# 43rd Telluride Film Festival

The 43rd Telluride Film Festival took place on September 2–5, 2016, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Director Volker Schlöndorff was appointed as the year's guest director. Telluride honored Casey Affleck, Amy Adams, and Pablo Larraín as the Silver Medallion awardees. The festival line-up was announced on September 1, 2016.

## Official selections
### Main program

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Amazing Grace | Alan Elliott | United States |
| Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | United States |
| The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography | Errol Morris | United States |
| Bleed for This | Ben Younger | United States |
| California Typewriter | Doug Nichol | United States |
| Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary | John Scheinfeld | United States |
| The End of Eden | Angus Macqueen | United Kingdom |
| Finding Oscar | Ryan Suffern | United States |
| Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France |
| Frantz | François Ozon | France |
| Gentleman Rissient | Benoît Jacquot, Pascal Merigeau, Guy Seligmann | France |
| Graduation | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France, Belgium |
| Into the Inferno | Werner Herzog | United Kingdom, Austria |
| The Ivory Game | Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani | Austria, United States |
| La La Land | Damien Chazelle | United States |
| Lost in Paris | Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon | France, Belgium |
| Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | United States |
| Maudie | Aisling Walsh | Canada, Ireland |
| Men: A Love Story | Mimi Chakarova | United States |
| Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | United States |
| My Journey Through French Cinema | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| Neruda | Pablo Larraín | Chile, Argentina, France, Spain |
| Norman | Joseph Cedar | United States, Israel |
| The Pagnol Trilogy Marius Fanny César | Alexander Korda Marc Allégret Marcel Pagnol | France |
| Sully | Clint Eastwood | United States |
| Things to Come | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany |
| Through the Wall | Rama Burshtein | United States, Israel |
| Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany, Austria |
| Una | Benedict Andrews | United Kingdom |
| Variety | E. A. Dupont | Germany |
| Wakefield | Robin Swicord | United States |

### Guest Director's Selections

The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Volker Schlöndorff.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| Les Enfants terribles | Jean-Pierre Melville | France |
| The Fire Within | Louis Malle | France |
| I Was Nineteen | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| It Was the Month of May | Marlen Khutsiev | USSR |
| Spies | Fritz Lang | Germany |

### 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) |
| And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye | Francisca Alegría | Columbia University |
| Edmond | Nina Gantz | National Film and Television School |
| Un état d'urgence (State of Emergency) | Tarek Roehlinger | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg |
| Icebox | Daniel Sawka | American Film Institute |
| Nocturne in Black | Jimmy Keyrouz | Columbia University |
| Tear of the Peony | Yuxi Li | Columbia University |

#### Calling Cards

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| 4.1 Miles | Daphne Matziaraki | United States, Greece |
| Asunder | Nathalie Álvarez Mesén | Sweden |
| A Coat Made Dark | Jack O'Shea | Ireland |
| Fais le mort | William Laboury | France |
| The Last Leatherman of the Vale of Cashmere | Greg Loser | United States |
| Little Bullets | Alphan Eşeli | Turkey |
| Rhonna and Donna | Daina Oniunas-Pusić | United Kingdom |

#### Great Expectations

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Dirt | Darius Clark Monroe | United States |
| The Gambler | Karim Lakzadeh | Iran |
| Le Gouffre | Vincent Le Port | France |

### Frontlot/Backlot

The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Beauties of the Night | María José Cuevas | Mexico |
| Bernadette Lafont and God Created the Free Woman | Esther Hoffenberg | France |
| Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds | Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens | United States |
| Cool Cats | Janus Køster-Rasmussen | Denmark |
| The Family Whistle | Michele Salfi Russo | United States, Italy |
| A Fanatic Heart – Bob Geldof on William Butler Yeats | Gerry Hoban | Ireland |
| Gulag | Angus Macqueen | United Kingdom |
| I Called Him Morgan | Kasper Collin | Sweden, United States |
| Mifune: The Last Samurai | Steven Okazaki | United States |
| Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown | Gregory Monro | France |

## Silver Medallion

* Casey Affleck
* Amy Adams
* Pablo Larraín