Movie festival in Armenia

RIA Novosti, Russia
July 17 2005

YEREVAN, July 17 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) – The second
international movie festival Golden Apricot-2005 is closing in
Armenia’s capital Yerevan Sunday.

The festival under the motto On the Crossroads of Civilizations and
Cultures included contests for feature films and documentaries shot
in 2004-2005.

Fifteen full-length movies from 13 countries, including France,
Russia, Britain, China, Argentina, the Netherlands and Latvia were
presented. Well-known film directors and critics, including Claude
Miller from France and Deborah Young from the U.S. were on the jury
headed by Atom Egoyan, Canadian director of Armenian extraction.

Armenian movies were presented in a special contest program Armenian
panorama, with 29 feature, documentary and animation cinematographers
participating.

Overall, 140 films form 45 countries were presented at the festival.
Master classed, jazz concerts and art expositions were held at the
festival.

The Armenian government allocated some $56,800 for the festival. The
first such event took place last year in Yerevan on June 30-July 4.
Fifty-five movies from 16 countries were shown then.