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OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES OF "GOLDEN APRICOT" FILM FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE ON LIBERTY SQUARE
By R. Pogosian
AZG Armenian Daily
07/07/2007
The Fourth International "Golden Apricot" Film Festival is remarkable
with the fact that the opening ceremony is to be held on the Liberty
Square of Yerevan, July 9. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 10:00
PM and the first film is to be demonstrated right there. Commissions
of FIPRESCI and the International Organization of Churches shall take
part in the festival. Retrospective demonstrations of films by Leos
Karaks, Li Chang-Dong, Frunze Dovlatian and Yuri Yerznkian shall take
place. A part of the festival shall be dedicated to the newest French
films and another, which is called "Europe-2006", shall be dedicated
to the Lars von Trier's "Inner Empire" and Steven Freeze's "The Queen"
On a press conference at Yerevan hotel director of the festival
Haroutiun Khachatrian informed that VivaCell Company provides for
AMD 2 000 000 award for the festival's grand prix and AMD 1 000 000
award for the winners of the "Armenian Panorama" and "International
Documentary Film" contests. A new award - "Tree of Life" with AMD
500 000 is also established this year.
The organizers of the festival provide the students and culture workers
the opportunity of attending 20-30 film demonstrations for free.
"AZG" daily, as one of the information sponsors of the festival,
through July 9-14 shall be published with a special appendix, providing
detailed information on all festival events, films, etc.
By R. Pogosian
AZG Armenian Daily
07/07/2007
The Fourth International "Golden Apricot" Film Festival is remarkable
with the fact that the opening ceremony is to be held on the Liberty
Square of Yerevan, July 9. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 10:00
PM and the first film is to be demonstrated right there. Commissions
of FIPRESCI and the International Organization of Churches shall take
part in the festival. Retrospective demonstrations of films by Leos
Karaks, Li Chang-Dong, Frunze Dovlatian and Yuri Yerznkian shall take
place. A part of the festival shall be dedicated to the newest French
films and another, which is called "Europe-2006", shall be dedicated
to the Lars von Trier's "Inner Empire" and Steven Freeze's "The Queen"
On a press conference at Yerevan hotel director of the festival
Haroutiun Khachatrian informed that VivaCell Company provides for
AMD 2 000 000 award for the festival's grand prix and AMD 1 000 000
award for the winners of the "Armenian Panorama" and "International
Documentary Film" contests. A new award - "Tree of Life" with AMD
500 000 is also established this year.
The organizers of the festival provide the students and culture workers
the opportunity of attending 20-30 film demonstrations for free.
"AZG" daily, as one of the information sponsors of the festival,
through July 9-14 shall be published with a special appendix, providing
detailed information on all festival events, films, etc.