Georgian pic “Blind Dates” wins Zagreb Film Festival October 28, 2014 - 14:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Levan Koguashvili’s “Blind Dates” won the top prize at the Zagreb Film Festival, an international festival showing filmmakers’ first or second films in its competition program, according to Variety. The Georgian pic won for its “simplicity, originality, reliance on excellent scriptwriting, moving performance by the actors and humanity of all the characters.” The winner for documentary film was Slovenian road movie “Karpotrotter,” in which its director Matjaz Ivanisin revisits the places once visited by the Yugoslav Black Wave director Karpo Godina. The recent Venice winner, “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Reflecting on Existence” by Swedish director Roy Andersson, closed the festival. Related links:   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 |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
