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GOLDEN APRICOT: FESTIVAL IN NINTH YEAR INCLUDES SPECIAL AWARD FROM CHURCH
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
13.07.12
Catholicos of All Armenians awarding Sokurov with "Yeghitsi Luys"
at Holy Echmiadzin.
This year for the first time in the history of Golden Apricot
International Film Festival the Armenian Apostolic Church has designed
an award, which was given to a Russian film director on Thursday.
Golden Apricot, launched last Sunday, is one of the most important
cultural events in Yerevan, a weeklong annual festival that gathers
filmmakers, film masters and simply film fans throughout the world
for the ninth year.
The film festival is presenting a total of 170 feature, short feature
films and documentaries, with 65 of them included in the competition
program.
The fifth day of this year's festival was distinguished by the ceremony
presenting the 'Yeghitsi Luys' (Let There Be Light) award, designed
by the Armenian Apostolic Church. In the ceremonies hall of Gevorkian
Theological Seminary of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin Catholicos
of All Armenians His Holiness Karekin II presented the Church's award
to Alexander Sokurov for his propaganda of spiritual, cultural and
humanitarian values as well as for his significant contribution to
the world cinematography.
And in the evening the Yerevan première of Sokurov's film "Faust"
took place in Moscow Cinema's full hall.
Prizes at the ninth edition of the Golden Apricot will be in four
sections - feature films, documentaries, short films, and Armenian
films (Armenian Panorama).
Diaspora Armenian filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian's 'Grandma's Tattoos'
film was presented within the framework of the festival, with which
she reveals the veil of thousands of forgotten Armenian women,
who survived the Armenian Genocide in 1915 but were forced into
prostitution and were tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.
The film was premièred last September in Stockholm and was shown
in a number of countries in the world. And in January, 'Grandma's
Tattoos' was being broadcast on 'Al Jazeera English' TV channel for
a whole week.
However, probably the most impressive and exciting moment of Golden
Apricot was on Wednesday when a holy mass was served in one of churches
in Yerevan to commemorate three masters of world cinematography -
Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Golden Apricot festival will last until Sunday.
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
13.07.12
Catholicos of All Armenians awarding Sokurov with "Yeghitsi Luys"
at Holy Echmiadzin.
This year for the first time in the history of Golden Apricot
International Film Festival the Armenian Apostolic Church has designed
an award, which was given to a Russian film director on Thursday.
Golden Apricot, launched last Sunday, is one of the most important
cultural events in Yerevan, a weeklong annual festival that gathers
filmmakers, film masters and simply film fans throughout the world
for the ninth year.
The film festival is presenting a total of 170 feature, short feature
films and documentaries, with 65 of them included in the competition
program.
The fifth day of this year's festival was distinguished by the ceremony
presenting the 'Yeghitsi Luys' (Let There Be Light) award, designed
by the Armenian Apostolic Church. In the ceremonies hall of Gevorkian
Theological Seminary of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin Catholicos
of All Armenians His Holiness Karekin II presented the Church's award
to Alexander Sokurov for his propaganda of spiritual, cultural and
humanitarian values as well as for his significant contribution to
the world cinematography.
And in the evening the Yerevan première of Sokurov's film "Faust"
took place in Moscow Cinema's full hall.
Prizes at the ninth edition of the Golden Apricot will be in four
sections - feature films, documentaries, short films, and Armenian
films (Armenian Panorama).
Diaspora Armenian filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian's 'Grandma's Tattoos'
film was presented within the framework of the festival, with which
she reveals the veil of thousands of forgotten Armenian women,
who survived the Armenian Genocide in 1915 but were forced into
prostitution and were tattooed to distinguish them from the locals.
The film was premièred last September in Stockholm and was shown
in a number of countries in the world. And in January, 'Grandma's
Tattoos' was being broadcast on 'Al Jazeera English' TV channel for
a whole week.
However, probably the most impressive and exciting moment of Golden
Apricot was on Wednesday when a holy mass was served in one of churches
in Yerevan to commemorate three masters of world cinematography -
Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Golden Apricot festival will last until Sunday.