Telluride Film Festival guest directors explained

The Guest Director position is held by a different individual each year who is invited by the Telluride Film Festival Directors to join them in the creation of the festival program. The guest director serves as a key collaborator in all of the festival's programming decisions, bringing new ideas and, quite often, overlooked films to Telluride. Below is a list of each guest director followed by the films the director specifically chose to highlight.

Guest Directors

!Edition!Guest Director!Selection(s)(English Title)!Selection(s)(Original Title)!Director(s)!Production Countrie(s)!Year
15th (1988)Donald RichieJapan's Cutting Edgea 2-hour collection of Japanese film dating from 1981 to 1988
Remembering Sessue Hayakawaa two film montage of this film great's first roles in the 1914 film Wrath of the Gods
The Dragon PainterWilliam WorthingtonUnited States1919
16th (1989)John McNaughtonUnited States1986
Make Way for Tomorrow Leo McCarey1956
17th (1990Bertrand TavernierJustin de MarseilleMaurice TourneurFrance 1935
Pursued Raoul WalshUnited States1947
18th (1991)Laurie AndersonDanzon María NovaroMexico1991
New Video Artthe first video projection program at the festival which included a series of modern video shorts.
19th (1992)G. Cabrera InfanteLaughter Harry d'Abbadie d'ArrastUnited States1930
Víctimas del pecado Emilio FernándezMexico1951
La Virgen de la Caridad Ramón PeónCuba1930
20th (1993)John BoormanFear and DesireStanley KubrickUnited States1953
Upstage Monta Bell1926
21st (1994)John SimonIl SorpassoDino RisiItaly1962
One Fine DayUn certo giornoErmanno Olmi1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Sydney PollackUnited States1969
22nd (1995)[1] Phillip LopateFloating CloudsUkigumoMikio NaruseJapan1955
The Hard Way United States1943
WelfareFrederick Wiseman1975
23rd (1996)B. Ruby Rich
24th (1997)Peter Von Bagh
25th (1998)Peter Bogdanovich
26th (1999)[2] Peter SellarsAllah TantouDavid AchkarGuinea, France1992
Dust in the WindHou Hsiao-hsienTaiwan1986
27th (2000)[3] Edgardo Cozarinsky
28th (2001)Salman RushdieMetropolisFritz LangGermany1927
AlphavilleJean-Luc GodardFrance1965
SolarisSolyarisAndrei TarkovskySoviet Union1972
29th (2002)[4] Bitter RiceRiso AmaroGiuseppe De SantisItaly1949
Bandits of Orgosolo Banditi a OrgosoloVittorio De Seta1961
Il Posto Ermanno Olmi
30th (2003)They Were FiveLa Belle Equipe France1936
Un Carnet de Bal1937
Panique1946
31st (2004)[5] Buck HenryMillion Dollar LegsEdward F. ClineUnited States1932
PaydayDon Carpenter
HungerSultHenning CarlsenDenmark, Norway, Sweden1966
32nd (2005)The PassengerProfessione: reporterMichelangelo AntonioniItaly1975
Wanda Barbara LodenUnited States1970
The Spirit of the Beehive El espíritu de la colmenaVíctor EriceSpain1973
33rd (2006)[6] Jean-Pierre GorinMaldoneJean GrémillonFrance1928
Stormy WatersRemorques1941
Summer LightLumière d'Ètè1943
34th (2007)[7] Edith KramerThe Way You Wanted MeSellaisena kuin sinä minut halusitTeuvo TulioFinland1944
Millions Like UsSidney Gilliat and Frank LaunderUnited Kingdom1943
Spring Shower (or Marie, a Hungarian Legend)Tavaszi záporPál FejösHungary1932
35th (2008)[8] Slavoj ZizekNightmare AlleyEdmund GoldingUnited States1947
On Dangerous GroundNicholas Ray1952
SecondsJohn Frankenheimer1966
36th (2009)[9] Alexander PayneDay of the OutlawStelios Roccos & James BurroughsUnited States1959
The Breaking PointMichael Curtiz1950
Make Way for TomorrowLeo McCarey1937
37th (2010)[10] Michael OndaatjeThe AscentVoskhozhdeniyeLarisa ShepitkoSoviet Union1977
ConfidenceBizalomHungary1980
Here’s Your LifeHär har du ditt livJan TroellSweden1966
Fat CityJohn HustonUnited States1972
The HustlerRobert Rossen1961
Mother Dao, the TurtlelikeMoeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkendeVincent MonnikendamNetherlands1995
38th (2011)[11] Caetano VelosoThe ApartmentBilly WilderUnited States1960
AnicetoLeonardo FavioArgentina2008
Vivre Sa VieJean-Luc GodardFrance1962
The Grand ManeuverLes Grandes ManœuvresRené Clair1955
Black God, White DevilDeus e o Diabo na Terra do SolGlauber RochaBrazil1964
Nordeste: Cordel, Repente E CançãoTânia Quaresma1975
39th (2012)[12] StalkerAndrei TarkovskySoviet Union1979
Beau TravailClaire DenisFrance1999
TogetherTillsammansLukas MoodyssonSweden2000
Lessons of DarknessLektionen in FinsternisWerner HerzogFrance, United Kingdom, Germany1992
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver SteinerDie große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers SteinerGermany1974
BarakaRon FrickeUnited States1992
UnrelatedJoanna HoggUnited Kingdom2007
40th (2013)[13] Don DeLilloLa Morte RougeVictor EriceSpain2006
The Zapruder FilmUnited States1963
Phillip LopateNaked ChildhoodL'enfance nueMaurice PialatFrance1968
Buck HenryThe Terminal ManMike HodgesUnited States1972
Michael OndaatjeElephantAlan ClarkeUnited Kingdom1989
La JetéeChris MarkerFrance1962
B. Ruby RichOne Way or AnotherDe Cierta ManeraSara GómezCuba1974
Salman RushdieMahanagarSatyajit RayIndia1963
41st (2014)[14] Guy Maddin and Kim MorganCalifornia SplitRobert AltmanUnited States1974
MJoseph Losey1951
Man's CastleFrank Borzage1933
The Road to GloryHoward Hawks1936
Wicked WomanRussell Rouse1953
Il GridoMichelangelo AntonioniItaly1957
42nd (2015)[15] Rachel KushnerThe Mother and the WhoreLa maman et la putainJean EustacheFrance1973
My Little LovesMes Petites AmoureusesFrance1974
Wake in FrightTed KotcheffAustralia1971
Cocksucker BluesRobert FrankUnited States1979
A Day in the CountryPartie de campagneJean RenoirFrance1936
Uncle YancoOncle YancoAgnès VardaFrance1967
The Mattei AffairIl Caso MatteiFrancesco RosiItaly1972
43rd (2016)[16] Volker SchlöndorffI Was NineteenIch war neunzehnKonrad WolfEast Germany1968
It Was in May (or It Was the Month of May)Byl mesyats mayMarlen KhutsievSoviet Union1970
The Barefoot ContessaJoseph L. MankiewiczUnited States1954
Les Enfants terriblesJean-Pierre MelvilleFrance1950
The Fire WithinLe Feu folletLouis Malle1963
SpiesSpioneFritz LangGermany1928
44th (2017)[17] Joshua OppenheimerThe Night of the HunterCharles LaughtonUnited States1955
Titicut FolliesFrederick Wiseman1967
Hello CinemaSalaam CinemaMohsen MakhmalbafIran1995
Hotel of the StarsJon Bang CarlsenDenmark1981
The Umbrellas of CherbourgLes Parapluies de CherbourgJacques DemyFrance1964
Even Dwarfs Started SmallAuch Zwerge haben klein angefangenWerner HerzogWest Germany1970
45th (2018)[18] Jonathan LethemAngelErnst LubitschUnited States1937
Bigger Than LifeNicholas Ray1956
Never Cry WolfCarroll Ballard1983
The Tarnished AngelsDouglas Sirk1957
To Be or Not to BeErnst Lubitsch1942
The White MeadowsKeshtzarhaye sepidMohammad RasoulofIran2009
46th (2019)[19] Pico IyerLate AutumnAkibiyoriYasujirō OzuJapan1960
When a Woman Ascends the StairsOnna ga kaidan o agaru tokiMikio Naruse
The Makioka SistersSasame-yukiKon Ichikawa1983
Mr. and Mrs. IyerAparna SenIndia2002
Under the SunV luchakh solncaVitaly ManskyCzech Republic, Russia, Germany, Latvia, North Korea2015
47th (2020)The 47th Telluride Film Festival did not occur in 2020 due the COVID-19 pandemic.
48th (2021)[20] Barry JenkinsWest Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of LibertyWest Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la libertéMed HondoFrance, Mauritania, Algeria1979
ChocolatClaire DenisFrance1988
Looking for LangstonIsaac JulienUnited Kingdom1989
GardenAdi BarashIsrael2003
Russian ArkRusskij kovchegAlexander SokurovRussia
Kahlil Joseph: Selected WorksKahlil JosephUnited States-
49th (2022)[21] Kantemir Balagov and Kira KovalenkoL'AtalanteJean VigoFrance1934
Elegy of a VoyageElegiya dorogiAleksandr SokurovFrance, Russia, Netherlands2001
Getting to Know the Big, Wide, WorldPoznavaya belyy svetKira MuratovaSoviet Union1978
Oasis오아시스Lee Chang-dongSouth Korea2002
Where Is the Friend's House?Khane-ye dust kojastAbbas KiarostamiIran1987
The WondersLe meraviglieAlice RohrwacherItaly, Switzerland, Germany2014
50th (2023)[22] Steve McQueenZero for ConductZéro de ConduiteJean VigoFrance1933
Mira NairThe Music RoomJalsagharSatyajit RayIndia1958
Alfonso CuarónJonah Who Will Be 25 on the Year 2000Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000Alain TannerFrance-Switzerland1976
Rachel KushnerJuvenile CourtFrederick WisemanUnited States1973
Ethan HawkeAll That JazzBob FosseUnited States1979
Adam CurtisThe Long Good FridayJohn MackenzieUnited Kingdom1980

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