# 47th Telluride Film Festival

The 47th Telluride Film Festival was scheduled to take place on September 4–7, 2020. In May 2020, it was announced that the festival would kick off a day earlier on September 3 for safety purposes. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Colorado, the festival announced its cancellation on July 14, 2020. Telluride was due to honor the Silver Medallion to Chloé Zhao, Anthony Hopkins, and Kate Winslet.
Telluride announced the year's initial line-up on August 3, 2020. Ammonite and Concrete Cowboy were set to world premiere at the festival, but the two films were screened for the first time at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival instead. Nomadland was also set to premiere at the festival, but it premiered at the 2020 Venice Film Festival. Telluride held a drive-in screening of the film at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.

## Official selections

These films were set to screen at the festival before its cancellation.

### Main programme

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| After Love | Aleem Khan | United Kingdom |
| All In: The Fight for Democracy | Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés | United States |
| The Alpinist | Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen | United States |
| Ammonite | Francis Lee | United Kingdom |
| Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer | Andrei Tarkovsky | Italy, Russian Federation, Sweden |
| Apples | Christos Nikou | Greece, Poland, Slovenia |
| The Automat | Lisa Hurwitz | United States |
| Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart | Frank Marshall | United States |
| Charlatan | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia |
| Concrete Cowboy | Ricky Staub | United States |
| Dear Mr. Brody | Keith Maitland | United States |
| The Duke | Roger Michell | United Kingdom |
| The Father | Florian Zeller | United Kingdom, France |
| Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer | United Kingdom, United States |
| Ibrahim | Samir Guesmi | France |
| Mainstream | Gia Coppola | United States |
| Mandibles | Quentin Dupieux | France |
| MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | United States |
| The Most Beautiful Boy in the World | Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri | Sweden |
| Never Gonna Snow Again | Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert | Poland, Germany |
| Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, France, Germany |
| Pray Away | Kristine Stolakis | United States |
| There Is No Evil | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany, Iran |
| To the Moon | Tadhg O'Sullivan | Ireland |
| Torn | Max Lowe | United States |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | Italy, United States, Greece |
| Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation | Lisa Immordino Vreeland | United States |
| The Way I See It | Dawn Porter | United States |

### Long Shorts

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| The Letter Room | Elvira Lind | United States |
| Linda and the Mockingbirds | James Keach | United States |
| Paws in Prison | Bill Guttentag | United States |
| The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima | Otto Bell | Japan, United States |
| When We Were Bullies | Jay Rosenblatt | United States |

### 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) |
| Border | Shu Zhu, Ino Yang Popper | American Film Institute |
| Forever | Mitch McGlocklin | University of South Carolina |
| Metamorphosis | Xi Wang | University of South Carolina |
| Peeps | Sophie Somerville | Victorian College of the Arts |
| Silento | Esteban García Vernaza | Columbia University |
| Something to Believe In | Fany de la Chica | Columbia University |
| Under the Heavens | Gustavo Milan | New York University |
| Viktor on the Moon | Christian Arhoff | National Film School of Denmark |

### Great Expectations

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Da Yie | Anthony Nti | Belgium, Ghana |
| Gramercy | Jamil McGinnis, Pat Heywood | United States |
| Unforgivable | Marlén Viñayo | El Salvador |

### Calling Cards

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Benjamin, Benny, Ben | Paul Shkordoff | Canada |
| Bittu | Karishma Dev Dube | India, United States |
| Community Gardens | Vytautas Katkus | Lithuania |
| David | Zachary Woods | United States |
| I, Julia | Arvin Kananian | Sweden |
| Leave of Absence | Anton Sazonov | Russian Federation |
| The Lost Astronaut | Ben Proudfoot | United States |

## Silver Medallion

* Chloé Zhao
* Anthony Hopkins
* Kate Winslet