Golden Apricot Film Festival to kick off in Yerevan July 11, 2010May 20, 2010 - 19:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The seventh annual Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will be held in Yerevan from July 11 to 18, 2010. With 500 applications from 75 countries, including Jordan, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica and others, the program includes two main competition sections: International Competition (Feature and Documentary) and Armenian Panorama National Competition. The Festival will start with the screening of Henri Verneuil’s Mayrik (Mother). Prominent Armenian actors Mher Mkrtchyan, Khoren Abrahamyan, film director Henrikh Malyan and cameraman Albert Yavryan will be commemorated with special events. 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 | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. 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. |