The 50th Telluride Film Festival took place between August 31 and September 4, 2023, in Telluride, Colorado. Marking the fiftieth edition of the festival,

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, Adam Curtis, Ethan Hawke, Rachel Kushner,

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, and Mira Nair, all of them past guests, were invited to return as Guest Directors. The poster for Telluride Film Festival's fiftieth anniversary, designed by Luke Dorman, was released in July 2023. Dorman is the Principal Graphic Designer at

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. The event's programs was revealed one day before its start, as customary, though it is entirely possible to predict some of the event's titles based on the films' premiere status shared by other festivals, such as the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. The marketing material for Andrew Haigh's ''

All of Us Strangers ''All of Us Strangers'' is a 2023 British romantic fantasy film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and loosely based on the 1987 novel ''Strangers'' by Taichi Yamada. The film stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy. It ...

'' also shared it's place on the selection a few days before officially confirmed by the festival's line-up. Filmmakers Yorgos Lanthimos, Alice Rohrwacher and

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were this year's recipients of the

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, while Martin Scorsese's The Film Foundation was the winner of the Special Medallion.

Official Sections

Main Program

Main Slate: Episodic Form and Short Form

Sneak Previews

Guest Directors' Selection

Movies selected for screening at the festival by

, Adam Curtis, Ethan Hawke, Rachel Kushner,

, and Mira Nair.

Special Screenings

Film Restorations

Backlot

Filmmakers of Tomorrow Official Selection

Student Prints

Curated and introduced by Gregory Nava

Calling Cards

Curated and introduced by

Barry Jenkins Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film ''My Josephine'' (2003), he directed his first feature film ''Medicine for Melancholy'' (2008) for which he received an Indep ...

Great Expectations

Curated and introduced by

Official Awards

Silver Medallion

The Silver Medallion Awards is given to recognize an artist’s significant contribution to the world of cinema. * Yorgos Lanthimos, director (for ''

Poor Things ''Poor Things'' is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize the same year. The novel was called "a magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book" by the '' London ...

'') * Alice Rohrwacher, director (for '' La Chimera'') *

, director (for '' Anselm'' and ''

Perfect Days ''Perfect Days'' is a 2023 drama film directed by Wim Wenders, from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film combines four short stories and stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a toilet ...

'')

Special Medallion

The Special Medallion celebrates a hero of cinema who preserves, honors and presents essential, meaningful films. * The Film Foundation

References

External links

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