title: 41st Telluride Film Festival
text: # 41st Telluride Film Festival
  
  The 41st Telluride Film Festival took place on August 29–September 1, 2014, in Telluride, Colorado, United States.
  
  Artists Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan were appointed as the year's guest directors. Telluride honored director Volker Schlöndorff, actress Hilary Swank and feature Apocalypse Now as the awardees of the Silver Medallion. Special Medallion was awarded to film archive Cineteca di Bologna and its head Gian Luca Farinelli. The festival line-up was announced on August 28, 2014.
  
  ## Official selections
  
  ### Main program
  
  | Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | The 50 Year Argument | Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi | United Kingdom, United States |
  | '71 | Yann Demange | United Kingdom |
  | 99 Homes | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
  | Birdman | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
  | Dancing Arabs | Eran Riklis | Israel, Germany, France |
  | The Decent One | Vanessa Lapa | Australia, Israel, Germany |
  | Diplomacy | Volker Schlöndorff | France, Germany |
  | Foxcatcher | Bennett Miller | United States |
  | The Gate | Régis Wargnier | France, Belgium, Cambodia |
  | The Homesman | Tommy Lee Jones | United States |
  | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | United Kingdom, United States |
  | Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
  | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Indonesia, Norway, Finland, United States |
  | Madame Bovary | Sophie Barthes | United Kingdom, Belgium |
  | Merchants of Doubt | Robert Kenner | United States |
  | Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
  | Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | United States |
  | The Price of Fame | Xavier Beauvois | France |
  | Red Army | Gabe Polsky | United States, Russia |
  | Rosewater | Jon Stewart | United States |
  | The Salt of the Earth | Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | Brazil, Italy, France |
  | Tales of the Grim Sleeper | Nick Broomfield | United Kingdom, United States |
  | Two Days, One Night | Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Belgium, Italy, France |
  | Wild | Jean-Marc Vallée | United States |
  | Wild Tales | Damián Szifron | Argentina, Spain |
  
  ### Guest Directors' Selections
  
  The films were screened in archival 35 mm prints and selected by the year's guest directors Guy Maddin and Kim Morgan.
  
  | Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | California Split | Robert Altman | United States |
  | Il Grido | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
  | M | Joseph Losey | United States |
  | Man's Castle | Frank Borzage | United States |
  | The Road to Glory | Howard Hawks | United States |
  | Wicked Woman | Russell Rouse | United States |
  
  ### 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 countrie(s)/universitie(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | First Prize | Kevin McMullin | United States (Columbia University) |
  | Guests | Mark Columbus | United States (University of California, Los Angeles) |
  | No Man's Land | David Adler | Denmark (National Film School of Denmark) |
  | Nocebo | Lennart Ruff | Germany (Munich Film School) |
  | The Pride of Strathmoor | Einar Baltin | United States (University of Southern California) |
  | Stone Cars | Reinaldo Marcus Green | United States, South Africa (New York University) |
  
  **Calling Cards**
  
  The selection was curated by Jonathan Marlow. It selected new works from promising filmmakers.
  
  | Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Cut | Matthias Müller, Christoph Girardet | Germany |
  | Discussion Questions | Jonn Herschend | United States |
  | En plein air | Jerzy Rose | United States |
  | Ja vi esker | Hallvar Witzø | Norway |
  | The Sand Storm | Jason Wishnow | China, United States |
  | Symphony No. 42 | Réka Bucsi | Hungary |
  | Theoretical Architectures | Josh Gibson | United States |
  | Washingtonia | Konstantina Kotzamani | Greece |
  
  **Great Expectations**
  
  The selection was curated by Jonathan Marlow.
  
  | Title | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Ballkoni | Lendita Zeqiraj | Kosovo |
  | Dive | Matthew J. Saville | New Zealand |
  | La Isla | Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, Katarzyna Klimkiewicz | Chile, Poland |
  | L'assenza | Jonathan Romney | United Kingdom |
  