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A Tribute to Harutyun Khachatryan in Moscow

A special tribute was paid to the head of Golden Apricot international film festival, director Harutyun Khachatryan showing his 7 films in the retrospective program of 31st Moscow international film festival. These films were “White Town”, “Return to the Promised Land”, “Return of the Poet”, “Border”, “Documentarist”, “Kond” and “Last Station”.

The opening of the retrospectives was held on July 22 in “Oktyabr” cinema, where a number of filmmakers, journalists and artists were present, as well as Russia’s embassador of Armenia in Armen Smbatyan. The opening speech was made by the festival program director Kirill Razlogov. That day “Border” by Harutyun Khachatryan was featured, which has already received 2 significant prizes during this year.

Following the opening a special reception was held in the embassy of Armenia in Russia, where the famous film critic, the president of the international federation of film critics, FIPRESCI, Andrei Plakhov made a greeting speech. In the catalogue of Moscow film festival Andrei Plakhov wrote. “The work of Harutyun Khachatryan is an example of pure cinematic form and this form helps the Armenian director to express the acute and cruel contradictions of the contemporary world”.

Up to now only 2 Armenian directors, Sergej Parajanov and Atravazd Peleshyan have had the retrospective screenings of their films in any festival. Moscow film festival has put the screenings of Harutyun Khachartyan’s films among the retrospectives of world-known directors such as Jerzy Skolimowski and Marco Ferreri.

CONGRATULATIONS

The American premiere of Harutyun Khachatryan’s film, “Border”, took place during the 42nd Hyuston film festival on April 17-26. “Border” was nominated for the REMI awards of the festival and took the Platinum award. Then “Border” participated in the Syracuse film festival, and was awarded “The Best Feature Documentary” prize.