# 42nd Telluride Film Festival

The 42nd Telluride Film Festival took place on September 4–7, 2015, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
Writer Rachel Kushner was appointed as the year's guest director. Telluride honored Rooney Mara, Danny Boyle, and Adam Curtis as the awardees of the Silver Medallion. Participant Media received the Special Medallion award. The festival line-up was announced on September 3, 2015.

## Official selections
### Main program

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| 45 Years | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom |
| Amazing Grace | Alan Elliott | United States |
| Anomalisa | Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson | United States |
| Beasts of No Nation | Cary Joji Fukunaga | United States |
| Bitter Lake | Adam Curtis | United Kingdom |
| Black Mass | Scott Cooper | United States |
| Carol | Todd Haynes | United States |
| He Named Me Malala | Davis Guggenheim | United States |
| Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | United States |
| Hitchcock/Truffaut | Kent Jones | United States |
| Ixcanul | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala |
| Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli | France |
| Mom and Me | Ken Wardrop | Ireland |
| Only the Dead See the End of the War | Michael Ware, Bill Guttentag | United States, Australia |
| Rams | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland |
| Room | Lenny Abrahamson | Ireland, Canada |
| Siti | Eddie Cahyono | Indonesia |
| Son of Saul | László Nemes | Hungary |
| Spotlight | Tom McCarthy | United States |
| Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle | United States |
| Suffragette | Sarah Gavron | United Kingdom |
| Taj Mahal | Nicolas Saada | France, India |
| Taxi | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
| Tikkun | Avishai Sivan | Israel |
| Time to Choose | Charles Ferguson | United States |
| Viva | Paddy Breathnach | Ireland |
| Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Evgeny Afineevsky | Russia, Ukraine |

### Guest Director's Selections

The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Rachel Kushner.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Cocksucker Blues | Robert Frank | United States |
| Partie de campagne | Jean Renoir | France |
| The Mattei Affair | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
| The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | France |
| My Little Loves | Jean Eustache | France |
| Uncle Yanco | Agnès Varda | France |
| Wake in Fright | Ted Kotcheff | Australia |

### 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) |
| El adiós | Clara Roquet | Columbia University |
| Day One | Henry Hughes | American Film Institute |
| The Mink Catcher | Samantha Buck | Columbia University |
| My Aleppo | Melissa Langer | Stanford University |
| Patriot | Eva Riley | National Film and Television School |
| Pidge | Renee Zhan | Harvard University |
| Two Sisters | Keola Racela | Columbia University |

#### Calling Cards

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| The Beast | Daina O. Pusić | Croatia |
| Chaud Lapin | Alexis Magaud, Soline Béjuy, Maël Berreur, Géraldine Gaston, Flora Andrivon | France |
| Coach | Ben Adler | France |
| The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul | Kitty Green | Australia |
| The Lights | Juan Renau, Manuel Abramovich | Argentina |
| Manoman | Simon Cartright | United Kingdom |
| Over | Jörn Threlfall | United Kingdom |
| Share | Pippa Bianco | United States |
| Teeth | Daniel Gray, Tom Brown | United Kingdom |

#### Great Expectations

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Everything Will Be Okay | Patrick Vollrath | Germany, Austria |
| Hot Nasty Teen | Jens Assur | Sweden |
| Ramona | Andrei Cretulescu | Romania |

### Backlot

The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| The Century of the Self | Adam Curtis | United Kingdom |
| Cinema: A Public Affair | Tatiana Brandrup | Russia |
| In the Shadow of the Great Oaks | Georges Mourier | France |
| Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Stig Björkman | Sweden |
| Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict | Lisa Immordino Vreeland | United States |
| Sembene! | Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman | United States, Senegal |
| Tyrus | Pamela Tom | United States |