26th Venice International Film Festival
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Sandra |
| Festival date | 24 August – 6 September 1965 |
| Website | Website |
The 26th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 6 September 1965.[1]
Italian poet Carlo Bo was the Jury President. The Golden Lion winner was Sandra directed by Luchino Visconti.
Jury
- Carlo Bo, Italia poet - Jury President[2]
- Lewis Jacobs, American filmmaker
- Nikolai Lebedev, Soviet actor
- Jay Leyda, American filmmaker
- Max Lippmann, German film historian
- Edgar Morin, French philosopher
- Rune Waldekranz, Swedish producer
Official Sections
The following films were selected to be screened:[3]
Main Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faithfulness | Верность | Pyotr Todorovsky | Soviet Union |
| I Am Twenty | Мне двадцать лет | Marlen Khutsiev | |
| Juliet of the Spirits | Giulietta degli spiriti | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Kapurush | কাপুরুষ | Satyajit Ray | India |
| Loves of a Blonde | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia |
| Mickey One | Arthur Penn | United States | |
| Modiga mindre män | Leif Krantz | Sweden | |
| Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| Red Beard | 赤ひげ | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Sandra | Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| Simon of the Desert | Simón del desierto | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| Three Rooms in Manhattan | Trois chambres à Manhattan | Marcel Carné | France |
Out of Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Wind | Viento negro | Servando González | Mexico |
| Deaf Sam-yong | 벙어리 삼룡 | Sang-ok Shin | South Korea |
| The Deceased | A Falecida | Leon Hirszman | Poland |
| Film | Alan Schneider | United States | |
| Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | |
| The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester | United Kingdom | |
| A Man Named John | E venne un uomo | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| Salto | Tadeusz Konwicki | Poland | |
| The Shameless Old Lady | La vieille dame indigne | René Allio | France |
| Seven Golden Men | 7 uomini d'oro | Marco Vicario | Italy |
| Studies for Louisiana Story | Robert J. Flaherty | United States | |
| Sunday Afternoon | Domingo à Tarde | António de Macedo | Portugal |
| Twenty Hours | Húsz óra | Zoltán Fábri | Hungary |
| War and Peace | Война и мир | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union |
Official Awards
Main Competition
- Golden Lion: Sandra by Luchino Visconti
- Special Jury Prize:
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Toshirô Mifune by Red Beard
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Annie Girardot by Three Rooms in Manhattan
- Best First Work: Faithfulness by Pyotr Todorovsky
Independent Awards
FIPRESCI Prize
OCIC Award
UNICRIT Award
Lion of San Marco
- Utek do vetru by Václav Táborsky
- Tjorven, Båtsman och Moses by Olle Hellbom
- The Snowy Day by Mal Wittman
- Enter Hamlet by School of Visual Art California
- Best Film about Adolescence: The Searching Eye by Saul Bass
- Best Documentary: Le isole incantante by Aleksandr Zguridi
- Best Documentary - Television: Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy by Liliana Cavani
- Best Children's Film - Television: Charley by Jimmy Murakami & Alan Ball
- Grand Prize: Jack Frost by Aleksandr Rou
- Silver Medal: Daylight Robbery by Darryl Read
San Michele Award
- The Whacky Mixed-Up Carabiniers by Felix G. Palmer
References
- ^ "The 1960s". Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1960s". Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ^ "26. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org. Retrieved 15 June 2025.