REPORTERS NOT TO BE ADMITTED TO THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL ‘GOLDEN APRICOT’ FESTIVAL

Yerevan, July 8. ArmInfo. Reporters will not be admitted to the hall
of ‘Moscow’ cinema, Yerevan, to the opening ceremony of the Third
International ‘Golden Apricot’ festival because of lack of free space.

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.