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GOLDEN APRICOT: YEREVAN PREPARES FOR 11TH EDITION OF INT'L FILM FESTIVAL
ARTS AND CULTURE | 11.07.14 | 14:40
http://armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/55997/armenia_golden_apricot_festival
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GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
The Golden Apricot international film festival to be launched on
Sunday for the 11th time will turn Yerevan into a week-long huge
cinema making it one of the centers of international cultural events.
On July 13 at St. Grigor the Illuminator church in Yerevan the
festival will officially be launched with the ceremony of 'apricot
blessing'. According to Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan, this is not only
a big event but a holiday for Yerevan. Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Aram
Sukiasyan on Friday told reporters that Golden Apricot contributes
to the officially developed project of making Yerevan a regional
cultural center.
"The Yerevan City Hall organized several initiatives to welcome
world-famous artists whose presence makes us feel responsible and
proud. They take a piece of Yerevan, and its soul with them, contribute
to the Armenian film's development and dissemination," Sukiasyan said,
adding that Yerevan Mayor Margaryan also organized a special meeting.
The deputy mayor informed that at Swan Lake (a man-made pond in
Yerevan) during every festival day at 9:00 pm films participating
in the festival will be shown for the citizens unable to access
the cinemas.
"There are two very good films about Yerevan; people will be able to
purchase those from hotels. They will be able to enter the Yerevan
History Museum at any hour accompanied by multilingual guides,"
Sukiasyan said.
Director of the festival, film director Harutyun Khachatryan said
that the impression the guests will get of Yerevan depends on the
City Hall and these guests, according to Khachatryan, will become the
ambassadors of Armenia in the world telling about Armenian hospitality
and attention.
Khachatryan also said that new programs are beginning in cooperation
with the City Hall and next year in various parts of the city screens
will be placed so that not a single citizen is left out.
"It seems we all have concentrated on the Moscow cinema and, for
instance, those living in Shengavit cannot attend the festival,
we must solve that problem in the nearest future," said the film
director, adding that together with the Yerevan City Hall they have
decided to establish a festival of ethnographic films, which will be
a separate festival, or a branch of Golden Apricot.
ARTS AND CULTURE | 11.07.14 | 14:40
http://armenianow.com/arts_and_culture/55997/armenia_golden_apricot_festival
Photolure
GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
The Golden Apricot international film festival to be launched on
Sunday for the 11th time will turn Yerevan into a week-long huge
cinema making it one of the centers of international cultural events.
On July 13 at St. Grigor the Illuminator church in Yerevan the
festival will officially be launched with the ceremony of 'apricot
blessing'. According to Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan, this is not only
a big event but a holiday for Yerevan. Deputy Mayor of Yerevan Aram
Sukiasyan on Friday told reporters that Golden Apricot contributes
to the officially developed project of making Yerevan a regional
cultural center.
"The Yerevan City Hall organized several initiatives to welcome
world-famous artists whose presence makes us feel responsible and
proud. They take a piece of Yerevan, and its soul with them, contribute
to the Armenian film's development and dissemination," Sukiasyan said,
adding that Yerevan Mayor Margaryan also organized a special meeting.
The deputy mayor informed that at Swan Lake (a man-made pond in
Yerevan) during every festival day at 9:00 pm films participating
in the festival will be shown for the citizens unable to access
the cinemas.
"There are two very good films about Yerevan; people will be able to
purchase those from hotels. They will be able to enter the Yerevan
History Museum at any hour accompanied by multilingual guides,"
Sukiasyan said.
Director of the festival, film director Harutyun Khachatryan said
that the impression the guests will get of Yerevan depends on the
City Hall and these guests, according to Khachatryan, will become the
ambassadors of Armenia in the world telling about Armenian hospitality
and attention.
Khachatryan also said that new programs are beginning in cooperation
with the City Hall and next year in various parts of the city screens
will be placed so that not a single citizen is left out.
"It seems we all have concentrated on the Moscow cinema and, for
instance, those living in Shengavit cannot attend the festival,
we must solve that problem in the nearest future," said the film
director, adding that together with the Yerevan City Hall they have
decided to establish a festival of ethnographic films, which will be
a separate festival, or a branch of Golden Apricot.