 28 17.05.12 - 65th Festival De Cannes. Day 1                                  Armenian pavilion opened at Cannes Film Festival  May 17, 2012 - 17:55 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian pavilion has opened at 65th Cannes Film Festival. According to spokesperson of Armenian National Film Center Ruzanna Bagratunyan, the pavilion will operate until May 25. Armenian delegation is headed by Film Center director Gevorg Gevorgyan. The pavilion features about 15 film projects, scripts and incomplete movies. Film directors Hovhannes Galstyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Armen Ronov and representatives of Hayk film studio are currently in Cannes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 65th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, May 16 night with the world premiere of Wes Anderson's quirky summer camp love story Moonrise Kingdom, following a star-powered opening night ceremony. Anderson and the film’s cast – Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton,Edward Norton, Bill Murray plus child stars Jared Gilmanand Kara Hayward hiked up the famous red carpet steps of Cannes' Palais. This year too, PanARMENIAN Photo reporter Vahan Stepanyan will cover the whole course of the festival from start to finish through photos and interesting materials.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Topic Latest news Turkey extends military presence in Azerbaijan  The Turkish parliament has adopted a bill submitted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extend the mandate of Turkish troops.Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skillsArmenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi ArabiaPashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”. |
