Lineup Announced for the 2021 Telluride Film Festival

Just a day before the 2021 festival begins, the full Telluride Film Festival lineup has been announced.

As per usual, the lineup features potential Oscar hopefuls such as The Power of the Dog, King Richard, Spencer, and Belfast, which was supposed to have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival but is now having its premiere at Telluride.

Here is the official Telluride lineup:

Main Program:

• The Automat (dir. Lisa Hurwitz)
• Becoming Cousteau (dir. Liz Garbus)
• Belfast (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
• Bergman Island (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
• Bitterbrush (dir. Emelie Mahdavian)
• C’mon C’mon (dir. Mike Mills)
• Citizen Ashe (dir. Sam Pollard and Rex Miller)
• Cow (dir. Andrea Arnold)
• Cyrano (dir. Joe Wright)
• The Duke (dir. Roger Michelle)
• The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain (dir. Will Sharpe)
• Encounter (dir. Michael Pearce)
• Fauci (dir. John Hoffman and Janet Tobias)
• Flee (dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
• Hallelujah: Leonardo Cohen, A Journey, A Song (dir. Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller)
• The Hand Of God (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
• A Hero (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
• Julia (dir. Julie Cohen and Betsy West)
• King Richard (dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green)
• The Lost Daughter (dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal)
• Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate)
• Muhammad Ali (dir. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon)
• Nuclear Family (dir. Ry Russo-Young)
• Petite Maman (dir. Céline Sciamma)
• The Power Of The Dog (dir. Jane Campion)
• Procession (dir. Robert Greene)
• The Real Charlie Chaplin (dir. James Spinney)
• Red Rocket (dir. Sean Baker)
• The Rescue (dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin)
• River (dir. Jennifer Peedom)
• The Same Storm (dir. Peter Hedges)
• Speer Goes To Hollywood (dir. Vanessa Lapa)
• Spencer (dir. Pablo Larraín)
• Torn (dir. Max Lowe)
• Unclenching The Fists (dir. Kira Kovalenko)
• The Velvet Underground (dir. Todd Haynes)

Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins, who will serve as the festivals guest director, has curated films as the selection for a retrospective:

• Chocolat (dir. Claire Denis, 1988)
• Garden (dir. Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, 2003)
• Looking For Langston (dir. Isaac Julien, 1989)
• Russian Ark (dir. Alexsandr Sokurov, 2003)
• West Indies (dir. Med Hondo, 1979)

Additional revival programs include:

• The Apaches Of Athens (dir. Dimítrios Gaziadis, 1929)
• Fragments Of An Empire (dir. Fridrikh Ermler, 1929)

Backlot:

• Andrei Tarkovsyk: A Cinema Prayer (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 2019)
• Bernstein’s Wall (dir. Douglas Tirola)
• Dark Frames (dir. Tom Thurman)
• Edna (dir. Eryk Rocha)
• Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In The Service Of Mind (dir. Stig Björkman)
• Land Of Gold (dir. Peter Sellars)
• Songs For Drella (dir. Ed Lachman, 1990)
• Stay Prayed Up (dir. D.L. Anderson and Matt Durning)
• The Story Of Looking (dir. Mark Cousins)
• Three Minutes – A Lengthening (dir. Biance Stigter)
• The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (dir. Bill Morrison)

Other special screenings include:

• El Gran Fellove (dir. Matt Dillon, 2020)
• Lead Me Home (dir. Jon Shenk)
• Mississippi Masala (dir. Mira Nair, 1991)
• The Outsiders (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1993, a new cut)
• The Rain People (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1969)

The Telluride Film Festival will being tomorrow, September 2nd 2021, and run until September 6.