Telluride 2025 lineup announced

The Telluride Film Festival reveals a star studded slate with world premieres from Springsteen and Zhao, signaling a busy awards season.

Telluride 2025 Lineup Features Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere

Telluride’s 52nd edition opens with a calendar packed with premieres and North American debuts. The centerpiece is Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere, a Scott Cooper documentary about Bruce Springsteen that will world premiere on Friday night with the Boss in attendance. Other world premieres include Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Netflix’s Ballad of a Small Player, featuring Colin Farrell in a story set around Macau’s gambling scene. Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly is also in the lineup, along with a broad mix of titles from acclaimed directors and a raft of international co productions. The festival will host a range of high profile figures, including Renate Reinsve and Ethan Hawke, with Baumbach receiving the Silver Medallion for directing achievements.

The program leans into both dramatic storytelling and documentary prestige, including titles that have played at Venice and Cannes and a number of projects focused on real life figures. In addition to feature films, the main program includes a slate of documentaries such as Ask E Jean and a series of profiles that highlight cinema history and the art of making films. The lineup underscores Telluride’s role as a key launch pad for the fall festival circuit and the broader awards race.

Telluride is sending a clear message about the direction of prestige cinema this year. The emphasis on world premieres from marquee names coexists with intimate documentaries that seek to shape conversations beyond the screen. The festival appears to be balancing crowd pleasing star power with thoughtful, often political, cinema, a mix that could influence how studios and streaming platforms schedule releases this fall.

The presence of a political documentary about a high profile public case adds a layer of risk and ambition. Festivals have become battlegrounds for public dialogue as much as for film craft, and Telluride seems prepared to ride that tension while keeping its eye on the OscarsLater this season will show how audiences and critics respond to a slate that blends Nebraskan rock myth making with Shakespearean and biographical pieces.

Highlights

As lights rise in Telluride, the fall festival season begins to take shape.