The highly popular Telluride International Film Festival (August 30 - September 2) is not on social networks, and only unveils its program the day before it opens. In other words, it's unlike any other festival, and that's no doubt why so many of today's film personalities flock to the small Colorado town, which has become a temple to global cinephilia for a weekend. This year, French cinema was in the spotlight, with two honorary awards paying tribute to Jacques Audiard and Films du Losange.
Six French films were presented this year in the main selection, The Show, which features the best of world cinema.
- Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
- Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie
- All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof (minority-French co-production)
- Bird by Andrea Arnold (minority-French co-production)
- Santosh by Sandhya Suri (minority-French co-production)
The Beauty and The Beast by Jean Cocteau was shown in Special Presentations, accompanying the American documentary Jean Cocteau, by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, devoted to the artist.
The presence of Jacques Audiard (accompanied by Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Zoé Saldaña, and Adriana Paz, the four actresses of Emilia Pérez) was the occasion for the filmmaker to receive the 2024 Silver Medallion Award for lifetime achievement.
The Special Medallion Award was presented to the legendary French production company Les Films du Losange, in the presence of its president Charles Gillibert, who will accompany Alain Guiraudie for the presentation of Misericordia - a film also presented at the TIFF and New York Film Festival and soon to be distributed by Sideshow in the USA.
This is the first time a French company has been honored in this way in Telluride. Production, international sales, distribution: for over 60 years, Les Films du Losange, founded by Barbet Schroeder and Éric Rohmer and still independent, has accompanied the greatest French and European auteurs, particularly in North America. Losange has collaborated with Sony Pictures Classics on the films of Michael Haneke (Oscar for Best International Feature Film Love), or with Criterion on the catalog of Éric Rohmer, Jean Eustache, and this year with MUBI for the release of Mati Diop's Dahomey.
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