# 46th Telluride Film Festival

The 46th Telluride Film Festival took place from August 30 to September 2, 2019, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Author Pico Iyer was selected as the guest director of the event. Telluride honored Renée Zellweger, Adam Driver, and Philip Kaufman as the Silver Medallion winners. Sound studio Dolby Laboratories received the Special Medallion award.

## Official selections
### Main programme

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| The Aeronauts | Tom Harper | United States, United Kingdom |
| The Assistant | Kitty Green | United States |
| The Australian Dream | Daniel Gordon | Australia |
| Beanpole | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
| Brave Souls: Three Shorts Fire in Paradise Into the Fire Lost and Found | Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper Orlando von Einsiedel | United States Iraq, United Kingdom Bangladesh, United Kingdom |
| The Climb | Michael Angelo Covino | United States |
| Country Music (Episode: "The Sons and Daughters of America (1964-1968)") | Ken Burns | United States |
| Coup 53 | Taghi Amirani | United Kingdom |
| Diego Maradona | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom |
| Family Romance, LLC | Werner Herzog | United States, Japan |
| First Cow | Kelly Reichardt | United States |
| Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold | United States |
| A Hidden Life | Terrence Malick | United States, Germany |
| The Human Factor | Dror Moreh | United Kingdom |
| Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (Episodes: "Episode 1" and "Episode 3") | Davis Guggenheim | United States |
| Judy | Rupert Goold | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States |
| The Last Vermeer | Dan Friedkin | United States |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | United States |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton | United States |
| Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | Ric Burns | United States |
| Pain and Glory | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| The Phantom Carriage | Victor Sjöström | Sweden |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | France |
| The Report | Scott Z. Burns | United States |
| Tell Me Who I Am | Ed Perkins | United Kingdom |
| Those Who Remained | Barnabás Tóth | Hungary |
| The Two Popes | Fernando Meirelles | United Kingdom |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Uncut Gems | Josh and Benny Safdie | United States |
| Varda by Agnès | Agnès Varda | France |
| Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines |
| Waves | Trey Edward Shults | United States |
| The Wind | Victor Sjöström | United States |
| Women Make Film | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom |

### Guest Director's Selections

The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Pico Iyer.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Late Autumn | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| The Makioka Sisters | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| Mr. and Mrs. Iyer | Aparna Sen | India |
| Under the Sun | Vitaly Mansky | Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, Latvia, North Korea |
| When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | Mikio Naruse | Japan |

### Filmmakers of Tomorrow
#### Student Prints

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) |
| Alien | Jegwang Yeon | Korea National University of Arts |
| Boléro | Sarah Gross | University of Southern California |
| Mizaru | Sudarshan Suresh | Columbia University |
| No Body | Haemin Ko | University of the Arts London |
| Night Swim | Victoria Rivera | Columbia University |
| Soukoon | Farah Shaer | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Under Darkness | Caroline Friend | University of Southern California |

#### Calling Cards

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Chubby | Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | Canada |
| The Distance Between Us and the Sky | Vasilis Kekatos | Greece, France |
| Laukais | Kamile Milašiūtė | Lithuania |
| Manicure | Arman Fayyaz | Iran |
| Olla | Ariane Labed | France |
| Rain | Piotr Milczarek | Poland |

#### Great Expectations

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Drive | Pedro Casavecchia | Argentina, France |
| Feathers | A.V. Rockwell | United States |
| House of Glass | Filipe Martins | Portugal |
| Riviera | Jonas Schloesing | France |
| A Treatise on the Human Animal No. 38: Heartache | Jacob Møller | Denmark |

### Backlot

The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| 63 Up | Michael Apted | United Kingdom |
| Billie | James Erskine | United Kingdom |
| Chulas Fronteras | Les Blank | United States |
| The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash | Thom Zimny | United States |
| Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein | United States |
| Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Werner Herzog | United States |
| Soros | Jesse Dylan | United States |
| Uncle Yanco Black Panthers | Agnès Varda | France, United States |

### Festivities

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Amazing Grace | Alan Elliott | United States |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| The Wanderers | Philip Kaufman | United States |

## Silver Medallion

* Renée Zellweger
* Adam Driver
* Philip Kaufman

## Special Medallion

* Dolby Laboratories