The Telluride Film Festival, that offbeat, indie-loving little Rocky Mountain hootenany that opens Friday and runs through the weekend, usually offers a lot of overlap with the much larger Toronto Film Festival, which starts next week. But Telluride has just announced this year’s schedule and they’ve got a humdinger premiere: “The Way Back,” a Colin Firth starrer directed by the usually-brilliant Peter Weir about an escape from a Soviet gulag in 1940. Soviet atrocities have, for obvious reasons, attracted very little attention from Hollywood filmmakers over the years. The film is slated for an awards-season release in December and it marks Weir’s first film since the magnificent “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” in 2003. Telluride also has Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones‘s Elia Kazan documentary “A Letter to Elia,” which is showing in Venice but not Toronto. Some films that are playing at both Telluride and Toronto include the Keira Knightley cloning drama “Never Let Me Go,” Mike Leigh‘s “Another Year” and Stephen Frears‘s “Tamara Drewe.”