GOLDEN JAM FOR OUR SPECTATORS

AZG Armenian Daily #112, 18/06/2005

Cinema

“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~Rs 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~Rs 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.

By Tamar Minasian

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress