1965 Best Documentary (Shared)
Before The Leaves Fall
Director: Wladyslaw Slesicki
Producer: The Documentary Film Studio, Warsaw
Poland

Creators
Director: Karol Skripsky
Producer: Kratky Film, Prague
Czechoslovakia

1965 Best General Interest Short Film (Shared)
60 Cycles
Director: Jean-Claude Labrecque
Producer: National Film Board of Canada
Canada

Trinidad and Tobago
Producer: British Petroleum Company
UK

1965 Best Scientific and Educational
Signals
Director: Raimond Ruehl
Producer: Gesellschaft Fur Bildende Filme
Germany

1965 Highlights

• Cork 1965 Film Festival was the greatest ever but future of festival is not secure unless there is greater financial support from Bord Failte
• Increase in sale of tickets as a result of high percentage of overseas sales
• Package tours target members of film societies in the UK
• Greatest number of journalists attend festival to date with a notable increase in the number of European journalists.
• Opening Gala: (Hungary) Skylark, directed by Lasslo Ransdy
• Closing Gala: (Mexico) The Boy and the Ball, directed by Ismael Rodrigues
• Festival is closed by Cyril Cusack