1120 from from 70 countries in Europe, America, Asia and the Caucasus region compete for participation in the Ninth International Film Festival in Yerevan "Golden Apricot", said the agency "Novosti-Armenia" referring to the founder of the festival Harutyun Khachatryan. "I am very pleased that in addition to well-known in the cinema world countries of Europe, Latin America and Asia, the festival also raised interest among the countries of our region," said Khachatrian on Friday at a news conference.
The director added that we need to pay attention to the Iranian, Turkish, Georgian, Afghan cinema and films from the CIS countries. According to Khachatrian, the "Golden Apricot" could become a kind of fund of the best examples of regional cinema,so that foreign filmmakers could come there to see it. Khachatryan also noted that the program of the festival will be a rich and diverse. In addition to the four major competitive nominations - "The international feature films," "International Documentary Film", "Armenian Panorama" and "Apricot Stone" (Koriz), there are surprise for the cinema-lovers in the non-competition program sections "Yerevan premiere”, "Retrospective", "Tribute."
Festival Artistic Director Susanna Harutyunyan said that "Golden Apricot"also includes courses "Journalists without Borders" with the participation of Dutch experts, where Armenian and foreign journalists will prepare an article for the daily edition of the festival "Golden Apricot".
The selection of applications will be completed until May 31.
International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" Yerevan is held since 2004 The Ninth International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" will be held in the Armenian capital from 8 to 15 July 2012.
