SERGEY PARAJANOV’S FILM AT THE KOREAN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

AZG Armenian Daily
22/06/200

A special program – "Divergency and Resistance: Films Prohibited in
the USSR" – was held at the International Film Festival in Jeonju,
South Korea from April 27 to May 5. Sergey Parajanov’s "The Ukrainian
Rhapsody" (1961) was shown among other films. A leaflet especially
published for this program included article "Maestro Sargis" of film
critic Artsvi Bakhchinian.

British-Armenian filmmaker Von (Vahan) Pilikian’s "Hummer and Flame"
documentary, award-winner of Golden Apricot film festival 2005,
was also shown in Jeonju.

Von Pelikian was in Armenia in May and showed his feature and animated
films as well as documentaries at the Narekatsi Center.