Galstyan’s `Bonded Parallels’ in Rotterdam Film Festival

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The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the
line-up for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition. The festival’s 39th
edition runs January 27 – February 7, reports ScreenDaily.com.

The competition, which is open to first and second features, includes
five world premieres and its first contenders from Georgia, Levan
Koguashvili’s Quchis Dgeebi (Street Days), and Costa Rica, Paz
Fabrega’s Agua Fria De Mar (Cold Water of the Sea). The films will
compete for three prizes of $21,525 USD (15,000) and the winners will
be announced on February 5.

IFFR 2010 will open on January 27 with a screening of Park Chan-ok’s
Paju. This year the festival is expecting to play host to about 250
filmmakers, more than 2,500 industry professionals and 350
journalists. The full program will be revealed on January 21.

Hovhannes Galstyan’s Bonded Parallels is also included in this year’s
Bright Future program. According to the festival’s official site:
`This Armenian film tells of forbidden love and its consequences. The
two `bonded parallel’ stories of the film provide a close look at two
different societies in entirely different time frames, and in doing so
bring unexpected historical similarities to the surface.’

The screening of the film in this year’s festival will mark its
European premier.