  GAIFF winners announced  July 19, 2010 - 13:31 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The closing ceremony of the 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival was held in Moscow Cinema on July 17, the Festival’s official website reports. International Feature Competition: Golden Apricot for the Best Feature Film went to the Turkish director Reha Erdem for the film Kosmos. Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film went to Sergey Loznitsa for the film My Joy. International Documentary Competition: Golden Apricot for the Best Documentary Film went to Pavel Kostomarov for the film Together. Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film to Vadim Jendreyko for the film The Woman with Five Elephants. Armenian Panorama Competition: Golden Apricot for the Best Armenian Film went to Arman Yeritsyan and Inna Sahakyan for the film The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia, Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian Film went to Comes Chahbazian for the film Down Here. Special Mention to Nikolay Davtyan for the film Uncle Valya. FPRESCI Jury Award went to Jasmila Zbanic for the film On the Path. Ecumenical Jury Award went to Suren Babayan for the film Don’t Look in the Mirror, and the Special Recommendation to Aleksei Popogrebsky for the film How I Ended This Summer. Hrant Matevosyan Prize went to Marat Sargsyan for the short film Lernavan, which also received the Best Short Film Award by the British Council Armenia.   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 Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan  A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia.U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel.Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |
