# 49th Telluride Film Festival

The 49th Telluride Film Festival took place September 2–5, 2022. In June 2022, it was announced that the festival would receive the dissident Russian filmmakers Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko as Guest Directors "as key collaborators in the Festival's programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride". In July 2022 it was announced that author, artist, graphic novelist and publisher Leanne Shapton would design the annual poster for the 49th edition.
Although only divulging its full line-up on the day before it begins, the festival's selections usually can be correctly assumed through films' premiere status in other major fall season film festivals, such as the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. This year's edition has also been commented by Venice Film Festival's Alberto Barbera, who confirmed in an interview for Variety that the Venice premieres Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All, Todd Field's Tár and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Bardo were on Telluride's selection. It was also reported that Sarah Polley's Women Talking was being fought over by Telluride, Venice and Toronto, with the former getting the film's world premiere. The rivalry between the festivals in regards of screening status is not unprecedented, as exemplified by Telluride's stealing the World Premiere status of the Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast out of Toronto's hands in 2021. In 2022, adding to their Sneak Preview selection, the festival was able to swipe Charlotte Wells' Aftersun and Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed's North America Premiere status ahead of TIFF.
Marked by the presence of documentaries, the 2022 edition also saw the presence of "several films making their North American debuts after first premiering at Cannes in May and Venice which is running simultaneously". All the awardees of the Silver Medallion had their films screened at the festival: actress Cate Blanchett (who starred in Tár), director, writer and actress Sarah Polley (who wrote and directed Women Talking) and documentary director Mark Cousins (who directed both The March on Rome and My Name is Alfred Hitchcock).

## Official Sections
### Main program

| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Armageddon Time | Armageddon Time | James Gray | United States |
| Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
| Bobi Wine: Ghetto President | Bobi Wine: Ghetto President | Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp | United Kingdom, Uganda, United States |
| Bones and All | Bones and All | Luca Guadagnino | United States, Italy |
| Broker | 브로커 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | South Korea |
| A Compassionate Spy | A Compassionate Spy | Steve James | United States |
| The Corridors of Power | The Corridors of Power | Dror Moreh | United States |
| Close | Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands, France |
| The End of the World | The End of the World | Matt Tyrnauer | United States |
| Empire of Light | Empire of Light | Sam Mendes | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Future Tense | The Future Tense | Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor | Ireland |
| Good Night Oppy | Good Night Oppy | Ryan White | United States |
| Godland | Volaða land | Hlynur Pálmason | Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden |
| Holy Spider | عنکبوت مقدس | Ali Abbasi | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France |
| Icarus: The Aftermath | Icarus: The Aftermath | Bryan Fogel | United States |
| If These Walls Could Sing | If These Walls Could Sing | Mary McCartney | United Kingdom |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | United Kingdom, United States |
| Last Flight Home | Last Flight Home | Ondi Timoner | United States |
| Living | Living | Oliver Hermanus | United Kingdom |
| The March on Rome | The March on Rome | Mark Cousins | Italy |
| Merkel | Merkel | Eva Weber | United Kingdom |
| My Name is Alfred Hitchcock | My Name is Alfred Hitchcock | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom |
| One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France |
| Retrograde | Retrograde | Matthew Heineman | United States |
| Sr. | Sr. | Chris Smith | United States |
| Squaring the Circle | Squaring the Circle | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom |
| Tár | Tár | Todd Field | United States, Germany |
| Tori and Lokita | Tori et Lokita | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| Wildcat | Wildcat | Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck Frost | United States |
| Women Talking | Women Talking | Sarah Polley | United States |
| The Wonder | The Wonder | Sebastián Lelio | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland |

#### Main Slate: Episodic Form and Short Form

| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Anastasia | Sarah McCarthy | United Kingdom, Russia |
| Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison | Cinque Northern | United States |
| The Best Chef in the World | Ben Proudfoot | United States |
| Guerrilla Habeas | Emma Wall and Betsy Hershey | United States |
| Le pupille | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, United States |
| Marianne | Lara Porzak and Rebecca Ressler | United States |
| Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone | Adam Curtis | United Kingdom |
| The U.S. and the Holocaust (episode 1) | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein | United States |

#### Sneak Previews

| Film | Director(s) | Production countries |
| Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United Kingdom, United States |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | United States |

### Guest Director's Selections

Movies selected for screening at the festival by Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko.
| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | Year |
| Elegy of a Voyage | Aleksandr Sokurov | France, Russia, Netherlands | 2001 |
| Getting to Know the Big, Wide, World | Kira Muratova | Soviet Union | 1978 |
| L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | France | 1934 |
| Oasis | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea | 2002 |
| Where Is the Friend's House? | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | 1987 |
| The Wonders | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, Switzerland, Germany | 2014 |

### Backlot

| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Frames of Love and War | Ran Tal | Israel, United States, United Kingdom |
| Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy | Nancy Buirski | United States |
| Fragments of Paradise | KD Davison | United States |
| High Noon on the Waterfront | David Roberts, Billy Shebar | United States |
| The Last Rider | Alex Holmes | United Kingdom |
| The Méliès Mystery | Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange | France |
| Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova | Daniel Zarvos, Liliane Mutti | Brazil, France |
| The Padilla Affair | Pavel Giroud | Spain, Cuba |
| Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams | Luca Guadagnino | Italy |
| See You Friday, Robinson | Mitra Farahani | France |

### Special Screenings

| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) | Year |
| Orlando | Sally Potter | United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands | 1992 |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China | 2000 |
| The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile | Kathlyn Horan | United States | 2022 |
| The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | Werner Herzog | United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, United States | 2022 |
| Theater of Thought | Werner Herzog | United States | 2022 |
| Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer | Thomas von Steinaecker | Germany, United Kingdom | 2022 |
| Wild Life | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | United States | 2022 |

### Filmmakers of Tomorrow Official Selection
#### Student Prints

Curated and introduced by Gregory Nava.
| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s)/universitie(s) |
| Favorite Daughter | Dana Reilly | United States (University of Texas at Austin) |
| Berry Pickers | Agnes Skonare Karlsson | Sweden, United States (Columbia University) |
| Solo | Anat Eisenberg | Israel (Tel Aviv University) |
| The Rotting Of Casey Culpepper | Daniel Slottje | United States (Columbia University) |
| The Midwife | Anne-Sophie Bailly | France (La Fémis) |

#### Calling Cards

Curated and introduced by Barry Jenkins.
| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Nuture | Sasha Argirov | Canada |
| Neighbour Abdi | Douwe Dijkstra | The Netherlands |
| Uogus (Cherries) | Vytautas Katkus | Lithuania |
| Fire at the Lake | Pierre Menahem | France |
| Un Petite Homme (A Tiny Man) | Aude David and Mikaël Gaudin | France |
| Le Comoran | Lubna Playoust | France |

##### Calling Cards — Redband

Curated and introduced by Barry Jenkins.
| Film | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Starfuckers | Antonio Marziale | United States |
| Zoon | Jonatan Schwenk | Germany |
| Luciene in a World Without Solitude | Geordy Couturiau | France |
| Abyss | Jeppe Lange | Denmark |
| Ambasciatori | Francesco Romano | Italy |
| Bestia | Hugo Covarrubias | Chile |

## Official Awards
### Silver Medallion

* Cate Blanchett, actress for Tár
* Sarah Polley, actress, director, and writer for Women Talking
* Mark Cousins, filmmaker for My Name is Alfred Hitchcock and The March on Rome