Armenian pavilion opened at Cannes Film Festival May 17, 2012 - 17:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian pavilion has opened at 65th Cannes Film Festival. According to spokesperson of Armenian National Film Center Ruzanna Bagratunyan, the pavilion will operate until May 25. Armenian delegation is headed by Film Center director Gevorg Gevorgyan. The pavilion features about 15 film projects, scripts and incomplete movies. Film directors Hovhannes Galstyan, Arsen Arakelyan, Armen Ronov and representatives of Hayk film studio are currently in Cannes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 65th Cannes Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, May 16 night with the world premiere of Wes Anderson's quirky summer camp love story Moonrise Kingdom, following a star-powered opening night ceremony. Anderson and the film’s cast – Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton,Edward Norton, Bill Murray plus child stars Jared Gilmanand Kara Hayward hiked up the famous red carpet steps of Cannes' Palais. This year too, PanARMENIAN Photo reporter Vahan Stepanyan will cover the whole course of the festival from start to finish through photos and interesting materials. 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 | 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. |