The 45th Telluride Film Festival took place from August 31 to September 3, 2018 in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem was selected as the guest director of the event. 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.
Official selections Main programme English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s) Angels Are Made of Light James Longley2018 United States, Denmark, Norway Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Pamela B. Green2018 United StatesThe Biggest Little Farm John Chester2018 United States Birds of Passage Pájaros de verano Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego2018 Colombia-Denmark-Mexico Border Gräns Ali Abbasi2018 Sweden Boy Erased Joel Edgerton2018 United States Can You Ever Forgive Me? Marielle Heller2018 United States Christian Wahnschaffe, Parts I & II Urban Gad1920–1921 Germany Cœur fidèle Jean Epstein1923 FranceCold War Zimna wojna Paweł Pawlikowski2018 Poland, France, United KingdomDestroyer Karyn Kusama2018 United States Dogman Matteo Garrone2018 Italy, FranceDovlatov Aleksei German2018 Russia, Poland, SerbiaEldorado Markus Imhoof2018 Germany, Switzerland The Favourite Yorgos Lanthimos2018 Ireland, United Kingdom, United StatesFièvre Louis Delluc1921 France First Man Damien Chazelle2018 United States Fistful of Dirt Sebastián Silva2018 United States Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin2018 United StatesThe Front Runner Jason Reitman2018 United StatesGhost Fleet Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron2018 United StatesGirl Lukas Dhont2018 Belgium, Netherlands Graves Without a Name Les tombeaux sans noms Rithy Panh2018 France, CambodiaThe Great Buster Peter Bogdanovich2018 United StatesMeeting Gorbachev Werner Herzog, André Singer2018 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Non-Fiction Doubles vies Olivier Assayas2018 France The Old Man & the Gun David Lowery2018 United StatesThe Other Side of the Wind Orson Welles1976/2018 United StatesPeterloo Mike Leigh2018 United Kingdom Reversing Roe Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg2018 United States RomaAlfonso Cuarón2018Mexico, United States Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda2018 Japan They'll Love Me When I'm Dead Morgan Neville2018 United States Trial by Fire Ed Zwick2018 United States Watergate – Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control PresidentCharles Ferguson2018United States Whirlpool of Desire Remous Edmond T. Gréville1934 FranceWhite Boy Rick Yann Demange2018 United StatesThe White Crow Ralph Fiennes2018 United Kingdom
Guest Director's Selections The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Jonathan Lethem.
English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s) Angel Ernst Lubitsch1937 United States Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray1956 United States Never Cry Wolf Carroll Ballard1983 United States The Tarnished Angels Douglas Sirk1957 United States To Be or Not to Be Ernst Lubitsch1942 United States The White Meadows کشتزارهای سپید Mohammad Rasoulof2009 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.
English title Original title Director(s) Year Production countrie(s) The Eyes of Orson Welles Mark Cousins2018 United Kingdom A Final Cut for Orson Ryan Suffern2018 United States The Ghost of Peter Sellers Peter Medak2018 United Kingdom, Cyprus Hal Amy Scott2018 United States Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America Brigitte Berman2018 CanadaIt Must Schwing! The Blue Note StoryIt Must Schwing - Die Blue Note Story Eric Friedler2018 Germany What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Rob Garver2018 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 Kali2018 University of Southern CaliforniaMy Nephew Emmett Kevin Wilson Jr.2017 New York UniversityTracing Addai Esther Neimeier2018 Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg The Victory of Charity Der Sieg der Barmherzigkeit Albert Meisl2017 University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaA Year Jisun Jamie Kim2018 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 Dahlberg2017 Sweden Caroline Logan George, Celine Held2018 United States Fauve Jérémy Comte2018 CanadaThe Field Sandhya Suri2018 France, United Kingdom, India Mother Of Gan de Lange2018 IsraelThird 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 Cogitore2017 France, Finland Dark Chamber Ottó Bánovits2018 Sweden This Magnificent Cake! Ce magnifique gâteau ! Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels2018 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 Alfonso Cuarón Emma Stone Rithy Panh
Special Medallion Dieter Kosslick
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