GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ENCOURAGED BY DISCONTENTS

Panorama.am
15:54 21/06/06

Before Golden Apricot film festival has launched, discontents are heard
connected with the assessments made by the selection committee. The
director of the festival Harutiun Khachatryan is aware of these
displeasures. However he told a press conference today that he is
encouraged by them. ‘According to authors some good films were not
selected. May be the selection committee was wrong, may be they have
different taste. Art is subjective, after all. There are people who
are discontent and hurt but I am happy because the former indifference
has passed away," he told a press conference today.

The director said that they wanted to include more films in the
festival. However, he also said that the festival has grown against the
last year. This year 50 mln Armenian drams have been allocated from the
state budget against 25 mln last year for the festival.