Telluride Film Festival lineup includes 'Wild,' 'The Imitation Game'

This year’s edition of the Telluride Film Festival announced its lineup today, revealing that Colorado will play host this weekend to a variety of awards hopefuls. Jean-Marc Vallées’ Wild starring Reese Witherspoon, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, and Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater are among the films that will have their world premiere at the festival. (Those movies will also all screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, which instituted new rules about premieres in an attempt to prevent films from making a Colorado pit stop before heading to Canada.) Films like Birdman and Foxcatcher—which have already premiered to rapturous reviews at the Venice and Cannes film festivals, respectively, and have significant Oscar buzz for their stars—will screen. Last year’s Best Picture winner, 12 Years a Slave, was first seen at Telluride, as was Argo, the previous year’s winner.

The festival, which runs from Aug. 29 through Sept. 1, is also known for adding surprise screenings.

See the rest of the lineup below.

THE 50 YEAR ARGUMENT (d. Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi, U.K.-U.S., 2014)

’71 (d. Yann Demange, U.K., 2014)

99 HOMES (d. Ramin Bahrani, U.S., 2014)

BIRDMAN (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, U.S., 2014)

DANCING ARABS (d. Eran Riklis, Israel-Germany-France, 2014)

THE DECENT ONE (d. Vanessa Lapa, Australia-Israel-Germany, 2014)

DIPLOMACY (d. Volker Schlöndorff, France-Germany, 2014)

FOXCATCHER (d. Bennett Miller, U.S., 2014)

THE GATE (d. Régis Wargnier, France-Belgium-Cambodia, 2014)

THE HOMESMAN (d. Tommy Lee Jones, U.S., 2014)

THE IMITATION GAME (d. Morten Tyldum, U.K.-U.S., 2014)

LEVIATHAN (d. Andrey Zvgagintsev, Russia, 2014)

THE LOOK OF SILENCE (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark-Indonesia-Norway-Finalnd-U.S., 2014)

MADAME BOVARY (d. Sophie Barthes, U.K.-Belgium, 2014)

MERCHANTS OF DOUBT (d. Robert Kenner, U.S., 2014)

MOMMY (d. Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2014)

MR. TURNER (d. Mike Leigh, U.K., 2014)

THE PRICE OF FAME (d. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2014)

RED ARMY (d. Gabe Polsky, U.S.-Russia, 2014)

ROSEWATER (d. Jon Stewart, U.S., 2014)

THE SALT OF THE EARTH (d. Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Brazil-Italy-France, 2014)

TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER (d. Nick Broomfield, U.K.-U.S, 2014)

TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (d. Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium-Italy-France, 2014)

WILD (d. Jean-Marc Valleé, U.S., 2014)

WILD TALES (d. Damián Szifrón, Argentina-Spain, 2014)

The following films will screen at Telluride’s Backlot screening room, which is dedicated to “behind-the-scenes movies and portraits of artists, musicians and filmmakers”:

BERTOLUCCI ON BERTOLUCCI (d. Walter Fasano, Luca Guadagnino, Italy, 2013)

FORBIDDEN FILMS (d. Felix Moeller, Germany, 2014)

HOW TO SMELL A ROSE (d. Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht, U.S.-France, 2014)

I STOP TIME (d. Gunilla Bresky, Sweden-Russia, 2014)

KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (d. Alan Hicks, U.S., 2014)

MAGICIAN (d. Chuck Workman, U.S., 2014)

NIGHT WILL FALL (d. André Singer, U.K.-U.S.-Israel, 2014)

SOCIALISM (d. Peter von Bagh, Finland, 2014)