Golden “Apricot Stone”
June 24, 2011 16:02
“Golden Apricot” 8th Yerevan Film Festival has a new competition program, “Apricot Stone,” which includes short films. Today during the press conference the organizers of the competition program film directors Aram Shahbazyan, Vardan Hakobyan, Gagik Ghazare, Lusine Sargsyan and script writer Astghik Simonyan presented the selected films and the jury members.
“Golden Apricot” gives the young filmmakers the opportunity to fulfill their ideas, express their own requirements and standards for selecting films and also make their own voting under this new competition title. Through the films shown in the “Apricot Stone” the young coordinators tried to understand “tomorrow’s“cinema with the genre differences.
135 film submissions have been received, 25 out of which from 18 countries were selected for the competition. Thierry Lenouvel (France) is invited to be the Jury President of the program. The other jury members are: Olga Shervud famous film experts (Russia) and Garine Torossian Canadian-Armenian film director.
The following films are included in the “Apricot Stone” competition program:
“Via Gori,” George Barbakadze, Australia
“I Could Be Your Grandmother,” Bernard Tanguy, France
“It’s a Long Way Home,” Gregory Rentis, USA/Greece
“Glasgow,” Piotr Subbotko, Poland
“Return,” Harri J. Rantala, Finland
“The Piano Tuner,” Olivier Treiner, France
“Slugs,” Maria Lundqvist, Sweden
“Awaiting Her,” James Joint, Honduras
“Story of Nobody,” Manfredi Lucibello, Italy
“Ambitious,” Ainur Askarov, Russia
“Laaf,” Loic Tanson, Thierry Besseling, Luxemburg
“On the Other Side,” Livia Coullias Blanc, France
“Mephisto,” Laurence Vaissiere, France
“Peter Grass is Dead Twice,” Jean-Jacques Cunnac, France
“Flower Dance,” Lusine Sargsyan, Armenia
“The Baby,” Mohammadreza Hajipour, Portugal
“Bycicle,” Serhat Karaaslan, Turkey
“Lighthearted Boy,” Marco Gianfreda, Italy
“Waiting,” Jow Zhi Wei, Singapore
“Wingled Illusion,” Tatev Isakhanyan, Armenia
“Galata,” Diana Kardumyan, Armenia/Turkey
“Morning, Noon, Evening…and Morning,” Gayaneh Jiji, France/Syria
“Lemonary,” Vasiliy Fenin, Russia
“Sea of Desires,” Shota Gamisonia, Russia
“Hotel Chambord,” Dorothée Baert, Belgium
“L’or blanc,” Adama Salle, Morroco
Golden Apricot 8th Yerevan International Film Festival is going to be held from July 10-17, 2011, thanks to the faithful partners VivaCell MTS corporation, as a general sponsor and the Ministry of Culture as a state support.
