65th Venice International Film Festival Week: The following films were selected for the 5th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section: The following Official Awards were conferred at the 65th edition: In Competition (Venezia 65) Special Awards Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti) Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion) The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections: Venice International Film Critics' Week Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: 65th Venice International Film Festival The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on August
Songs of Life Festival by Bulgaria. When trains came to take 49,000 more Bulgarian Jews to the death camps, the Bulgarian people resisted the demands of the German government and refused to allow their Jewish neighbors to be sent to concentration camps in what was the single largest non-deportation of Jews during World War II. The Songs of Life Festival debuted in November 2008 on the 65th anniversary of the rescue in the Bulgarian cities of Sofia and Plovdiv and in Petah Tikva and Jerusalem in Israel. Ernest Bloch’s choral-orchestral piece, "Sacred Service", a Jewish work, was performed. During the inaugural festival, 49,000 flowers