The organizers of the 13th edition of the International Film Festival of Armenia Golden Apricot Yerevan presented on July 6 programming in collaboration with several diplomatic missions and international organizations in Armenia. The best French, Russian and British films will be presented as part of this festival. In cooperation with the British Council in Armenia, the Apricot Festival d’Or and will present a special program dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. The best films, adapting it to the screen the works of the English playwright, or inspired by, and naturally find their place in this festival.

Furthermore, in cooperation with the Embassy of France in Armenia, the festival will present three iconic films of the “New French Cinema”. The program will be inaugurated by the latest film by Pierre Léon, Two Remi, two (2015). The “new Danish film” will also be on show at the festival in cooperation with the Danish Film Institute. The program will showcase the best Danish films of the last five years, including “The City” (2015) by director Thomas Winterberg, which will open this special page dedicated to Danish film.

The Europe of the regions has also its place in the Armenian festival with a selection of the “new Basque cinema”, illustrated by the films of four Basque filmmakers, including “An Autumn without Berlin (2015) Lara Izagirre, who will inaugurate the program . The 13th International Film Festival of Armenia Golden Apricot Yerevan to begin July 10 with the screening of a classic of the Armenian cinema, Zareh film director Hamo Beknazaryan. It will conclude on July 17 with the award ceremony of Golden Apricot awarded to the best films and actors.

Friday, July 8, 2016,
Gari © armenews.com

By Sara Khojoyan
ArmeniaNow reporter

This year for the 12th time Yerevan will host a Golden Apricot International Film Festival, which will take place from July 12 to 19.

The main program of the festival, besides the traditional four nominations, will be full of extra-competition nominations; two of them on the topic of the Genocide.

Films telling about the Armenian Genocide will be represented in the nomination We Exist, and works telling about genocides in the world – in the nomination Never Again, Mikayel Stambultsyan, program manager of the festival, told reporters.

“We have two big good projects: New French Film and New German Film, which are quite abundant and new names will be presented,” Stambultsyan said.

The festival this year will be special considering the cooperation with the project Film Directors Without Limits, which is held together with the Ministry of Culture; it will host Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Culture from other countries, Armenian Deputy Minister of Culture Artur Poghosyan said.

“Golden Apricot is the International Festival which has become a symbol of our culture during these years,” he said adding that the Festival is the most well-known and the most popular visit-card of the Armenian culture in the world.

The annually increasing number of application for participation in the festival is a proof to this. This year the organizers of the festival received 1,600 applications from 105 countries (in 2014 1500 applications from 95 countries were received).

“Annually the number of presented films and participating countries increases. This year we received applications from African and Latin American countries,” Syuzanna Harutyunyan, the artistic director of the festival said.

“Film artists from the whole world send applications and express desire to come and participate, recognize Armenia, get to know to Armenian film and present their films here,” she added.

Armenia Presentation of the Film Festival “Golden Apricot” Yerevan

Golden Apricot: Armenia to host 12th edition of int’l film festival next month