"Golden Apricot" seventh Yerevan international film festival will be conducted July 11-18 with the support of the Armenian Culture Ministry. An official from the organizational committee of the festival told Armenpress that this year the festival has received nearly 500 applications from 75 countries of the world.
The contest program will maintain the former format; the best films selected from the applications will compete in 3 contest programs - international feature, international documentary films and Armenian panorama. During "Golden Apricot" the anniversaries of film director Henrik Malyan, actors Mher Mkrtchyan, Khoren Abrahamyan, operator Albert Yavuryan and Armen Jigarkhanyan will be celebrated. There are also special programs dedicated to Anri Verno's 90th and Atom Egoyan's 50th anniversaries.
The birthday of honorary chairman of "Golden Apricot", Canadian-Armenian distinguished Director Atom Egoyan will be celebrated just with his participation. The program on Yerevan premieres will be presented in a rich film list, and will show the tapes of "The Classmates" by Sergey Solovyov, "Honey" by chief award winner of Berlin festival Semih Kaplanoglu, "Ward N 6" by K. Shahnazarov, "Mutual Visit" by Polish famous film director K. Zanus, "Cuisine of Spirit" by German distinguished director of Turkish diocese Fatih Akini, "The Inspired" by American Rob Nilson, etc. Retrospective showing of works of renowned directors of the world movie will be held this year, too, and a separate Russian program dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory will be conducted.
