The Telluride Film Festival has announced this morning the lineup for its 48th edition, that will take place in person after the cancelation of last year’s event due to the pandemic. This year’s lineup will include three films by two Latin American director and one U.S. Latinx filmmaker: Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, Eryk Rocha’s Edna and Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard.
In Spencer, Chilean director Larráin reimagines the life of Princess Diana and what might happened during some fateful days when her marriage to Prince Charles had grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different.
Edna, the documentary by Brazilian director Rocha follows Edna, who lives on the edge of Transbrasiliana highway in the Brazilian Amazon, and is a witness of a land in ruins built upon massacres. Raised only by her mother, she experiences in her body and of her descendants, the marks of a "war that never ends" - a war for land. Through her reports and writings, the movie builds a hybrid narrative that moves between reality and imaginary. Everything's woven from Edna's memory and her diary entitled "Story of My Life". A life of guerillas, disappearances and deforestation, but also women's strength, rivers and woods that insist on surviving. A poet transformed in eyes that can see but cannot talk. She dreams of leaving to a place that we don't know where.
King Richard, the major studio filmmaking debut by U.S. Afro-Latinx director Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) is a biopic drama about tennis coach and father of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, Richard Williams, starring Will Smith in the titular role.
Additionally, Telluride also announced the screening of Matt Dillon’s documentary El Gran Fellove, that chronicles the musical career of Cuban scat singer and showman Francisco Fellove and the recording of his last album.
The 48th edition of the Telluride Film Festival will take place September 2-6, 2021.
