is just around the corner, and while organizers at the Denver Film Society are still filling in dozens of details, the red carpet and award-nominated films .
Director Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” starring Saoirse Ronan, will open the festival with a red carpet screening at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Nov. 1, while “I, Tonya,” directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Margot Robbie, will close it out at the same location on Nov. 11.
In between, the Nov. 1-12 festival will present more than 200 titles in competition and additional red carpet screenings such as Richard Levin’s festival Centerpiece film “Submission,” starring Stanley Tucci and Kyra Sedgwick (Nov. 3), the Big Night presentation of “Molly’s Game,” from writer-director Aaron Sorkin (starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba and Kevin Costner on Nov. 9) and the red-carpet matinee “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” from writer-director Martin McDonagh, starring Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson (Nov. 11).
A special Spotlight Presentation of “Ballad of Lefty Brown,” starring Bill Pullman and Peter Fonda, will get its own red carpet screening at the UA Denver Pavilions on Nov. 8.
Along the way, the festival will present more than 200 features, documentaries and local films amid industry panels, workshops, awards and tributes, and a focus on Danish cinema, according to a press statement.
There’s no word yet on celebrities in attendance, although last year’s event drew “La La Land” star Emma Stone and director Damien Chazelle to the opening-night red carpet premiere, amid a total 57,000 attendees, according to the Denver Film Society.
The full festival program will be announced on Oct. 10, when single tickets will also go on sale to Denver Film Society members, with the general public able to buy them on Oct. 12. Tickets will be available for purchase online at or the DFF main box office location at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave.
More details on the festival’s 40th annual programming:
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
“Call Me by Your Name”
“Chappaquiddick”
“Darkest Hour”
“Human Flow”
“In the Fade”
“Ismael’s Ghosts”
“Last Flag Flying”
“The Leisure Seeker”
“Novitiate”
“The Party”
“Sollers Point”
“Vigilante: The Incredible True Story of Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels”
KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM FINALISTS
“The Happiness of the World”
“In the Fade”
“Quality Time”
“Radiance”
“Thelma”
“Under the Tree”
MAYSLES BROTHERS AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FINALISTS
“32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide”
“Alphago”
“Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?”
“Faces Places”
“No Man’s Land”
“Strad Style”
AMERICAN INDEPENDENT NARRATIVE AWARD FINALISTS
“Discreet”
“Golden Exits”
“The Misogynists”
“Mr. Roosevelt”
“The Strange Ones”
“Thirst Street”
TRUE GRIT BEST COLORADO FEATURE FILM AWARD FINALISTS
Features:
“Amy & Sophia”
“Gnaw”
“Home Truth”
“Hondros”
“JonBenet’s Tricycle”
“Liyana”
“Moving Parts”
“Walden: Life in the Woods”
Shorts:
“Chocolate Spokes”
“Chowder”
“The Day Before”
“Diving Monkeys”
“Dreamspook”
“Fed to Fire”
“Final Four”
“Mrs. Drake”
“Oh, Ophelia”
“The Outsider”
“The Romantic Method”
“Unseen”
