Telluride Film Festival

Each Labor Day weekend, the tiny mountain village of Telluride, Colorado triples in size. Swells of passionate film enthusiasts flood the town for four days of total cinematic immersion, embarking on a viewing odyssey, blissfully spending entire days in flickering dark rooms. With only an appreciation of celluloid to guide them, these devotees flock to the show, year after year. Why? Blind faith. They don’t reveal the program until everyone lands in town. Yet the Telluride family trusts that a unique experience will unfold.

The Telluride Film Festival is not just a picture show. It is Tributes to luminaries who've propelled the medium forward; it is candid discussions with a film’s creator or the historian who champions it; it is discovering that the person in line behind you made the film you just enjoyed; it is engaging in lively debate with every manner of film lover in the summer sun of a Colorado afternoon, always minutes away from a new exhibition. 

The Telluride Film Festival take great pains to remain not a competition, but a celebration of the best in film—past, present and future—from all around the world. This is one weekend immersed in an unabashed carnival of film: viewing, breathing, eating, and talking cinema. This is The SHOW.

2026 Lineup:

The 53rd Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films and long-formworks to play in its main program, the SHOW:

• A LONG WINTER (d. Andrew Haigh, U.K., 2026)
• ACT 3 (d. Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor, Ireland/U.K., 2026)
• ALPHA GANG (d. David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, U.S., 2026)
• AVEDON (d. Ron Howard, U.S., 2026)
• BUCKING FASTARD (d. Werner Herzog, Ireland/U.S., 2026)
• BURGUNDY (d. Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, France, 2026)
• CARL SAGAN: WE ARE MADE OF STAR STUFF (d. Nanette Burstein, U.S., 2026)
• CLUB KID (d. Jordan Firstman, U.S., 2026)
• THE DEBUT (d. Jesse Eisenberg, U.S., 2026)
• THE DISCIPLE (d. Joanna Natasegara, U.K./U.S./Morocco, 2026)
• ELSINORE (d. Simon Stone, U.K., 2026)
• EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE (d. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, U.S./China/Nepal, 2026)
• FATHERLAND (d. Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland/France/Germany/Italy, 2026)
• FJORD (d. Cristian Mungiu, Romania/France/Norway/Sweden/Denmark, 2026)
• GENTLE MONSTER (d. Marie Kreutzer, Austria/Germany/France, 2026)
• THE IDIOT(S) (d. Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert, Poland/Germany, 2026)
• INK (d. Danny Boyle, U.K./U.S./France, 2026)
• LA BOLA NEGRA (d. Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo, Spain/France, 2026)
• THE LIBERATION (d. Guy Nattiv, U.S., 2026)
• MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE (d. Sofia Coppola, Italy/U.S., 2026)
• THE MAN I LOVE (d. Ira Sachs, U.S., 2026)
• MINOTAUR (d. Andrey Zvyagintsev, France/Germany/Latvia, 2026)
• MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II – EXILE (d. Julia Loktev, U.S., 2026)
• ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM (d. David Greaves, Liani Greaves, U.S., 2026)
• THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK (d. Noah Segan, U.S., 2026)
• PETE TOWNSHEND: BEHIND BLUE EYES (d. Frank Marshall, Nigel Sinclair, U.S./U.K., 2026)
• REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION (d. Pegah Ahangarani, Czech Republic/Spain, 2026)
• ROSE (d. Markus Schleinzer, Austria/Germany, 2026)
• THE ROW (d. Bryan Fogel, U.S./Australia/Ireland, 2026)
• THE STORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (d. Mark Cousins, Scotland/U.K., 2026)
• SUMO: SPIRIT WEIGHS NOTHING (d. Erik Shirai, U.S./Japan/U.K./Denmark, 2026)
• TENDER LOVING CARE (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2026)
• TENZING (d. Jennifer Peedom, U.S./Australia, 2026)
• THE UNKNOWN (d. Arthur Harari, France/Italy, 2026)
• WILD HORSE NINE (d. Martin McDonagh, Chile/U.S., 2026)

Also playing in the main program are two newly restored features: BEGOTTEN (d. E. Elias Merhige, U.S., 1989/2026)  and BEAU GESTE (d. Herbert Brenon, U.S., 1926), with live musical accompaniment by Donald Sosin; short films: A SONG FOR THE SNOW LION (d. Pawo Choyning Dorji, Bhutan/U.S., 2026), A DANCE THROUGH TIME (d. Sarah Gavron, U.K., 2026), MAYBE TOMORROW (d. Wafa Mustafa, Waad Al-Kateab, U.K., 2026), SAWYER AVENUE, SUNDAY AFTERNOON (d. Bill Morrison, U.S., 2026), LOVE, RENDERED (d. Liz Garbus, U.S., 2026), THE REVOLUTION AGAINST DEATH (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark/Sweden, 2026), and Ben Proudfoot’s THE BUFFALO MIRACLE (U.S., 2026) and WITT V. AIR FORCE (U.S., 2026).