Film by Armenian director wins a special award at Listopad festivalNovember 13, 2011 - 15:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - At November 12 closing ceremony of XVIII Minsk International film festival Listopad Russian movie "Hunter” by Bakura Bakuradze was announced the winner. “Mothers” by Milcho Manchevski (Macedonia) won silver, while "The Poll Diaries" by Chris Kraus (Estonia, Germany) won bronze for the best fiction film. Film by Armenian director Harutyun Shatyan was granted a special award by Mir TV. Listopad film festival, held from Nov5-12, featured about 70 fiction, documentary and children's films, Analitika.at.ua reports. 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. |