The line-up for the 42nd Telluride Film Festival has been unveiled. As usual, the official line-up wasn’t announced until the day before the festival starts. Included in the line-up are the world premieres are many high profile, potentially awards seeking films of the 2015 slate including Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette and Lenny Abrahamson’s Room.
Telluride has become a go-to destination for filmmaker and film fans of all sorts. It’s also become a premiere venue for unveiling movies primed for the upcoming awards season. Recent Best Picture winners that have either premiered at or played Telluride include Birdman (2014), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Argo (2012), The Artist (2011), The King’s Speech (2010) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008).
Also included on the line-up are previous festivals including the Cannes prize winning Carol and Son of Saul, Berlin highlights 45 Years and Taxi and recent Venice premieres Beasts of No Nation, Black Mass and Spotlight. The full line-up below:
- 45 Years (directed by Andrew Haigh, U.K.)
- Amazing Grace (directed by Sydney Pollack, U.S.)
- Anomalisa (directed by Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, U.S.)
- Beasts of No Nation (directed by Cary Fukunaga, U.S.)
- Bitter Lake (directed by Adam Curtis, U.K.)
- Black Mass (directed by Scott Cooper, U.S.)
- Carol (directed by Todd Haynes, U.S.)
- He Named Me Malala (directed by Davis Guggenheim, U.S.)
- Heart of a Dog (directed by Lauire Anderson, U.S.)
- Hitchcock/Truffaut (directed by Kent Jones, U.S.)
- Ixcanul (directed by Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala)
- Marguerite (directed by Xavier Giannoli, France)
- Mom and Me (directed by Ken Wardrop, Ireland)
- Only the Dead See the End of the War (directed by Michael War, Bill Guttentag, U.S.-Australia)
- Rams (directed by Grimur Hákonarson, Iceland)
- Room (directed by Lenny Abrahamson, U.K.)
- Siti (directed by Eddie Cahyone, Singapore)
- Son of Saul (directed by Lázló Nemes, Hungary)
- Spotlight (directed by Tom McCarthy, U.S.)
- Steve Jobs (directed by Danny Boyle, U.S.)
- Suffragette (directed by Sarah Gavron, U.K.)
- Taj Mahal (directed by Nicolas Saada, France-India)
- Taxi (directed by Jafar Panahi, Iran)
- Tikkun (directed by Avishai Svian, Israel)
- Time to Choose (directed by Charles Ferguson, U.S.)
- Viva (directed by Paddy Breathach, Ireland)
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (directed by Evgeny Afineevesky, Russia-Ukraine)
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