The 12th International Films Festival "Golden Apricot" will take place in Yerevan on July 12-19.
"Golden Apricot" projects coordinator Raffi Movsisyan told ArmInfo, a special project dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide would be implemented within the framework of this year's festival. Fiction and documentary films on the 1915 tragedy, as well as other genocides will be screened at the event. According to Movsisyan, directors of the films to be screened have already been invited to the festival.
It is planned to hold a round table within the framework of the programme at Genocide museum-institute. Issues of representing historic facts via cinematography will be discussed during the round table. Movsisyan did not exclude the possibility of publishing a collection of the participants' opinions.
All in all, almost 30 films are included in the programme of the Armenian Genocide centennial. A 24- minute intact clip from the Hollywood silent film "Ravished Armenia" is to be screened at the event. The film was shot by Oscar Apfel in 1919.
The first performance of the film "A Story of a Madman" by French director of Armenian descent Robert Gedikian is quite possible to be held. "Golden Apricot" will also present its traditional programme to the audience. The programme includes retrospective reviews of famous directors, master-classes, "Yerevan Premiers". Winners will be awarded in the categories "Fiction Film", "Documentary", "Armenian Panorama" and <Apricot Stone". April 15 is the deadline of the submission of applications for the participation in the festival.
To remind, last year the film "The Tribe" by Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy was awarded the "Golden Apricot" and FIPRESCI prizes. The film "Stone River" by Giovanni Donfrancesco (Italy-France) received the award "The Best Film" in the category "Documentary".
The film "Tevanik" by Jivan Avetisyan was recognized the best fiction film in the programme "Armenian Panorama". "Milk Brother" by Vahram Mkhitaryan became the best short fiction film. The film "Though I Know the River is Dry" by Omar Robert Hamilton (Palestine-Egypt-Qatar-Great Britain) received the "Apricot Stone" award.