# 1965 Cannes Film Festival

The 18th Cannes Film Festival took place from 3 to 16 May 1965. Olivia de Havilland served as jury president for the main competition, becoming the first woman to ever do so.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to The Knack ...and How to Get It by Richard Lester.
The festival opened with The Collector by William Wyler, and closed with Tokyo Olympiad by Kon Ichikawa.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress - Jury President
* Goffredo Lombardo, Italian producer - Jury Vice-President
* André Maurois, Frrnch writer - Honorary Jury President
* Max Aub, Mexican writer
* Michel Aubriant, French journalist
* Rex Harrison, British actor
* François Reichenbach, French filmmaker
* Alain Robbe-Grillet, French filmmaker
* Konstantin Simonov, Soviet writer
* Edmond Ténoudji, French-Algerian producer
* Jerzy Toeplitz, Polish film educator

### Short Films Competition

* Gérardot, French - Jury President
* Istvan Dosai, Hungarian cinematographer
* Jacques Ledoux, Belgian cinema specialist
* Herman van der Horst, Dutch
* Carlos Vilardebó, French

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The 317th Platoon | La 317ème section | Pierre Schoendoerffer | France |
| Always Further On | Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos) | Luis Alcoriza | Mexico |
| The Amphitheatre | El Reñidero | René Mugica | Argentina |
| Circus Angel | Fifi la plume | Albert Lamorisse | France |
| Clay | Clay | Giorgio Mangiamele | Australia |
| The Collector (opening film) | The Collector (opening film) | William Wyler | United Kingdom, United States |
| The First Day of Freedom | Pierwszy dzien wolnosci | Aleksander Ford | Poland |
| Forest of the Hanged | Padurea spânzuratilor | Liviu Ciulei | Romania |
| The Hill | The Hill | Sidney Lumet | United Kingdom |
| A Girl Danced Into His Life | Az Életbe táncoltatott leány | Tamás Banovich | Hungary |
| The Ipcress File | The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | United Kingdom |
| The Knack ...and How to Get It | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester | United Kingdom |
| Kwaidan | 怪談 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
| The Lark | Жаворонок | Nikita Kurikhin and Leonid Menaker | Soviet Union |
| Loving Couples | Älskande par | Mai Zetterling | Sweden |
| Men and Women | Noite Vazia | Walter Hugo Khouri | Brazil |
| The Moment of Truth | Il momento della verità | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
| My Home Is Copacabana | Mitt hem är Copacabana | Arne Sucksdorff | Sweden |
| The Shop on Main Street | Obchod na korze | Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos | Czechoslovakia |
| The Sin | الحرام | Henry Barakat | Egypt |
| Snakes and Ladders | El juego de la oca | Manuel Summers | Spain |
| There Was an Old Couple | Жили-были старик со старухой | Grigory Chukhray | Soviet Union |
| Torrid Noon | Горещо пладне | Zako Heskiya | Bulgaria |
| Treason | Προδοσία | Kostas Manoussakis | Greece |
| The Uninhibited | Los pianos mecánicos | Juan Antonio Bardem | Spain, France, Italy |
| Yo Yo | Yo Yo | Pierre Étaix | France |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Amsterdam (short) | Amsterdam (short) | Herman Van Der Horst | Netherlands |
| Le Cinquième Soleil | Le Cinquième Soleil | Jacqueline Grigaut-Lefevre | France |
| In Harm's Way | In Harm's Way | Otto Preminger | United States |
| John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums | Bruce Herschensohn | United States |
| Mary Poppins | Mary Poppins | Robert Stevenson | United States |
| Tokyo Olympiad (closing film) | 東京オリンピック | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Aah... Tamara by Pim de la Parra
* Anamniseis apo tin Ellada by Francis Carabott
* Asinus by Vasil Mirchev
* Au bord de la route by Chou-Tchen Wang
* Ban ye ji jiao by Yeou Lei
* Le Crocodile majuscule by Eddy Ryssack
* Évariste Galois by Alexandre Astruc
* Féerie du cuivre by Herbert E. Meyer
* I videl sam daljine meglene i kalne by Zlatko Bourek
* Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor by Jan Švankmajer
* Los Junqueros by Oscar Kantor
* The Legend of Jimmy Blue Eyes by Robert Clouse
* Monsieur Plateau by Jean Brismée
* Noworoczna noc by Jerzy Zitzman
* Ohrid Express by Jean Dasque and Robert Legrand
* Overture by János Vadász
* Petrol-Carburant-Kraftstoff by Hugo Niebeling
* Poprannii obet by Guénrikh Markarian
* Processioni in Sicilia by Michele Gandin
* Sanawat el magd by Atef Salem

## Parallel section
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 4th International Critics' Week (4e Semaine de la Critique):
* Amador by Francisco Regueiro (Spain)
* Andy by Richard C. Sarafian (United States)
* The Cat in the Bag (Le chat dans le sac) by Gilles Groulx (Canada)
* The Glass Cage (La cage de verre) by Philippe Arthuys, Jean-Louis Levi-Avarès (France, Israel)
* Hole in the Moon (Hor B'Levana) by Uri Zohar (Israel)
* It Happened Here by Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo (United Kingdom)
* Walkover by Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
* Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci) by Jan Nemec (Czechoslovakia)
* Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake by Mary Ellen Bute (United States)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Grand Prix du Festival International du film: The Knack ...and How to Get It by Richard Lester
* Prix spécial du Jury: Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi
* Best Director: Liviu Ciulei for Forest of the Hanged
* Best Screenplay:
** Pierre Schoendoerffer for The 317th Platoon
** Ray Rigby for The Hill
* Best Actress: Samantha Eggar for The Collector
* Best Actor: Terence Stamp for The Collector
* Special Mention:
** Jozef Kroner and Ida Kamińska for The Shop on Main Street
** Vera Kuznetsova for There Was an Old Couple

### Short Films Competition

* Short Film Palme d'Or: Overture by János Vadász
* Prix du Jury: Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor by Jan Švankmajer
* Prix spécial du Jury: Monsieur Plateau by Jean Brismée
* Short film Technical Prize:
** Ban ye ji jiao by Yeou Lei
** Overture by János Vadász

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* Always Further On by Luis Alcoriza

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize:
** Circus Angel by Albert Lamorisse
** A Girl Danced Into His Life by Tamás Banovich
* Special Mention: The Knack ...and How to Get It by Richard Lester

### OCIC Award

* OCIC Award: Yo Yo by Pierre Étaix

### Best Film for the Youth

* Los Junqueros by Oscar Kantor
* Yo Yo by Pierre Étaix