Serge Avedikian to present new film about Istanbul stray dogs next yearJuly 13, 2010 - 16:00 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - French-Armenian filmmaker Serge Avedikian said that currently he is completing the work at a new documentary on stray dogs of Istanbul. “This is my second film about dogs,” Avedikian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. The first one – Chienne D'histoire (Barking Island), which won the Best Short Film prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, will be featured during ReAnimania festival this year. According to Avedikian, the second film telling about the same dogs in 100 years, and the film will be presented in 2011. “I wanted to show people the way dogs see them, as well as to present the established traditions and complex relations between people and dogs in the film. It is a peculiar portrayal of modern Istanbul, which is in a process of urbanization and Europeanization. Stray dogs are semi-free in Turkey. They freely walk the streets, but they are sterilized,” Avedikian noted. 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 | Government reveals details from Pashinyan’s meeting in border village Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with a group of residents of a border village in Armenia’s northern Tavush province Narek Manasyan wins European Boxing Championships silver for Armenia Armenia’s Narek Manasyan (92kg) won Armenia’s second silver medal at the European Boxing Championships 2024 on April 28. Blinken urges Azerbaijan to continue negotiations with Armenia Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has urged Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to continue negotiations with Armenia. Pashinyan, Blinken talk Armenia-U.S. ties over the phone Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on April 28, Pashinyan’s office reports. |