12-19 July 1969. The First Men on the Moon.
On the 16th of July, during the 7th edition of the Festival, Apollo 11 takes off, taking for the first time a man to the Moon. The leaflet of the Fantastic Art Exhibition, organized in cooperation with Sindacato Regionale Artisti Pittori Scultori e Incisori of Trieste, evokes the first Moon landing.

In the magazine “Oltre il Cielo – Missili e Razzi” special edition about the following Apollo 12 mission (n. 153, nov-dec 1969), there is a section on the International Science Fiction Festival in Trieste. During this edition of the Festival one of the side events is a retrospective exhibition on Roger Corman, who was awarded the Astronave d’argento (Silver Spaceship) in 1963.

Giuria: Mario Soldati, James Blish, Jean-Louis Comolli, Roger Corman, Zelimir Matko