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Armenian Film Festival to be held at MFA, Boston
12.04.2009 00:48 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance is proud to
present the Second Annual Armenian Film Festival at The Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston from May 1 to 3. The festival celebrates Armenian
culture, heritage, language and filmmakers with films ranging from the
documentary to the dramatic. The festival kicks off on Friday evening,
May 1st, with The Blue Hour by Eric Nazarian, a film following several
strangers in Los Angeles whose stories of loss and hope cross in small
but sometimes profound ways. This will be followed by a Q&A with the
director Eric Nazarian, after which a welcome reception will take
place for the film makers and attendees.

On Saturday, May 2, the focus will be French Armenian filmmakers, with
films from Serge Avedikian, Levon Minasian and Varant
Soudjian. Saturday evening programming will conclude with The Mermaid
directed by Ana Melikyan and produced by Robert Dishdishyan. This film
was Russia’s entry for the 2009 Academy Awards.

Sunday afternoon, May 3 will begin with programming for a younger
audience, beginning with 12 short music videos, produced by Armenian
film makers, for the politically aware band System of a Down. The main
feature presentation will be FLOAT, a film by Hrach Titizian shot in
Glendale, CA with Armenian actors.

Sunday night will conclude with the new film Autumn by Ozcan Alper
shown in the Hamshen dialect with subtitles. Autumn tells the tale of
a political prisoner after his release. This debut feature from Alper
has been winning numerous awards.

This year’s festival is sponsored by Alfred Demirjian and
Techfusion.com and programmed by Bianca Bagatourian and Jane Minasian,
mfa.org reports.