ARMENIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS

Tert
Oct 29 2009
Armenia

A film festival featuring Armenian films will run from October 22 to
November 4, 2009, at The Hague (Den Haag) in the Netherlands.

The Abovian Armenian Cultural Association (based in the Netherlands)
and Filmhuis Den Haag aim to present Armenian Cinema to the public
with a selection of eighteen feature films, documentaries, shorts,
classics, and experimental films, both from Armenia as well as from the
Diaspora. The festival opened on October 22 with a screening of Sergei
Parajanov’s forty years old The Colour of Pomegranates ("Nran Guiny").

The festival is realized thanks to the efforts of the National Cinema
Centre of Armenia, the Fifth Golden Apricot Yerevan International
Film Festival and with the assistance of the newly opened Armenian
Consulate in the Netherlands.

The festival line-up includes Don Askarian’s Komitas, Rouben
Mamoulian’s The Golden Age of Broadway and Hollywood, Albert
Mkrtchian’s Merry Bus, Atom Egoyan’s Calendar, Harutyun Khachatryan’s
Sahman ("Border"), Aram Shahbazian’s Akner ("Wheels"), Erik Nazarian’s
The Blue Hour and others.