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    10 TIMES BETTER: GOLDEN APRICOT CELEBRATES DECADE OF FILM FESTIVITIES

    http://armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/47596/golden_apricot_film_festival_atom_egoyan_charles_a znavour
    ARTS AND CULTURE | 11.07.13 | 16:24

    NAZIK ARMENAKYAN
    ArmeniaNow

    By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN
    ArmeniaNow reporter

    Golden Apricot Yerevan 10th International Film Festival has turned
    the Armenian capital into one big cinema for one week, where film
    masters visiting from different corners of the world present their
    creations, both features and documentaries.

    Besides the traditional "Yerevan Premiers", "Retrospectives", and
    "Tributes" programs, this year's jubilee edition of the festival
    also features three special programs: "Georgian Film Week",
    "Sister Festivals" and "Armenians: view from inside and outside".

    "Yerevan Premieres" of the 10th Golden Apricot includes the
    Paradise... trilogy by Ulrich Seidl, the first film of which
    Paradise:Love was screened during last year's Golden Apricot and in
    2012 was nominated for the Cannes Festival's Golden Palm (Palm
    d'Or) award; this year's participants are Paradise:Faith and
    Paradise:Hope. The program also features The Girl and Death by Jos
    Stelling from the Netherlands.

    Russian Films Days program has launched with Boris Khlebnikov's Till
    Night Do Us Part. The program is held in cooperation with the Russian
    culture ministry and "Kinofest" production company and will present
    five other films: Celestial Life of the Meadow Mari, I Will be Next
    to You, Intimate Parts, Princess' War and the Major.

    "I am very happy to be in Yerevan to take part in the 10th Golden
    Apricot, it is very symbolic. We have submitted such films that are
    close to our cultures. People in Russia are familiar with the
    Armenian culture and we are very fond of it," says head of the
    RosSotrudnichestvo (Russian Cooperation) representation Victor
    Krivopuskov.

    "Yerevan Premiers" also includes Hannah Arendt (2012) by German
    director Margarethe von Trotta.

    "It is a very touching film telling about a Jewish philosopher of
    German descent Hannah Arendt. She was the great philosopher Martin
    Heidegger's big love, also his disciple, then secretary," says the
    author of the film.

    According to the festival's creative director Susanna Harutyunyan,
    Golden Apricot is regarded as a sister-festival by world-known Busan
    and Rotterdam IFFs. So this year a special program will present films
    from their official selections. The opening will be by Busan festival
    president, Korean actor, director Kim Dong Ho's film. Also, Tamara
    Stepanyan's Embers will be screened, which last year won the Best
    Documentary award in Busan.

    In the festival's International Documentary category Swiss director
    Laurence Perigaud presents his Between Two Spirits, telling about
    human transformations.

    "The main character is Chris who is neither a man nor a woman, but
    feels rather like both, caught between the two sexes. Turning 60 this
    management professor takes courage to do the biggest change of his
    life - a gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, then a year of
    femininity training in Switzerland to complete his transformation
    into a woman," tells the director.

    French Armenian director Arto Pehlivanian's V...for Verneiul presents
    exclusive archive material about prominent director Henri Verneiul's
    life (Armenian name Ashot Malakian).

    "There are no replicas, there was a lot to be said and I think it
    worked. Verneiul's films lead people to a shock, to a new
    intellectual platform. He was a greatest of masters to me," says the
    film director.

    World-famous singer, song writer, actor Charles Aznavour's star has
    been placed in the square named after him. The "Retrospectives"
    include three films with Aznavour starring in them: Ararat (Atom
    Egoyan, 2002), Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, 1960) and
    Taxi for Tobruk (Denys de la Patelliere, 1961).

    In the days to follow "Parajanov Thaler" awards will be granted to
    Margarette von Trotta, Istvan Szabo, Nerses Hovhannissyan and Jos
    Stelling at special events of Jubilees and Yerevan Premieres. Many of
    the guests have agreed to hold Master Classes as part of the
    Festival.

    The jubilee edition of Golden Apricot has received 1,200 applications
    for participation from 94 countries (vs 67 in 2012). Aram
    Khachaturian's 110th, Nerses Hovhannissyan's 75th and Artavazd
    Peleshyan's 75th anniversaries are part of the "Tributes" program.

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