AZG Daily #128, 07/11/2006

Festival

"GOLDEN APRICOT" FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES IN YEREVAN

"Golden Apricot" third international film festival
launched in Yerevan. In response to the questions of
the journalists, Atom Egoyan, Canadian film director,
chairman of the fiction films’ competition, stated
that the festival doesn’t yield to the international
film festivals by its content and quality of the
films. He added that the films included in the
competition programs of the festival were thoroughly
chosen by the members of the jury.

The organization committee of the festival says that
the reporters will be able to watch the ceremony on a
big screen that will be put in the square in front of
the cinema. So as to recompense the reporters their
loss, the organization committee will organize free
fourchettes for them. During the fourchettes the
reporters will be able to meet world famous
celebrities. In particular, it concerns Iranian
director Mokhsene Makhmalbafe, Italian Marco
Bellocchio, the French Armenian Robert Getikian, and
outstanding Armenian film director Artavazd Peleshian
and Aleksander Adabashian. All of them will deliver
master classes at RA State Picture Gallery from July
9-16. The festival will launch by the retrospective
show of "Namous" Armenian film screened by Hamo
Beknazarian, founder of the Armenian Cinematography,
in 1925.

About 100 films by directors from 58 countries will be
shown within the framework of the festival on July
10-15. The competition program includes films by Perdo
Almodovar, Krzsystof Zanussi, Aleksander German
Junior, Rakhshan Bani- Etemada. The program of
documentary films includes the films by Mickael
Glavoger, Gunar Bergdal, Sergey Loznica and Victor
Kosakovskiy. "The Armenian Panorama" competition
includes 25 films from various countries.

By Tamar Minasian
From: Baghdasarian