Telluride Film Festival 2025 Movies: Springsteen, More In Lineup

The Boss is coming to Telluride.

20th Century’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere from director Scott Cooper, starring Jeremy Allen White as the title star, is set to launch its world premiere Friday night at the 52nd annual Telluride Film Festival, which announced its official schedule Thursday.

See the full lineup below.

In addition to Cooper, White, co-star Jeremy Strong and others, Bruce Springsteen himself will be on hand in the Rockies for the premiere of this much awaited film focusing on the making of his landmark album Nebraska.

Other world premieres include Netflix’s Ballad of a Small Player starring Colin Farrell as a man caught up in the gambling mecca of Macau. It is directed by Edward Berger, who was in Telluride last year launching his Oscar-winning Conclave that also landed a Best Picture Oscar nomination.

Nomadland Oscar winner Chloé Zhao will be in Telluride with the world premiere of her latest Hamnet, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in a Shakespeare-inspired love story from Focus Features. The Shakespeare play is popular in Telluride this year as the fest is also featuring the world premiere of Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed in an Indian-themed contemporary take on the classic. Also, Elvira Lind’s documentary King Hamlet follows a New York production of the play starring her husband Oscar Isaac.

Claire Foy will be on hand for her latest H Is For Hawk, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. It is a true story of a woman overcome with grief from the death of her father and deciding to adopt a Goshawk to fill the void. Foy, Lowthorpe and Helen MacDonald, the author of the memoir on which the film is inspired, will be attending. Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall will also be hand for the world premiere of their film Tuner, about a piano tuner who finds he has valuable safecracking skills. It marks Navalny Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Roher’s feature directorial debut.

Coming over directly from Venice for its North American premiere will be Noah Baumbach’s story of a movie star reassessing his life in Jay Kelly. Co-Stars Adam Sandler Emily Mortimer (who also co-wrote the script) and Laura Dern (but not George Clooney who is in Venice reportedly suffering from a bad sinus infection) are among those expected to make the trek to the mountains, as well as Baumbach, who will receive the festival’s Silver Medallion director honor.

Other Telluride honorees will include Renate Reinsve for the Actress Medallion and Ethan Hawke for the Actor Medallion. Hawke’s movie from director Richard Linklater, Blue Moon, in which he plays composer Lorenz Hart, premiered at Berlin and will have its North American premiere here, while the actor will also be debuting Highway 99, his new documentary about country music legend Merle Haggard. Reinsve’s acclaimed performance will be visible in Sentimental Value, this year’s Grand Prix winner at Cannes, one of many films from Cannes making their North American premiere at Telluride. That list includes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident; Secret Agent which won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for Wagner Moura; Linklater’s other film at Telluride, his love letter to the French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague; Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind with Josh O’Connor; Harry Lighton’s sexually charged drama Pillion with Alexander Skarsgärd and Harry Melling; and another gay-themed romance in the The History of Sound starring O’Connor and Mescal from director Oliver Hermanus.

At least one other movie premiering first in Venice will find its way to Telluride as an unannounced “sneak preview.” Make your guess and line up.

A24 will be launching its expected awards campaign for Sundance hit If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, starring Rose Byrne in an Oscar-buzzed performance. There also will, as usual, be several documentaries on hand including Ask E Jean, about advice columnist and TV personality E Jean Carroll and the infamous case she brought and won against Donald Trump for sexual assault; Morgan Neville’s Paul McCartney post-Beatles doc Man on the Run; Carol & Joy, Nathan Silver’s doc about actress Carol Kane and her 98-year-old mother; NatGeo’s Lost in the Jungle, the survival story of children fighting to stay alive after a plane crash in the Amazon kills all the adults on board; Netflix’s The New Yorker At 100; and then there’s the spirited The Cycle of Love about a young lovestruck man who rides his bicycle 7,000 miles from India to Sweden in search of true love.

Check back often on Deadline over the Labor Day weekend for the latest news, reviews and interviews from Telluride, one of the major Oscar-season kickoff fests and sure to be memorable.

Here’s this year’s lineup:

•       A PRIVATE LIFE (d. Rebecca Zlotowski, France, 2025)

•       ASK E. JEAN (d. Ivy Meeropol, U.S., 2025)

•       BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (d. Edward Berger, Hong Kong/Macau, 2025)

•       BLUE MOON (d. Richard Linklater, U.S./Ireland, 2025)

•       BUGONIA (d. Yorgos Lanthimos, U.K., 2025)

•       COVER-UP (d. Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, U.S., 2025)

•       EVERYWHERE MAN: THE LIVES AND TIMES OF PETER ASHER (d. Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller, U.S./U.K., 2025)

•       GHOST ELEPHANTS (d. Werner Herzog, Angola/Namibia/U.S., 2025)

•       H IS FOR HAWK (d. Philippa Lowthorpe, U.K./U.S., 2025)

•       HAMLET (d. Aneil Karia, U.K., 2025)

•       HAMNET (d. Chloé Zhao, U.K., 2025)

•       HIGHWAY 99 A DOUBLE ALBUM (d. Ethan Hawke, U.S., 2025)

•       IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (d. Mary Bronstein, U.S., 2025)

•       IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (d. Jafar Panahi, Iran/France/Luxembourg, 2025)

•       JAY KELLY (d. Noah Baumbach, Italy/U.K./U.S., 2025)

•       KARL (d. Nick Hooker, U.K., 2025)

•       LA GRAZIA (d. Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2025)

•       LOST IN THE JUNGLE (d. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Juan Camilo Cruz, U.S./Colombia, 2025)

•       LUMIÈRE, LE CINÉMA (d. Thierry Frémaux, France, 2024)

•       MAN ON THE RUN (d. Morgan Neville, U.S., 2025)

•       NOUVELLE VAGUE (d. Richard Linklater, France, 2025)

•       PILLION (d. Harry Lighton, U.K., 2025)

•       SENTIMENTAL VALUE (d. Joachim Trier, Norway/France/Denmark/Germany, 2025)

•       SHIFTY (d. Adam Curtis, U.K., 2025) 

•       SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (d. Scott Cooper, U.S., 2025)

•       SUMMER TOUR (d. Mischa Richter, U.S., 2025)

•       THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, David Schmidt, U.S., 2025)

•       THE BEND IN THE RIVER (d. Robb Moss, U.S., 2025)

•       THE CYCLE OF LOVE (d. Orlando von Einsiedel, U.K./India/Sweden, 2025)

•       THE HISTORY OF SOUND (d. Oliver Hermanus, U.S., 2025)

•       THE MASTERMIND (d. Kelly Reichardt, U.S., 2025)

•       THE NEW YORKER AT 100 (d. Marshall Curry, U.S., 2025)

•       THE RESERVE (d. Pablo Pérez Lombardini, Mexico/Qatar, 2025)

•       THE SECRET AGENT (d. Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany, 2025)

•       THIS IS NOT A DRILL (d. Oren Jacoby, U.S., 2025)

•       TUNER (d. Daniel Roher, U.S./Canada, 2025) 

•       URCHIN (d. Harris Dickinson, U.K., 2025)

The following short films will screen in the main program:

•       ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS (d. Joshua Seftel, U.S., 2025)

•       ALL THE WALLS CAME DOWN (d. Ondi Timoner, U.S., 2025)

•       LAST DAYS ON LAKE TRINITY (d. Charlotte Cooley, U.S., 2025)

•       SALLIE’S ASHES (d. Brennan Robideaux, U.S., 2025)

•       SONG OF MY CITY (d. David C. Roberts, U.S., 2025)