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Golden Apricot: Artists and movie lovers get ready for Film Festival opening
Arts and Culture | 25.06.10 | 15:42
Film festival organizers say opening ceremonies will not clash with
the World Cup final
By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Famous Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, 72, will visit Armenia to
attend the show of Henri Verneuil's Mayrig (Mother) film which will
open the seventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival, in
Yerevan July 11-18. (The revered actress stars in the film as a female
lead - the mother.)
Mayrig is one of the best known films telling about the survivors of
the Ottoman-era genocide of Armenians and their descendants in France.
This year marks the 90th birthday anniversary of the film's director
French-Armenian Henri Verneuil and it has been decided to launch this
year's festival with his movie.
Golden Apricot 2010 will be distinguished with Yerevan premieres of
nine films from Germany, Poland, Russia, France, and other countries.
The tickets will be priced 300 drams (less than a dollar) like it was
during previous years, but the festival got other financial problems.
`If during previous years to get the right to show a film cost
$240-360, then this year we paid three times as much,' Tatevik
Manukyan, head of the international section of the festival, told
ArmeniaNow.
This year, along with negative surprises, there will also be some
positive news at the festival. For the first time, a `Jazz-Film'
contest for jazz bands will be held in Yerevan's central Charles
Aznavour Square, in front of Moscow Cinema. It will be led by
well-known Armenian jazzman Levon Malkhasyan. Contest participants
will get money prizes; the total prize fund will be $6,000.
This year, after 11:00 p.m., films will be shown at Lovers' Park, a
favorite leisure spot for the city's youths. These shows will be
called `Yerevan Nights at Lovers' Park'.
The July 11 opening of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival
will coincide with two other major events impacting the rhythm of life
in Armenia - the soccer World Cup final and closing ceremony, and
Vardavar, a popular Armenian festival with a religious background
during which people go on a water-splashing spree. The film festival
organizers say cinema-goers and guests of the festival may only get
drenched on this day, but those of them keen on soccer will have at
least half an hour to get to their TV screens in time for the kick-off
as Golden Apricot's opening ceremony will finish at 11:00 pm.
From: A. Papazian
Arts and Culture | 25.06.10 | 15:42
Film festival organizers say opening ceremonies will not clash with
the World Cup final
By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Famous Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, 72, will visit Armenia to
attend the show of Henri Verneuil's Mayrig (Mother) film which will
open the seventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival, in
Yerevan July 11-18. (The revered actress stars in the film as a female
lead - the mother.)
Mayrig is one of the best known films telling about the survivors of
the Ottoman-era genocide of Armenians and their descendants in France.
This year marks the 90th birthday anniversary of the film's director
French-Armenian Henri Verneuil and it has been decided to launch this
year's festival with his movie.
Golden Apricot 2010 will be distinguished with Yerevan premieres of
nine films from Germany, Poland, Russia, France, and other countries.
The tickets will be priced 300 drams (less than a dollar) like it was
during previous years, but the festival got other financial problems.
`If during previous years to get the right to show a film cost
$240-360, then this year we paid three times as much,' Tatevik
Manukyan, head of the international section of the festival, told
ArmeniaNow.
This year, along with negative surprises, there will also be some
positive news at the festival. For the first time, a `Jazz-Film'
contest for jazz bands will be held in Yerevan's central Charles
Aznavour Square, in front of Moscow Cinema. It will be led by
well-known Armenian jazzman Levon Malkhasyan. Contest participants
will get money prizes; the total prize fund will be $6,000.
This year, after 11:00 p.m., films will be shown at Lovers' Park, a
favorite leisure spot for the city's youths. These shows will be
called `Yerevan Nights at Lovers' Park'.
The July 11 opening of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival
will coincide with two other major events impacting the rhythm of life
in Armenia - the soccer World Cup final and closing ceremony, and
Vardavar, a popular Armenian festival with a religious background
during which people go on a water-splashing spree. The film festival
organizers say cinema-goers and guests of the festival may only get
drenched on this day, but those of them keen on soccer will have at
least half an hour to get to their TV screens in time for the kick-off
as Golden Apricot's opening ceremony will finish at 11:00 pm.
From: A. Papazian