The 2024TellurideFilm Festival kicked off August 30 and runs through September 2 in the Colorado mountains.

Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films.

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Telluride Film Festival 2024 lineup

Clockwise from top left: ‘The End,’ ‘The Piano Lesson,’ ‘Conclave,’ ‘Saturday Night’ and ‘Nickel Boys’Felix Dickinson/Brian Douglas/Netflix/Focus Features/Sony

One line pops up throughout the dramedy: What happens to the dog?

Answer: His own morose heartbreak will also breakyours.

Is it a documentary?

Telluride Film Festival 2024 lineup

Raechelle Banno and director Michael Gracey on the ‘Better Man’ set

You bet and more.

Williams and Neville have taken it apart and put it all back together to perfection.