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| Andrew Haigh. Telluride Film Festival. |
Telluride Film Festival (TFF) 2026
Chuck Jones' Cinema, Mountain Village, 5 Sep 2026
TFF 2026 Program Guide:
Pico Iyer (TFF): "By now more and more of us have been enthralled—upended—by the quiet, emotionally intricate and ultimately devastating films of Andrew Haigh. They develop slowly, as a rule, and sometimes very little seems to happen—until we realize we’ve just experienced a near-silent detonation. One solitary, wordless scene reveals a love story to have been, all along, a heartbreaking portrait of loneliness. A couple has been married for almost half a century, but a letter arrives, and a woman realizes she may not know her lifelong partner at all. In his latest, A LONG WINTER, a young man watches his mother, with painful slowness, slip out of view."
"At the heart of Haigh’s achingly intimate portraits of vulnerability, no one knows where he stands in relation to anyone else. That’s the allure—the sorrow—of every exchange. Think of how the lonely protagonist in ALL OF US STRANGERS—the perfect title for all Haigh’s work—starts gazing at a man in a store. Some time after, the stranger comes up and says, “Let me take you home,” and we realize that this man the protagonist seemed to be cruising, is his dad."
"In that film, as in WEEKEND, Haigh was showing us how such uncertainties tremble with particular poignancy, traditionally, for gay men; there’s so much they can’t say—to parents, to colleagues, even to lovers. In both works, new loves check on the men they’re beginning to romance, with versions of “Are you queer?” Yet it’s reductive to cast him only as a groundbreaking explorer of the gay experience. In his unforgettable first film from the American West, LEAN ON PETE, you realize how many of us, in Haigh’s world, stand outside of family, looking in, and drift through brightly lit shadows in search of the smallest hope of connection."
"It seems almost inevitable that Haigh would be drawn to the contemporary novelist best known for his uncanny emotional intelligence, his fascination with secrecy and the intensity he builds without ever raising his voice, Colm Tóibín. His novella from twenty years ago, A Long Winter might almost have been an Andrew Haigh film the day it was composed, in part because both male artists inhabit female characters with uncanny, heart-stopping compassion."
"And no detail is accidental in a Haigh film: the shy man at the center of WEEKEND is a lifeguard surrounded by strangers taking long dives. Moments of astonishing beauty arrive, to be replaced by more anonymous tower blocks and convenience stores. In this land of the unspoken, almost everything is conveyed through eyes and the subtlest of movements. Long after the film ends, you’re trying to unriddle the relationships at their heart. Haigh’s movies are whispers you can’t get out of your head."
–Pico Iyer
The program includes a selection of clips, an on-stage interview and A LONG WINTER, shown in its entirety.
P/Fri 5:45PM - C/Sat 12:45PM
Interview with Pico Iyer 30 min.
CLIP REEL:
WEEKEND
45 YEARS
LEAN ON PETE
LOOKING
ALL OF US STRANGERS
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