Aysor, Armenia
March 26 2010

`Every time being in Armenia I feel at home’

The Dutch film director Yos Stelling is in Armenia. He has come to our
country for giving master classes in the film school of `Golden
Apricot’.

Today on the meeting with the journalists he said that he is for the
3rd time in Yerevan, he remembers his room and everything that was in
Armenia: `I feel I return home every time when I am in Armenia and not
to another country.’

He remembered that it was on his first visit that he had given the
idea of producing apricot bear, but he also mentioned that nobody took
serious his idea. Today he reminded about his suggestion once again.

By the request of the journalists Steling touched upon the importance
and the real meaning of the movie. The Dutch director is sure that the
films play a big role in the development of the country.

The movie as Steling described is a piece of reality. At first you
should realize how important the movie is for the nation and for the
state, and only then you should pass on shooting a film.

In the frameworks of the `Golden Apricot’ festival the director has
presented to the Armenian audience his film called `Dushenka’. The
shootings of the next film of Yos Steling will start in coming fall.
However Steling predicted that the audience should wait for two years
for the next film.

`I shoot films in a very long period. This film is a joint film
together with Russia, Belgium, Holland and Germany, and is called `The
girl and the death’. The action goes on in a hotel, it is about love,
about something you can’t have, it is about everything,’ explained
Steling.

Yos Steling is born in 1945 in Netherlands, in Utrecht city. He amazed
every one by his first film which was included in the Cannes film
festival.