Golden Apricot on wheels to take place in ArtsakhAugust 11, 2009 - 18:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The International Film Festival Golden Apricot will visit Artsakh for the third time. Best movies of the Golden Apricot 6-th International Film Festival will be screened again in the framework of the "Golden Apricot on wheels" in Stepanakert and Shushi between 19 and 23 of August. "Inhabitants of Armenian regions have few opportunities to watch real cinema since cinema halls were sold to restaurants, and today the only way of watching movies is through television," Harutyun Khachatryan, director and founder of the Golden Apricot festival said. Dwellers of Karabakh will watch the films, winners of this year: "The other bank" by Georgi Ovashvili, "Boundary" documentary by Harutyun Khachatryan, "Autumn" by Ozcan Alper, "Vandals of the 21-th century" by Ashot Movsisyan and Spartak Gharabaghtsyan. "Mainly Armenian and Russian films will be screened in Artsakh, "Ara Khanjian, deputy director of Golden Apricot told a press conference in Yerevan today. According to him, Armenian films, as well as movies and cartoons for children are in brisk demand in the Armenian regions. Ara Khanjian added, that the "Golden Apricot on wheels" will be opened with screening of the masterpiece of Sergei Paradjanov "Color of pomegranate", not only because of its 40th anniversary but also to fulfill numerous requests of Artsakh people in recent years. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. 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”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |