Fanny Ardant is Guest at Golden Apricot
July 8, 2011 19:37
During the last press-conference before the opening of the Golden Apricot Film Festival, the Director of the Festival Harutyun Khachatryan announced the surprising news: “The last gift, that we would like to present you before the start of the Festival, is the visit of my beloved and, I am sure, your beloved, outstanding actress Fanny Ardant. We are inviting you to meet with her before the opening ceremony of the festival on July 10 at 1 p.m. in the Red Hall of Moscow Cinema”.
It was also mentioned, that the two films directed by Fanny Ardant, “Cendres et sang” and “Chimères absentes”, will be shown on July 11 in Moscow Cinema.
Harutyun Khachatryan emphasized particularly the importance of the program “Cinema of CIS countries – 20 years independent”. Due to the support of the CIS Humanitarian Foundation films of almost all the countries of the Commonwealth, including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine will be shown in the frames of this program.
“Thanks to the support of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Foundation a number of directors were invited and there will be shown 11 films. The cooperation of the Festival with CIS Humanitarian Foundation has created the opportunity to invite Russian cinema critics and journalists, who are covering the work of the festival” – Harutyun Khachatryan added.
Speaking about the same program, the artistic director of the festival Susanna Harutyunyan mentioned, that films from CIS countries could not have been included into the program of the festival before because of financial problems.
“The flight tickets are very expensive and only due to the support of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Foundation it became possible to invite the directors and to show these films in Yerevan,” – said Susanna Harutyunyan. She added as well, that in the frames of the festival the representatives of CIS countries will participate in a round-table meeting.
The 8th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will be held from 10-17th July due to its loyal partners: the general sponsor VivaCell – MTS and the support of the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Armenia.
