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A new competition program of shorts called Apricot Stone has been added to the 8th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. Organizers of the competition program, filmmakers Aram Shahbazyan, Gagik Ghazare, and Lusine Sargsyan, Festival Director Assistant Vardan Hakobyan, and screenwriter Astghik Simonyan, presented the jury and films included in the new program at a press conference in Yerevan today.
Through this new competition program, the Golden Apricot film festival enables young filmmakers to fulfill their ideas, formulate their own requirements and standards for selecting films, as well as to select the films within this program. Through the films presented in the Apricot Stone program, the young coordinators attempted to understand tomorrow’s cinema with its genre differences, reads a Golden Apricot festival statement issued Friday.
As announced by organizers, 135 films were submitted for the Apricot Stone competition program, 25 of which (from 18 countries) were selected.
The films included in the Apricot Stone program include:
“Via Gori,” George Barbakadze, Australia
“I Could Be Your Grandmother,” Bernard Tanguy, France
“It’s a Long Way Home,” Gregory Rentis, USA/Greece
“Glasgow,” Piotr Subbotko, Poland
“Return,” Harri J. Rantala, Finland
“The Piano Tuner,” Olivier Treiner, France
“Slugs,” Maria Lundqvist, Sweden
“Awaiting Her,” James Joint, Honduras
“Story of Nobody,” Manfredi Lucibello, Italy
“Ambitious,” Ainur Askarov, Russia
“Laaf,” Loic Tanson, Thierry Besseling, Luxemburg
“On the Other Side,” Livia Coullias Blanc, France
“Mephisto,” Laurence Vaissiere, France
“Peter Grass is Dead Twice,” Jean-Jacques Cunnac, France
“Flower Dance,” Lusine Sargsyan, Armenia
“The Baby,” Mohammadreza Hajipour, Portugal
“Bycicle,” Serhat Karaaslan, Turkey
“Lighthearted Boy,” Marco Gianfreda, Italy
“Waiting,” Jow Zhi Wei, Singapore
“Wingled Illusion,” Tatev Isakhanyan, Armenia
“Galata,” Diana Kardumyan, Armenia/Turkey
“Morning, Noon, Evening…and Morning,” Gayaneh Jiji, France/Syria
“Lemonary,” Vasiliy Fenin, Russia
“Sea of Desires,” Shota Gamisonia, Russia
“Hotel Chambord,” Dorothée Baert, Belgium
“L’or blanc,” Adama Salle, Morroco
Members of the jury, led by film producer Thierry Lenouvel (France), include film critic Olga Sherwood (Russia) and filmmaker Gariné Torossian (Canada).
The 8th annual Golden Apricot International Film festival will be held from Jul. 10–17 in Yerevan, thanks to loyal partners, as well as the Ministry of Culture, which is named as a state support, and VivaCell-MTS as a general sponsor.