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    GOLDEN APRICOT TO ASSIST DONATE LIFE CHARITY PROJECT

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/728037/golden-apricot-to-assist-donate-life-charity-project.html
    11:45, 2 August, 2013

    YEREVAN, AUGUST 2, ARMENPRESS: The Golden Apricot International Film
    Festival will cooperate with the Donate Life charitable project. As
    Armenpress was reported by the Press Service of the Festival, the
    10th Golden Apricot International Film Festival, held on July 7-14,
    presented about 230 films from 61 countries of the world. 51,000 people
    attended the screenings held in different cinemas and clubs of Yerevan.

    The Festival was broadcast by international media, such as Euranews,
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    "Ð'еÑ~GеÑ~@нÑ~OÑ~O Ð~\оÑ~Aква", "ТÑ~@Ñ~Cд", Art1 Visual
    Daily, "Ð~ZÐ~XÐ~]Ð~^ТÐ~U", Le Courrier d'Erevan, Nouvelle d'Armenie,
    Armenian Weekly, Garoon Monthly, Kino-teatr.ru, "Topic Life", Agence
    France Presse (Tbilisi), Norwegian broadcasting corp. (NRK P2).

    Meetings with some of the honored guests of the Festival were held,
    particularly with the noted documentary filmmaker Godfrey Reggio,
    Margarethe von Trotta, Jos Stelling, etc.

    The young students of the Tumo Center of Creative Technologies were
    provided with the opportunity to meet with Atom Egoyan, Godfrey Reggio,
    Pietro Marchello and Maria Sahakyan.

    On July 9-11 in the framework of the Festival, the 7th regional forum
    "Directors without borders" was held, presenting 13 film projects. The
    main prize of â~B¬5000 was awarded to "Dede" project of Mariam
    Khachvani and Vladimir Kacharava (Georgia). The second prize of
    â~B¬3500 went to Kivanch Sezer and Soner Alper (Turkey) for "Blood
    Money". The third award of â~B¬3500 was granted to Emil Lazarian,
    Hasmik Hovhannisyan and Arevik Avanesyan for the Armenian film project
    "A Song For Nola".

    The legendary Armenian composer and chansonnier Charles Aznavour was
    present at the 10th Golden Apricot International Film Festival held on
    July 7-14 in Yerevan. During the Festival the program of retrospective
    screenings presented the films of Charles Aznavour and the event was
    opened by the Francois Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player" film with
    the participation of the famous singer.

    The 10th Golden Apricot International Film Festival was assisted by
    the Embassies of the United States, Germany, France and Poland to
    the Republic of Armenia, which provided the financial support for
    some of the Festival's programs.

    The Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of
    Armenia John Heffern stated at the meeting with the journalists that
    they were happy to assist the Golden Apricot Festival. John Heffern
    highlighted the fact of assisting the Armenia-Turkey film platform,
    noting that for this year 11 short films and a documentary on the
    subject of the Armenian-Turkish relations reconciliation were prepared.

    The 10th Golden Apricot Yerevan kept the tradition of "Yerevan
    Premieres", "Retrospectives" and "Tributes" out-of-competition
    programs.

    This year 3 special programs were presented: "Georgian Cinema",
    "Sister Festivals" and "Armenians: view from outside and inside".

    "Tributes" celebrated the jubilees of the famous composer Aram
    Khachatryan, and directors Artavazd Peleshyan and Nerses Hovhannisyan,
    with intended retrospectives screenings.

    On Aram Khachatryan's 110th anniversary, in association with the
    museum of the honorable composer, the festival planned an evening,
    dedicated to him. An excursion around the museum and a concert with
    the participation of a trio named after the respective melodist
    were planned for the evening. The following films, where the
    original music is by Khachatryan, were screened: Sonata - Song
    (by Lusine Martirosyan), Othello (by Sergey Yutkevich), Pepo (by
    Hamo Beknazaryan).

    On the 75th anniversary of Artavazd Peleshyan retrospective screenings
    of his films were planned, as well as of Peleshyan's Silence by
    the Italian director Pietro Marcello. Nerses Hovhannisyan's 75th
    anniversary was memorized also with the retrospective screenings of
    his films.

    Krzysztof Zanussi and Godfrey Reggio were among the official guests
    of the Golden Apricot 10th jubilee IFF.

    "Yerevan Premieres" of 10th Golden Apricot included "The girl and
    Death" by Jos Stelling, "Till Night Do Us Part" by Boris Khlebnikov,
    "Hannah Arendt" by Margarethe von Trotta, "The Paradise..." trilogy
    by Ulrich Seidl and "Right to Love" by Paul Kurti. Jos Stelling,
    Margarethe von Trotta were personally present at the festival as
    honorable guests and presented their own films.

    The annually held Golden Apricot International Film Festival was
    established in the capital of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, in
    2004 by the "Golden Apricot" Fund for Cinema Development, the Armenian
    Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists, supported by the
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, the Ministry
    of Culture of Republic of Armenia and Benevolent Fund for Cultural
    Development.


    From: Baghdasarian
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