Hasmik Poghosyan: "Golden Apricot" Film Festival became Armenia's visiting cardJuly 10, 2009 - 18:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Over the past 5 years, "Golden Apricot" 6th International Film Festival, has passed a long way, gaining wide recognition."Every year we look forward to "Golden Apricot" festival, in anticipation of seeing organizers' successive surprise. My colleagues abroad many times expressed interest in the festival. So I can say for sure that "Golden Apricot" has become our successive visiting card," RA Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan said. "If we are known in countries like Laos and Honduras, we can say that 'Golden Apricot' has become one of the best known film festivals," Creative director Susanna Harutyunyan said. "Festival carries out its activities in close cooperation with Culture Ministry. And we are happy to announce that every year we receive more and more claims, with more and more notable cinematographers expressing desire to attend the festival," Harutyun Khachatryan said. 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 | India wants Armenia’s proposals on use of Chabahar port India is expecting proposals from Armenia regarding the use of Chabahar port in Iran, Indian ambassador says. EU welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan “progress” The EU has welcomed “progress” made in the framework of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process. Belarus opposition leader slams Lukashenko for Karabakh trip Belarusian opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has harshly criticized the visit of Lukashenko to Karabakh. Mkhitaryan raises arrest of former Karabakh leaders in Azerbaijan Inter Milan star Henrikh Mkhitaryan has shared a news story about the extension of the arrest of former Karabakh leaders. |