[1] The festival of Pesaro, especially in its early years, kept an agenda of praising and discussing the craft of cinema without following the film star system.
[2] In the first four editions, the exhibition became a sort of world reference point for cinematographic renewal, with the participation, among others, of Joris Ivens, Roberto Rossellini, Cesare Zavattini, Jean-Marie Straub, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jonas Mekas, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean- Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Glauber Rocha.
Among the hundreds of films presented in the four-year period between 1965 and 1968, there are almost all the major achievements of the Czechoslovakian Nová vlna, titles of the new cinema in Budapest, of the Soviet, Polish, Romanian and less conformist German-democratic cinema.
[1] The first golden season closed with 1968, the year in which - after the closing of the Cannes Film Festival contested and interrupted by filmmakers - the Festival was the first Italian cultural institution to be contested: but the management opened the doors to students and he called an assembly in front of which he resigned accepting a technical coordination that guaranteed the screening of all the films on the program but not the collateral initiatives.
Mostra internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro (Italian Wikipedia)