# 45th Telluride Film Festival

The 45th Telluride Film Festival took place from August 31 to September 3, 2018 in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem was selected as the guest director of the event. As the guest director, Lethem served as a key collaborator in the festival programming decisions. Telluride honored Alfonso Cuarón, Emma Stone, and Rithy Panh as the Silver Medallion winners.

## Official selections
### Main programme

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production countrie(s) |
| Angels Are Made of Light | Angels Are Made of Light | James Longley | 2018 | United States, Denmark, Norway |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | Pamela B. Green | 2018 | United States |
| The Biggest Little Farm | The Biggest Little Farm | John Chester | 2018 | United States |
| Birds of Passage | Pájaros de verano | Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego | 2018 | Colombia-Denmark-Mexico |
| Border | Gräns | Ali Abbasi | 2018 | Sweden |
| Boy Erased | Boy Erased | Joel Edgerton | 2018 | United States |
| Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Marielle Heller | 2018 | United States |
| Christian Wahnschaffe, Parts I & II | Christian Wahnschaffe, Parts I & II | Urban Gad | 1920–1921 | Germany |
| Cœur fidèle | Cœur fidèle | Jean Epstein | 1923 | France |
| Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | 2018 | Poland, France, United Kingdom |
| Destroyer | Destroyer | Karyn Kusama | 2018 | United States |
| Dogman | Dogman | Matteo Garrone | 2018 | Italy, France |
| Dovlatov | Dovlatov | Aleksei German | 2018 | Russia, Poland, Serbia |
| Eldorado | Eldorado | Markus Imhoof | 2018 | Germany, Switzerland |
| The Favourite | The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2018 | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States |
| Fièvre | Fièvre | Louis Delluc | 1921 | France |
| First Man | First Man | Damien Chazelle | 2018 | United States |
| Fistful of Dirt | Fistful of Dirt | Sebastián Silva | 2018 | United States |
| Free Solo | Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | 2018 | United States |
| The Front Runner | The Front Runner | Jason Reitman | 2018 | United States |
| Ghost Fleet | Ghost Fleet | Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron | 2018 | United States |
| Girl | Girl | Lukas Dhont | 2018 | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Graves Without a Name | Les tombeaux sans noms | Rithy Panh | 2018 | France, Cambodia |
| The Great Buster | The Great Buster | Peter Bogdanovich | 2018 | United States |
| Meeting Gorbachev | Meeting Gorbachev | Werner Herzog, André Singer | 2018 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany |
| Non-Fiction | Doubles vies | Olivier Assayas | 2018 | France |
| The Old Man & the Gun | The Old Man & the Gun | David Lowery | 2018 | United States |
| The Other Side of the Wind | The Other Side of the Wind | Orson Welles | 1976/2018 | United States |
| Peterloo | Peterloo | Mike Leigh | 2018 | United Kingdom |
| Reversing Roe | Reversing Roe | Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg | 2018 | United States |
| Roma | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 | Mexico, United States |
| Shoplifters | 万引き家族 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | 2018 | Japan |
| They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Morgan Neville | 2018 | United States |
| Trial by Fire | Trial by Fire | Ed Zwick | 2018 | United States |
| Watergate – Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President | Watergate – Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President | Charles Ferguson | 2018 | United States |
| Whirlpool of Desire | Remous | Edmond T. Gréville | 1934 | France |
| White Boy Rick | White Boy Rick | Yann Demange | 2018 | United States |
| The White Crow | The White Crow | Ralph Fiennes | 2018 | United Kingdom |

### Guest Director's Selections

The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Jonathan Lethem.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production countrie(s) |
| Angel | Angel | Ernst Lubitsch | 1937 | United States |
| Bigger Than Life | Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | 1956 | United States |
| Never Cry Wolf | Never Cry Wolf | Carroll Ballard | 1983 | United States |
| The Tarnished Angels | The Tarnished Angels | Douglas Sirk | 1957 | United States |
| To Be or Not to Be | To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 | United States |
| The White Meadows | کشتزارهای سپید | Mohammad Rasoulof | 2009 | Iran |

### Backlot

The films were selected and presented by Jeffrey Keil and Danielle Pinet. The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production countrie(s) |
| The Eyes of Orson Welles | The Eyes of Orson Welles | Mark Cousins | 2018 | United Kingdom |
| A Final Cut for Orson | A Final Cut for Orson | Ryan Suffern | 2018 | United States |
| The Ghost of Peter Sellers | The Ghost of Peter Sellers | Peter Medak | 2018 | United Kingdom, Cyprus |
| Hal | Hal | Amy Scott | 2018 | United States |
| Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America | Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America | Brigitte Berman | 2018 | Canada |
| It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story | It Must Schwing - Die Blue Note Story | Eric Friedler | 2018 | Germany |
| What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Rob Garver | 2018 | United States |

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

The selection was curated and introduced by Gregory Nava. It selected the best student-produced work around the world.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production universitie(s) |
| Lalo's House | Lalo's House | Kelley Kali | 2018 | University of Southern California |
| My Nephew Emmett | My Nephew Emmett | Kevin Wilson Jr. | 2017 | New York University |
| Tracing Addai | Tracing Addai | Esther Neimeier | 2018 | Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg |
| The Victory of Charity | Der Sieg der Barmherzigkeit | Albert Meisl | 2017 | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
| A Year | A Year | Jisun Jamie Kim | 2018 | New York University |

#### Calling Cards

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production countrie(s) |
| The Ambassador's Wife | The Ambassador's Wife | Theresa Dahlberg | 2017 | Sweden |
| Caroline | Caroline | Logan George, Celine Held | 2018 | United States |
| Fauve | Fauve | Jérémy Comte | 2018 | Canada |
| The Field | The Field | Sandhya Suri | 2018 | France, United Kingdom, India |
| Mother Of | Mother Of | Gan de Lange | 2018 | Israel |
| Third Kind | Third Kind | Yorgos Zois | 2018 | Greece, Croatia |

#### Great Expectations

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins and presented by Nick O'Neill.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production countrie(s) |
| Braguino | Braguino | Clément Cogitore | 2017 | France, Finland |
| Dark Chamber | Dark Chamber | Ottó Bánovits | 2018 | Sweden |
| This Magnificent Cake! | Ce magnifique gâteau ! | Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels | 2018 | Belgium, France, Netherlands |

#### Introducing Saba Riazi

The section was intended to highlight the work by Iranian writer and director, Saba Riazi.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Year | Production countrie(s) |
| Ice Cream | Ice Cream | Saba Riazi | 2018 | United States, Iran |
| The Wind is Blowing on My Street | The Wind is Blowing on My Street | Saba Riazi | 2010 | Iran, United States |

## Silver Medallion

* Alfonso Cuarón
* Emma Stone
* Rithy Panh

## Special Medallion

* Dieter Kosslick