12th Festival 1965

The Turner Hall theatre was replaced – for two years – with the Hub Theatre at Newtown.

The Festival opened with Bryan Forbes’ Seance on a Wet Afternoon, and included first features by Miloš Forman (Peter and Pavla), Jacques Demy (Lola) and Istvan Gaal (The Current).

Twenty-four features were shown in all, the rest being: Jean-Luc Godard’s Bande a part, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman of the Dunes, Mikhail Romm’s Nine Days of One Year, Louis Malle’s Le feu toilet, William Wyler’s The Collector and Don Owen’s Nobody Waved Goodbye; also Susumu Hani’s She and He (Japan), Gottfried Kolditz’s Beloved White Mouse (East Germany), Wojiech Has’ How to be Loved (Poland), Louis Berlanga’s The Executioner (Spain) Giorgio Mangamele’s Clay (Australia), Will Tremper’s The Endless Night (West Germany) , Roberto Gavaldon’s Macario (Mexico), Bert Haanstra’s The Human Dutch (Netherlands), Karel Zeman’s A Jester’s Tale (Czechoslovakia), Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar (India), Oldrich Lipsky’s Lemonade Joe (Czechoslovakia), Gregory Markopoulos' Twice a Man (USA) and Lu Jen’s Hsi-wang and his Wife (China).

‘A Tribute to Ken Hall’ was arranged, and a ‘Forum on Film Criticism’ chaired by ABC critic Frank Legg.

Among the short films included were: Vera Chytilova’s The Ceiling, Santiago Alvarez’ Cyclone, Don Levy’s A Question of Time, Bruno Bozzetto’s Two Castles, John Hubley’s The Hole, Jan Lenica’s A, Ian Dunlop’s The Aborigines of Australia, Norman Mclaren’s Canon, John Krish’s I Think They Call Him John, Bob Godfrey’s The Rise and Fall of Emily Sprod and Julian Biggs’ 23 Skidoo.