BIDS OF 454 FILMS RECEIVED FOR PARTICIPATION IN GOLDEN APRICOT 5TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

NOYAN TAPAN

Ju ne 26

The number of film bids received for participation in the Golden
Apricot (Voske Tsiran) 5th International Film Festival to be held on
July 13-20 in Yerevan was unprecedentedly big, 454 films, 165 out
of which were selected. As cinema critic Mikayel Stamboltsian, the
festival programs’ director, said at the June 26 press conference,
the big number of films created rather a complicated situation, but
"hard professional work was done and the best ones were selected."

According to M. Stamboltsian, the festival’s contest programs have
been kept unchanghed, Fiction Films, Documentary Films, and Armenian
Panorama. In total, 53 films will be presented in these three contest
programs.

This year, according to M. Stamboltsian, there are also many
extra-contest programs: Yerevan premiere, retrospective shows,
tribute of respect, European panorama, documentary world, Arab nights,
Armenian information program, Directors Without Borders program.

Especially this year’s retrospective shows extra-contest program
is noteworthy, as festival organizers have included filsm of great
Persian director Dariush Mehrjui, President of European Film Academy,
renowned German director Wim Wenders, and renowned French director
Catherine Breillat in it.

On the occasion of William Saroyan’s 100th anniversary, this year
Golden Apricot will present films shot on the basis of Saroyan’s
works in Armenia and abroad.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress