1957 Best Documentary
A Village In Travencore
Directors: Paul Zils, Fali Bilimoria
Producer: Burmah-Shell Film Unit
Italy

1957 Best Educational Short
Alla Scoperta Dell Universo (The Discovery Of The World)
Director: Vittorio Carpignano
Producer: S.E.D.I. Rome
Italy

1957 Best General Interest
City Of Gold
Directors: Colin Low, Wolf Koenig
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Canada

1957 Best Cartoon Short
To Your Health
Director: Philip Stapp
Producer: Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films
UK

1957 Highlights

• Following the success of the 1956 International Film Festival, the Council of the Festival of Cork decide to promote a World Film Week
• Cork Film Week is opened by Mr Aiken, Minister for External Affairs.
• Fourteen nations are represented in the festival. There are 4 world premieres and another three European Premieres.
• An Italian film is shown in Italian without subtitles "English dubbing would have sharpened appreciation" says press
• 'Devil in Silk' by Dr Hermann Scherwin staring Winnie Markus opens the festival. Actress attends festival
• Dawn Adams, whose mother was from Cork and who married an Italian prince, requested a milk bath in a Cork hotel and is refused. Of the reported disagreement with Mr Breen, Miss Adams said: "we had a row , he told me the idea was in poor taste. I told him he had insulted me but we are best friends again" The bath in 20 gallons of cold Jersey milk costing £3 was very enjoyable said Adams (Dawn Adams was given a milk bath by a hotel in Dublin)
• Festival closes with the screen version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Saint Joan' directed by Mr Preminger