Telluride Film Festival Reveals its 2020 Lineup Despite Cancellation

This year’s Telluride Film Festival was forced to cancel due to an in-person and/or digital event not being possible. And, like this year’s Cannes, Telluride went ahead and revealed which films would have been part of the 2020 event. Call this the Telluride-label, or whatever you deem for it to be called, but it does showcase quite a few surprises.

The lineup would have been comprised of 29 new narrative and documentary feature films, big titles include “Ammonite” “Concrete Cowboy” “Nomadland” and “The Father.”

17 of the 29 Telluride titles are documentaries.

However, many of these films will not be at TIFF this year, some are at Venice, and those titles include Roger Michell’s “The Duke,” Gia Copolla’s “Mainstream,” and Quentin Dupieux’s “Mandibules.” Ostensibly, and curiously, missing from the Telluride lineup are Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove/Lover’s Rock,” "Regina King’s “One Night in Miami,” and Frederick Wiseman’s “City Hall.”

“Though we aren’t able to present our program in-person as planned, we still want to announce the lineup to bring attention to these brilliant films,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “We’ve listed everything we know about screening opportunities so that audiences may watch as many of these films as possible. The Festival will continue to do everything in its power to champion and promote this artform and the people who create it.”

“Despite everything, 2020 has turned out to be another incredibly strong year for film,” said Huntsinger. “We were able to consider everything we’d hoped to. We love this program and the way it reflects this fascinating moment in domestic and international cinema, as well as life.”

AFTER LOVE (dir. Aleem Khan, UK, 89 min) 
ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY (dir. Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés, USA, 102 min) 
THE ALPINIST (dir. Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen, USA, 92 min)
AMMONITE (dir. Francis Lee, UK, 117 min)
ANDREY TARKOVSKY. A CINEMA PRAYER (dir. Andrey A. Tarkovsky, Italy-Russian Federation-Sweden, 97 min) 
APPLES (dir. Christos Nikou, Greece-Poland-Slovenia, 90 min) 
THE AUTOMAT (dir. Lisa Hurwitz, USA, 79 min)
THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART (dir. Frank Marshall, USA, 111 min)
CHARLATAN (dir. Agnieszka Holland, Czech Republic-Ireland-Poland-Slovakia, 118 min) 
CONCRETE COWBOY (dir. Ricky Staub, USA, 111 min)|
DEAR MR. BRODY (dir. Keith Maitland, USA, 97 min)
THE DUKE (dir. Roger Michell, UK, 96 min)
THE FATHER (dir. Florian Zeller, UK-France, 97 min)
FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS (dir. Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, UK-USA, 97 min)
IBRAHIM (dir. Samir Guesmi, France, 84 min)
MAINSTREAM (dir. Gia Coppola, USA, 94 min)
MANDIBULES (dir. Quentin Dupieux, France, 77 min)
MLK/FBI (dir. Sam Pollard, USA, 104 min)
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (dir. Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri, Sweden, 93 min)
NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN (dir. Małgorzata Szumowska, co-dir. Michał Englert, Poland-Germany, 113 min)
NOMADLAND (dir. Chloé Zhao, USA, 108 min)
NOTTURNO (dir. Gianfranco Rosi, Italy-France-Germany, 100 min)
PRAY AWAY (dir. Kristine Stolakis, USA, 101 min)
THERE IS NO EVIL (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany-Iran, 152 min)
TO THE MOON (dir. Tadhg O’Sullivan, Ireland, 76 min)
TORN (dir. Max Lowe, USA, 92 min)
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (dir. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Italy-USA-Greece, 84 min)
TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION (dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, USA, 86 min)
THE WAY I SEE IT (dir. Dawn Porter, USA, 100 min)