2nd Moscow International Film Festival

The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961. The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film The Naked Island directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film Clear Skies directed by Grigori Chukhrai.

Jury

 * Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury)
 * Chinghiz Aitmatov (USSR)
 * Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary)
 * Luchino Visconti (Italy)
 * Sergei Gerasimov (USSR)
 * Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia)
 * Mehboob Khan (India)
 * Joshua Logan (USA)
 * Leon Moussinac (France)
 * Roger Manwell (Great Britain)
 * Francisco Piña (Mexico)
 * Walieddin Youssef Samih (Egypt)
 * Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
 * Huang Guang (China)
 * Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany)
 * Liviu Ciulei (Romania)
 * Borislav Sharaliev (Bulgaria)

Films in competition
The following films were selected for the main competition:

Awards

 * Grand Prix:
 * The Naked Island by Kaneto Shindo
 * Clear Skies by Grigori Chukhrai
 * Special Golden Prize: Everybody Go Home by Luigi Comencini
 * Golden Prizes:
 * Professor Mamlock by Konrad Wolf
 * We Were Young by Binka Zhelyazkova
 * Silver Prizes:
 * Alba Regia by Mihály Szemes
 * Thirst by Mircea Drăgan
 * The Haunted Castle by Kurt Hoffmann
 * Director: Armand Gatti for Enclosure
 * Actor: Peter Finch for The Trials of Oscar Wilde
 * Actor: Bambang Hermanto for Warriors for Freedom
 * Actress: Yu Lan for A Revolutionary Family
 * Director of photography: Boguslaw Lambach for Tonight a City Will Die
 * Decorator Bill Constable and costume designer Terence Morgan for The Trials of Oscar Wilde