The 43rd Telluride Film Festival took place on September 2–5, 2016, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Director Volker Schlöndorff was appointed as the year's guest director. Telluride honored Casey Affleck, Amy Adams, and Pablo Larraín as the Silver Medallion awardees. The festival line-up was announced on September 1, 2016.
Official selections Main program Title Director(s) Production countrie(s) Amazing Grace Alan Elliott United States Arrival Denis Villeneuve United States The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography Errol Morris United States Bleed for This Ben Younger United States California Typewriter Doug Nichol United States Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary John Scheinfeld United States The End of Eden Angus Macqueen United Kingdom Finding Oscar Ryan Suffern United States Fire at Sea Gianfranco Rosi Italy, France Frantz François Ozon France Gentleman Rissient Benoît Jacquot, Pascal Merigeau, Guy Seligmann France Graduation Cristian Mungiu Romania, France, Belgium Into the Inferno Werner Herzog United Kingdom, Austria The Ivory Game Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani Austria, United States La La Land Damien Chazelle United States Lost in Paris Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon France, Belgium Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan United States Maudie Aisling Walsh Canada, Ireland Men: A Love Story Mimi Chakarova United States Moonlight Barry Jenkins United States My Journey Through French Cinema Bertrand Tavernier France Neruda Pablo Larraín Chile, Argentina, France, Spain Norman Joseph Cedar United States, Israel Alexander KordaMarc AllégretMarcel Pagnol France Sully Clint Eastwood United States Things to Come Mia Hansen-Løve France, Germany Through the Wall Rama Burshtein United States, Israel Toni Erdmann Maren Ade Germany, Austria Una Benedict Andrews United Kingdom Variety E. A. Dupont Germany Wakefield Robin Swicord United States
Guest Director's Selections The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Volker Schlöndorff. Title Director(s) Production countrie(s) The Barefoot Contessa Joseph L. Mankiewicz United States Les Enfants terribles Jean-Pierre Melville France The Fire Within Louis Malle France I Was Nineteen Konrad Wolf East Germany It Was the Month of May Marlen Khutsiev USSR Spies Fritz Lang Germany
Filmmakers of Tomorrow Student Prints The selection was curated and introduced by Gregory Nava. It selected the best student-produced work around the world. Title Director(s) Production universitie(s) And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye Francisca Alegría Columbia University Edmond Nina Gantz National Film and Television School Un état d'urgence (State of Emergency) Tarek Roehlinger Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Icebox Daniel Sawka American Film Institute Nocturne in Black Jimmy Keyrouz Columbia University Tear of the Peony Yuxi Li Columbia University
Calling Cards The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. It selected new works from promising filmmakers. Title Director(s) Production countrie(s) 4.1 Miles Daphne Matziaraki United States, Greece Asunder Nathalie Álvarez Mesén Sweden A Coat Made Dark Jack O'Shea Ireland Fais le mort William Laboury France The Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere Greg Loser United States Little Bullets Alphan Eşeli Turkey Rhonna and Donna Daina Oniunas-Pusić United Kingdom
Great Expectations The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. Title Director(s) Production countrie(s) Dirt Darius Clark Monroe United States The Gambler Karim Lakzadeh Iran Le Gouffre Vincent Le Port France
Frontlot/Backlot The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Title Director(s) Production countrie(s) Beauties of the Night María José Cuevas Mexico Bernadette Lafont and God Created the Free Woman Esther Hoffenberg France Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens United States Cool Cats Janus Køster-Rasmussen Denmark The Family Whistle Michele Salfi Russo United States, Italy A Fanatic Heart – Bob Geldof on William Butler Yeats Gerry Hoban Ireland Gulag Angus Macqueen United Kingdom I Called Him Morgan Kasper Collin Sweden, United States Mifune: The Last Samurai Steven Okazaki United States Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown Gregory Monro France
Silver Medallion Casey Affleck Amy Adams Pablo Larraín
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