By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, April 4 – One of the biggest film festivals of the region the International Istanbul Film Festival will be held in Turkey on April 2-17. This year there are 200 new movies included in the program. According to Susanna Harutyunian, one of the managers of “Golden Apricot” Armenia, the premieres of [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, August 25–The organizers of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in the Republic of Armenia are likely to bring an action against Turkey, since the country announced it was going to organize a film festival with the same name. On August 20, the Turkish newspaper Milliyet wrote that an international film festival [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, July 19–On July 18, the seventh annual Golden Apricot International Film Festival concluded. The closing ceremony and the award presentation took place at the Moscow Cinema in Yerevan. The festival had received about 500 films, and 120 of them were chosen and shown during the festival, being judged by five international [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, July 14–The South Korean film director Lee Chang-don has come to Armenia to take part in the seventh annual Golden Apricot International Film Festival with his film, “Poetry.” “My first visit to Armenia was three years ago, when a retrospective of my work took place. I saw the Armenian audience was [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, July 14– According to German film director of Turkish descent, Fatih Akin, the Armenian-Turkish conflict is based on fear. Akin is a 37-year old filmmaker born in Hamburg, whose name is famous not only in Germany. Akin arrived in Armenia to take part in the Golden Apricot International Film Festival where [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, July 13–The famous Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has come to Yerevan within the framework of the seventh annual Golden Apricot International Film Festival. She was present at the opening ceremony of the festival on Sunday night together with Patrik Malakyan–the son of Henri Verneuil–and the famous French film director of Armenian [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, July 8–The seventh annual Golden Apricot International Film Festival, which will take place in Yerevan on July 11-18, will once again highlight the role of Armenians in French cinema, said Jean-Paul Martin, the Adviser on Cultural Affairs and Cooperation of the Embassy of France in Armenia, Novosti-Armenia reports. The famous film by Henri Verneuil, [...]
