GOLDEN JAM FOR OUR SPECTATORS
"We are going to have a new Armenian film for each year. And each year we will open "Golden Apricot" international film festival with that new Armenia film," the organizers of the film festival stated. As compared to the last year, there will be two competitions at the film festival, one for Armenian, and the second for foreign films. Harutyun Khachatrian, director of "Golden Apricot" film festival is sure that the Armenian cinema has its unique place in the world. He said that contemporary Armenian directors continue the path of Parajanov and Peleshian.
The members of "Armenian Panorama" Jury, the films included in the festival, as well as the envisaged arrangements were introduced to the journalists at the press conference on June 16. On June 12-17 "Cinema Is Means of Intercultural Dialogue" international seminar will be held in Yerevan, besides the festival. Evenings dedicated to Hrant Matevosian, Mher Mkrtchian, Henrik Malian, Khoren Abrahamian, Aghasi Ayvazyan will be held. There will also be meetings with Arsine Khanjian. Krystoff Zanussi and Claude Miller.
"Armenian Panorama" program aims at uniting and representing the pieces of the Armenian film directors from all over the world. "They will familiarized with our films, with the Armenian culture, while we will learn more about them. It’s also very important that we will have the opportunity to enrich our film collection with new films," Garegin Zakoyan, chairman of "Armenian Panorama" competition, said at the press conference.
Atom Egoyan, chairman of the Fiction Film Jury, will deliver master class lectures together with the other prominent figures of the world’s cinema at the cinema hall of the Yerevan State Picture Gallery.
Susanna Harutyunian, head of festival programs, sad that they are going to show documentary films shot in Chili, Nicaragua, Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Lithuania about the contemporary life.
This is the second year the film festival is held. The specialists said that it grew and ripened in a year. It is symbolized by the logo of the festival that pictures apricot jam on bread. "The apricot ripened in a year and became jam and now we treat it to our spectators," Harutyun Khachatrian said.
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