Zois 2018 Greece, Croatia

Great Expectations

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill.

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s)
Braguino Clément Cogitore 2017 France, Finland
Dark Chamber Ottó Bánovits 2018 Sweden
This Magnificent Cake! Ce magnifique gâteau ! Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels 2018 Belgium, France, Netherlands

Introducing Saba Riazi

The section was intended to highlight the work by Iranian writer and director, Saba Riazi.

English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s)
Ice Cream Saba Riazi 2018 United States, Iran
The Wind is Blowing on My Street Saba Riazi 2010 Iran, United States

Silver Medallion

Special Medallion

References

  1. ^ Tapley, Kristopher (August 30, 2018). "'First Man,' 'Front Runner' and 'Roma' Among 2018 Telluride Film Festival Selections". Variety. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  2. ^ McNary, Dave (June 15, 2018). "Telluride Film Festival Names 'Motherless Brooklyn' Author Jonathan Lethem as Guest Director". Variety. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  3. ^ Erbland, Kate (August 30, 2018). "Telluride Reveals 2018 Full Lineup: 'Destroyer,' 'White Boy Rick,' and 'The Old Man & the Gun' Set for World Premieres". IndieWire. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  4. ^ Kay, Jeremy (June 15, 2018). "Jonathan Lethem named Telluride 2018 guest director". Screendaily. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
  5. ^ Hammond, Pete (August 30, 2018). "Jackman, McConaughey, Redford, Kidman, McCarthy Movies Set For World Premieres In Rockies – Telluride Film Festival". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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