M. STAMBOLIAN: "IT IS NECESSARY TO BRING AN END TO TALK THAT THERE IS NO LONGER ANY ARMENIAN CINEMA"

Noyan Tapan
Jul 10 2007

YEREVAN, 10 JULY, NOYAN TAPAN. The director of the Fourth ‘Golden
Apricot’ Film Festival program, Mikael Stambolian, gave this statement
at the July 9 press conference: "It is necessary to bring an end to
talk that there is no longer any Armenian cinema. Today in Armenian
cinema positive changes are in place that these processes, in the
long run, will have serious results."

The Festival’s director, presenting the participants of the festival
program with "Armenian Panorama", emphasized the significance of
their work, having added "that all of such good work, it seems,
does not suffice as prizes for all."

The participant of the "Armenian Panorama" program, director David
Saakian, contributed the film "Four Songs" to the festival, the
occasion for the creation of which were four songs of Ruben Akhverdian:
"Raduga", "Little Ship", "Monkey", and "National Song".

The director of the documentary film "The Sanctified Grapes",
David Aslanian, presented in his work an original commentary on the
holiday of the transformation of the Holy Virgin Mary. In the words
of the director, he attempted to show to the faithful the essence of
the ceremony. "Merchants come, the feast begins, the surrounding
environment becomes dirty and the spiritual is shunted to the
background. I wanted to express my protest with this film. People must
understand that spiritual values should not erode", the director noted.