44th Telluride Film Festival
# 44th Telluride Film Festival

The 44th Telluride Film Festival was held on September 1–4, 2017, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.

Director Joshua Oppenheimer was appointed as the guest director of the event. Telluride honored Edward Lachman and Christian Bale as the Silver Medallion winners. The Special Medallion was awarded to Katriel Schory of Israeli Film Fund.

## Official selections

### Main program

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| - | - | - |
| Arthur Miller: Writer | Rebecca Miller | United States |
| The Baker's Wife | Marcel Pagnol | France |
| Battle of the Sexes | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | United States |
| The Cotton Club Encore | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Darkest Hour | Joe Wright | United Kingdom |
| Downsizing | Alexander Payne | United States |
| Eating Animals | Christopher Dillon Quinn | United States |
| Faces Places | Agnès Varda, JR | France |
| A Fantastic Woman | Sebastián Lelio | Chile, United States, Germany, Spain |
| Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Paul McGuigan | United Kingdom |
| First Reformed | Paul Schrader | United States |
| First They Killed My Father | Angelina Jolie | United States, Cambodia |
| Foxtrot | Samuel Maoz | Israel |
| Heroin(e) | Elaine McMillion Sheldon | United States |
| Hostages | Rezo Gigineishvili | Georgia, Russia, Poland |
| Hostiles | Scott Cooper | United States |
| Human Flow | Ai Weiwei | United States, Germany |
| The Insult | Ziad Doueiri | France, Lebanon |
| Kean, or Disorder and Genius | Aleksandr Volkoff | France |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | United States |
| Land of the Free | Camilla Magid | Denmark, Finland |
| Lean on Pete | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom, United States |
| Long Shot | Jacob LaMendola | United States |
| Love, Cecil | Lisa Immordino Vreeland | United States |
| Loveless | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia, France, Belgium, Germany |
| Loving Vincent | Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman | United Kingdom, Poland |
| A Man of Integrity | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran |
| The Other Side of Hope | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| The Rider | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro | United States |
| Such Is Life | Carl Junghans | Czechoslovakia |
| Tesnota | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
| The Venerable W. | Barbet Schroeder | France, Switzerland |
| The Vietnam War | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | United States |
| Wonderstruck | Todd Haynes | United States |
| Wormwood | Errol Morris | United States |

### Guest Director's Selections

The films were selected and presented by the year's guest director, Joshua Oppenheimer.

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| - | - | - |
| Even Dwarfs Started Small | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
| Hotel of the Stars | Jon Bang Carlsen | Denmark |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | United States |
| Salaam Cinema | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| Titicut Follies | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France |

### Backlot

The selection included behind-the-scene movies and portraits of artists, musicians, and filmmakers.

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| - | - | - |
| Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum | Sophie Bassaler | France |
| Edge of Alchemy | Stacey Steers | United States |
| Filmworker | Tony Zierra | United States |
| Hitler's Hollywood | Rüdiger Suchsland | Germany |
| Jamaica Man | Michael Weatherly | United States |
| Portrait of Valeska Gert | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany |
| Slim Gaillard's Civilisation | Anthony Wall | United Kingdom |
| That Summer | Göran Hugo Olsson | Sweden, United States, Denmark |

### 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) |
| - | - | - |
| Homeland | Sam Peeters | Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound |
| It's Just a Gun | Brian Robau | Chapman University |
| Leaving Syria: Long Live the Youth | Yara Atz | Geneva University of Art and Design |
| Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | Sunday Emerson Gullifer | Victorian College of the Arts |
| Who's Who in Mycology | Marie Dvorakova | New York University |

**Calling Cards**

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| - | - | - |
| Anderson | Rodrigo Meireles | Brazil |
| The Ceiling | Teppo Airaksinen | Finland |
| Debris | Julio O. Ramos | Peru |
| Durango | Matt Sukkar | United States |
| Fluffy | Lee Filipovski | Serbia, Canada |
| Little Hands | Rémi Allier | Belgium |

**Great Expectations**

The selection was curated by Barry Jenkins.

| Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| - | - | - |
| The Best Fireworks Ever | Aleksandra Terpińska | Poland |
| Delphi | Søren Peter Langkjær Bojsen | Denmark |
| Le film de l'ete | Emmanuel Marre | France, Belgium |
| A Gentle Night | Yang Qiu | China |
| Skywards | Eva Weber | United Kingdom |

## Silver Medallion

* Edward Lachman
* Christian Bale

## Special Medallion

* Katriel Schory
