FESTIVAL OF EUROPEAN FILMS KICKS OFF

Armenpress
Dec 12 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: Today the festival of European films
kicked off in Armenia. In Yerevan the festival will be conducted from
December 12 to 16, in Gyumri from December 14 to 17 and in Kapan from
December 16-19. It is the third festival conducted in Armenia.

Robin Lidel, the first consultant of the European Commission in
Armenia, told today at a press conference that within the framework
of the festival three films in Gyumri and Kapan will be shown free
of charge. In Yerevan the income which will be gathered from the sale
of the tickets will be used for charity reasons. Overall, as part of
the festival 10 films from Germany, Spain, Portugal, Poland, France,
Great Britain and Holland will be shown.

Poland and Portugal have joined the festival in Armenia for the
first time. R. Lidel expressed hope that the Armenian audience will
be interested in the films and quoted "film will never be a good one
if the camera is not an eye placed in the head of a poet".

According to the German ambassador to Armenia Heike Renate Peitsch,
it is very important that such like cultural events organized by the
EU member countries are held not only in Yerevan but in the Armenian
provinces as well.

The festival was opened today by "Destroyed Art" short film (Poland,
director Tomash Baginski).