The 53rd annual Telluride Film Festival runs from September 4th-7th in Telluride, Colorado. Every year, the RogerEbert.com team returns to the fest to cover some of the festival’s most notable releases, as well as some under-the-radar curiosities we feel deserve to be discussed.
Below is our compiled writing from the fest, courtesy of Associate Editor Robert Daniels and contributors Cortlyn Kelly and Tomris Laffly. Keep checking this space as our coverage continues.
Reviews
You Can See Everything (Tomris Laffly)
Gentle Monster (Cortlyn Kelly)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Robert Daniels)
Tenzing (CK)
Fatherland (RD)
Dispatches
Telluride 2026: Illusion of an Everlasting Summer, Burgundy, Rehearsals for a Revolution (CK)
Telluride 2026: Alpha Gang, The Liberation, The Idiots (RD)
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