10th Festival 1963

A special guest of the Festival was Mme Kashiko Kawakita, from the Japan Film Council Library.

The Festival opened with the Czech film Baron Munchausen by Karel Zeman.

Twenty-three features were screened in all, among them François Truffaut’s Shoot the Pianist, Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Andrzej Wajda’s Innocent Sorcerers, Jacques Rivette’s first feature Paris is Ours and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Leon Morin – Priest. Also, Frank Perry’s David & Lisa, Kurt Hoffman’s Mr. Mississippi’s Marriage (West Germany). Stanislaw Rozewicz’s Birth Certificate (Poland). Zdeněk Podskalský’s Out of Reach of the Devil (Czechoslovakia). Herman van der Horst's Fiery Love (Netherlands), David Jose Kohan’s Three Times Ana (Argentina). Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (USA), Ion Popescu-Gopo’s A Bomb Was Stolen (Romania), Jack Witikka’s The Gift (Finland), Shen Fu’s New Story of an Old Soldier (China) , Nitin Bose’s Gunga Jumna (India). Karoly Makk’s The Obsessed (Hungary), Kurt Maetzig’s The Silent Planet (East Germany), Flavia Migliaccio’s The Beggars (Brazil), Rangel Vulchanov’s Sun and Shadow (Bulgaria) and James Blue’s The Olive Trees of Justice (France/Algeria).

Shorts included: Don Owen’s Runner, Miklós Jancsó’s Immortality, Bert Haanstra’s Zoo and Delta Phase One, Robert Enrico’s Magic Mountains, Richard Williams’ Lecture on Man, Ferenc Kosa’s The Light, Jiri Trnka’s Passion, Dusan Vukotic’s Academy Award winner Ersatz, John Korty’s Language of Faces, Ernest Pintoff’s The Critic and Clement Perron’s Day After Day.