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
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Zoltán Várkonyi
- Luchino Visconti
- Sergei Gerasimov
- Karel Zeman
- Mehboob Khan
- Joshua Logan
- Leon Moussinac
- Roger Manwell
- Francisco Piña
- Walieddin Youssef Samih
- Jerzy Toeplitz
- Huang Guang
- Michael Tschesno-Hell
- Liviu Ciulei
- Borislav Sharaliev
Films in competition
| English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
| Alba Regia | Alba Regia | Mihály Szemes | Hungary |
| Das Riesenrad | Das Riesenrad | Géza von Radványi | West Germany |
| Big Request Concert | Das große Wunschkonzert | Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Austria |
| Det store varpet | Nils R. Müller | Norway | |
| Warriors for Freedom | Pedjuang | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia |
| William Tell | Wilhelm Tell | Michel Dikoff | Switzerland |
| Sunrise at Campobello | Vincent J. Donehue | United States | |
| The Children of Bullerbyn Village | Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn | Olle Hellbom | Sweden |
| Everybody Go Home | Tutti a casa | Luigi Comencini | Italy, France |
| The Naked Island | Hadaka no shima | Kaneto Shindo | Japan |
| Thirst | Setea | Mircea Drăgan | Romania |
| Enclosure | L'Enclos | Armand Gatti | France, Yugoslavia |
| We Were Young | A byahme mladi | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
| Kukuli | Kukuli | Luis Figueroa, Eulogio Nishiyama, Cesar Villanueva | Peru |
| Kurulubedda | Kurulubedda | L. S. Ramachandran | Ceylon |
| Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Chaudhvin Ka Chand | Mohammed Sadiq | India |
| To My Father in Ulan Bator | Ulaan-Baatart baygaa miniy aavd | Dejidiin Jigjid | Mongolia |
| The Beginning and the End | بداية ونهاية | Salah Abu Seif | Egypt |
| Nebeski odred | Bosko Boskovic, Ilija Nikolic | Yugoslavia | |
| The Fire on the Second Line | Lửa Trung Tuyến | Phạm Văn Khoa | North Vietnam |
| The Last Winter | Den sidste vinter | Frank Dunlop, Anker Sørensen, Edvin Tiemroth | Denmark, West Germany |
| The Haunted Castle | Das Spukschloß im Spessart | Kurt Hoffmann | West Germany |
| Professor Mamlock | Professor Mamlock | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| The Trials of Oscar Wilde | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Ken Hughes | United Kingdom |
| Stories of the Revolution | Historias de la revolución | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Tumangan River | Tumangan River | Chen San In | North Korea |
| Tonight a City Will Die | Dziś w nocy umrze miasto | Jan Rybkowski | Poland |
| A Revolutionary Family | Geming jiating | Shui Hua | China |
| Skandaali tyttökoulussa | Edvin Laine | Finland | |
| Juana Gallo | Juana Gallo | Miguel Zacarías | Mexico |
| Fetters | Pouta | Karel Kachyňa | Czechoslovakia |
| Clear Skies | Chistoe nebo | Grigori Chukhrai | Soviet Union |
| This Earth Is Mine | Esta tierra es mía | Hugo del Carril | Argentina |
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