Taiwanese Film Director Receives Golden Apricot Grand Prix

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.07.2006 17:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Taiwanese film director Hou Hsiao-Hsien received the
grand prix of the Golden Apricot Third International Film Festival
for "Three Times" film. "Legend of Time" by Spanish film director
Isaak Lokust and "Return to Armenia" by French film director Robert
Gudiguian shared the second place.

"Worker’s Death" shot by Austrian film director Michael Glavoger won
the award for best documentary. The second prize went to Brazilian
Markus Pradu ("Estamira") and Swedish Gunar Bergrdal ("Ludmila and
Anatoly").

The documentary "Residents of Forgotten Island" by Armenian film
director Hrant Hakobian received the first award in the Armenian
Panorama nomination.

Honorary guests of the festival – Armenian film director Artavazd
Peleshian, well known Italian film director Marco Bellocchio, Iranian
cinematographer Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, U.S. documentalist Godfrey Reggio
and outstanding screen writer Tonino Guerra -were handed Parajanov’s
awards for contribution to the development of world cinematography.