[5] Films scheduled for 1960 included Hiroshima mon amour, The World of Apu, The Hidden Fortress, The Savage Eye, and Sons and Lovers.
[8] After the Avon Theatre was renovated, the festival was relaunched in 1969 by Gerald Pratley of the Ontario Film Institute, and staged its first revived iteration in 1971.
[9] Films screened at the 1971 festival included Mon oncle Antoine, King Lear, Tomorrow My Love, Playtime, Derby, Doctor Glas, The Confrontation, A Little Fellow from Gambo, Millhouse, Three to Go, Deep End, Punishment Park, Lola Montès, Medea, W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism and Bless the Beasts and Children.
[13] Films screened that year included Visit to a Chief's Son, Between Wars, Royal Flash, Akenfield, Cats' Play, Lions for Breakfast, F for Fake, The Moon and the Sledgehammer, A Private Enterprise, Nirmalyam, Impossible Object, The Men, For Better or For Worse (Pour le meilleur et pour le pire) and Eliza's Horoscope, as well as a retrospective of the films of Harold Lloyd.
[14] In tandem with the expected decline in attendance given Stratford's proximity to Toronto, organizers decided to cancel the planned 1976 festival.