4th Festival 1957

For what was to prove a none-too-successful two year experiment, the Festival shifted from the Queen's Birthday weekend in June to the Labor Day weekend in October, in an attempt to take advantage of warmer weather, participate in Waratah Week celebrations and to follow closely the major European festivals. The University venues were retained, and 11 new features were presented: Satyajit Ray's first two films, Pather Panchali and Aparajito, Michael Cacoyannis' first film, Windfall in Athens (Greece), Ladislao Vajda’s Marcalino (Spain), Otakar Vavra's Jan Hus Czechoslovakia), Georges Rouquier's Farrebique (France), Sergei Samsanov's The Grasshopper (USSR) and three films from Japan -- Shira Toyoda’s Legend of a White Serpent, Koji Shirna's The Phantom Horse, and Keisuke Kinoshitas 24 Eyes; from Sweden came Alf Sjoberg's Frenzy, scripted by lngmar Bergman. Classics featured were Harold Lloyd's Safety Last and Raymond Longford's On Our Selection. Shorts included Lindsay Anderson's O Dreamland, Nice Time, by the Swiss directors Alain Tanner and Claude' Gorretta, Georges Franju's Sang des betes, Anthony Simmons' Bow Bells and John Halas’ Animal Vegetable Mineral.

This year the Festival was incorporated as a legal entity.