| Location | Moscow, Soviet Union |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1959 |
| Awards | Grand Prix |
| Festival date | 5–20 July 1965 |
| Website | http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru |
The 4th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1965.[1] The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film War and Peace directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and the Hungarian film Twenty Hours directed by Zoltán Fábri.
The following films were selected for the main competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acteón | Acteon | Jorge Grau | Spain |
| The White Moor | De-aș fi... Harap Alb | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Romania |
| The Great Race | The Great Race | Blake Edwards | United States |
| Marriage Italian-Style | Matrimonio all'italiana | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, France |
| War and Peace | Vojna i mir | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union |
| Twenty Hours | Husz ora | Zoltán Fábri | Hungary |
| Tine | Tine | Knud Leif Thomsen | Denmark |
| Darling | Darling | John Schlesinger | Great Britain |
| Friendship | Dosti | Satyen Bose | India |
| Friendship is Friendship | Friendship is Friendship | Dejidiin Jigjid | Mongolia |
| Driven from Paradise | طريد الفردوس, Tarid el firdaos | Fatin Abdel Wahab | Egypt |
| Love and Grudge | Aşk ve Kin | Turgut Demirağ | Turkey |
| My Home Is Copacabana | Mitt hem är Copacabana | Arne Sucksdorff | Sweden |
| The Young Soldier | Người Chiến Sĩ Trẻ | Hải Ninh, Nguyễn Đức Hinh | North Vietnam |
| The Young Will Live | O neoi theloun na zisoun | Nikos Tzimas | Greece |
| Heaven on One's Head | Le Ciel sur la tête | Yves Ciampi | France, Italy |
| No Man's Land | No Man's Land | A. Suravijaya | Indonesia |
| A Day in a Solar | Un día en el solar | Eduardo Manet | Cuba |
| The Camp Followers | Le soldatesse | Valerio Zurlini | Italy, Yugoslavia, France, West Germany |
| Father of a Soldier | Otets soldata | Rezo Chkheidze | Soviet Union |
| Atentát | Atentát | Jiří Sequens | Czechoslovakia |
| The Glass Cage | Ha-kluv hazehuhit | Philippe Arthuys | France, Israel |
| The Adventures of Werner Holt | Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt | Joachim Kunert | East Germany |
| Prometheus of the Island | Prometej s otoka Visevice | Vatroslav Mimica | Yugoslavia |
| The Sucker | Le Corniaud | Gérard Oury | France |
| Bull | Vula | Nikola Korabov | Bulgaria |
| Children Hand in Hand | Te o tsunagu kora | Susumu Hani | Japan |
| La pérgola de las flores | La pérgola de las flores | Román Viñoly Barreto | Argentina, Spain |
| Onnelliset leikit | Onnelliset leikit | Aito Mäkinen, Esko Elstelä | Finland |
| Three Steps on Earth | Trzy kroki po ziemi | Jerzy Hoffman, Edward Skórzewski | Poland |
| So Young a Peace | Al-salam al-walid | Jacques Charby | Algeria |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Onkel Toms Hütte | Géza von Radványi | West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia |
| 4x4 | 4x4 | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, Klaus Rifbjerg, Rolf Clemens, Maunu Kurkvaara, Jan Troell | Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden |
| Bergwind | Sturm am Wilden Kaiser | Eduard von Borsody | Austria |