19:51 . 15/06
The 9th Golden Apricot International Film Festival will start on July 8 in Yerevan. More than 1,100 applications were received from 70 countries this year. Spanish well-known film director Victor Erice will be chair the jury.
The 4 traditional competitions will be retained: they are feature, documentary, “Armenian Panorama” and “Stone”. On the occasion of declaring Armenia a capital of book a new project titled “Book and Film” was introduced, which will include movies based on Armenian and world classic works.
Once again the forum Directors Without Borders will be organized. It is planned to organize a course called Cinema Journalists Without Borders. The organizers of the festival again face difficulties because of the lack of cinema houses and halls like in the previous years.
“We are limited in terms of premises, the halls are few, we are even trying not to increase the number of the films. If it increases independent of us, we appear in a difficult situation. It is also natural, no spectator can watch 150 films in 7 days. Therefore, we are trying to organize everything so that anyone can find something corresponding to his/her taste and preferences,” the Festival Program Director Mikayel Stamboltsyan said.
