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    THIS YEAR DOCUMENTARIES PREVAIL IN GOLDEN APRICOT'S ARMENIAN PANORAMA
    CONTEST PROGRAM

    NOYAN TAPAN
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=115712
    JU LY 17

    Four young Armenian-based and Diasporan directors taking part in
    Golden Apricot's Armenian Panorama contest program spoke about their
    films and festival at the July 17 meeting with journalists.

    Introducing one Armenian-based and three Diasporan cinematographic
    figures, Mikayel Stamboltsian, programs director of the Golden Apricot
    (Voske Tsiran) 5th International Film Festival, said that this year
    fiction films are few in the Armenian Panorama contest program and
    instead the number of documentaries is unprecedentedly large.

    French Armenian Varant and Khazhak Soudjian brothers take part in the
    documentary film genre contest in Golden Apricot, presenting the films
    The Second Wind and July in Ltchap. They take part in this Yerevan
    festival for the first time and hope that it will not be be the last
    one. Soudjian brothers' films tell about life and human relationship
    revealing the fates and individuals, who are usually unnoticeable.

    The Second Wind is Varant's third film in this genre. It is
    about a young pickpocket, whose last adventure becomes fatal and
    turning. Khazhak Soudjian has shot his 18-minute film July in Ltchap
    for both Armenian-based and Diasporan Armenians. "I tried to present
    real Armenia for everybody," the author said. The village of Ltchap
    near Sevan has appeared in a grave situation after the collapse of
    Soviet system: the young director made an attempt to bring to light
    village's real picture.

    Problems of loneliness and lack of communication in Western Armenian
    society are raised in the fiction film The Blue Hour of American-based
    Erik Nazarian. Erik Nazarian was born in Armenia, but moved to the
    U.S. at the age of 4. He graduated from the Cinema and Television
    School of South Californian University. Before that the young
    director had shot 4 films. The Blue Hour film is his first fiction
    work. It is about people living on the bank of Los Angeles river,
    who do not communicate with each other in any language and the only
    thing connecting them is the river. The film is about four different
    families, who appeared in loneliness and lack of communication. "One
    of them communicates with its memory, the other with a picture, the
    next with silence. People have become alien to each other and become
    detached. It is a universal pain. In the era of high technologies
    human relationship takes place in different ways except the human one,"
    the author said.

    The 24-minute film 36 Immortals by Yerevan-based doctor Hrachya
    Vardanian is also interesting. The author is convinced that the
    Armenian alphabet created at a fatal moment is more endangered today,
    as worship of foreign things has become an idol for everyone and
    everywhere.
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