| 47th Telluride Film Festival | |
| Location: | Telluride, Colorado, United States |
| Founded: | 1974 |
| Host: | National Film Preserve Ltd. |
| Date: | - |
| Website: | Telluride Film Festival |
| Main: | Telluride Film Festival |
| Previous: | 46th |
| Next: | 48th |
The 47th Telluride Film Festival was scheduled to take place on September 4–7, 2020. In May 2020, it was announced that the festival would kick off a day earlier on September 3 for safety purposes.[1] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Colorado, the festival announced its cancellation on July 14, 2020.[2] Telluride was due to honor the Silver Medallion to Chloé Zhao, Anthony Hopkins, and Kate Winslet.[3]
Telluride announced the year's initial line-up on August 3, 2020.[4] Ammonite and Concrete Cowboy were set to world premiere at the festival, but the two films were screened for the first time at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival instead.[5] Nomadland was also set to premiere at the festival, but it premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.[6] Telluride held a drive-in screening of the film at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.[7]
These films were set to screen at the festival before its cancellation.[8]
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Love | Aleem Khan | United Kingdom | |
| Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés | United States | ||
| The Alpinist | Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen | United States | |
| Ammonite | Francis Lee | United Kingdom | |
| Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer | Andrei Tarkovsky | Italy, Russian Federation, Sweden | |
| Apples | Christos Nikou | Greece, Poland, Slovenia | |
| The Automat | Lisa Hurwitz | United States | |
| Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart | Frank Marshall | United States | |
| Charlatan | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia | |
| Concrete Cowboy | Ricky Staub | United States | |
| Dear Mr. Brody | Keith Maitland | United States | |
| The Duke | Roger Michell | United Kingdom | |
| The Father | Florian Zeller | United Kingdom, France | |
| Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| Ibrahim | Samir Guesmi | France | |
| Mainstream | Gia Coppola | United States | |
| Mandibles | Quentin Dupieux | France | |
| MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | United States | |
| The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri | Sweden | |
| Never Gonna Snow Again | Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert | Poland, Germany | |
| Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States | |
| Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France, Germany | |
| Pray Away | Kristine Stolakis | United States | |
| There Is No Evil | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany, Iran | |
| To the Moon | Tadhg O'Sullivan | Ireland | |
| Torn | Max Lowe | United States | |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | Italy, United States, Greece | |
| Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation | Lisa Immordino Vreeland | United States | |
| The Way I See It | Dawn Porter | United States |
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Letter Room | Elvira Lind | United States | |
| Linda and the Mockingbirds | James Keach | United States | |
| Paws in Prison | Bill Guttentag | United States | |
| The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima | Otto Bell | Japan, United States | |
| When We Were Bullies | Jay Rosenblatt | United States |
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) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border | Shu Zhu, Ino Yang Popper | American Film Institute | |
| Forever | Mitch McGlocklin | University of South Carolina | |
| Metamorphosis | Xi Wang | University of South Carolina | |
| Peeps | Sophie Somerville | Victorian College of the Arts | |
| Silento | Esteban García Vernaza | Columbia University | |
| Something to Believe In | Fany de la Chica | Columbia University | |
| Under the Heavens | Gustavo Milan | New York University | |
| Viktor on the Moon | Christian Arhoff | National Film School of Denmark |
The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Da Yie | Anthony Nti | Belgium, Ghana | |
| Gramercy | Jamil McGinnis, Pat Heywood | United States | |
| Unforgivable | Marlén Viñayo | El Salvador |
The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin, Benny, Ben | Paul Shkordoff | Canada | |
| Bittu | Karishma Dev Dube | India, United States | |
| Community Gardens | Vytautas Katkus | Lithuania | |
| David | Zachary Woods | United States | |
| I, Julia | Arvin Kananian | Sweden | |
| Leave of Absence | Anton Sazonov | Russian Federation | |
| The Lost Astronaut | Ben Proudfoot | United States |