Golden Apricot Film Festival welcomes anew
The Armenian summertime hot days are also heralded by the start of local film festival, Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, which has draught and continues to draw attention since its very start. The festival, which tries to conquer and tramp its way to international film industry, has a nine-year history and paths its firm steps through film circles, thus tending to attract major attention and integrate higher participation.
The 9th film festival is due to start on July 8. During those traditional seven days, capital city of Armenia is going to infiltrate into cinema atmosphere, to warm up the air with film fireworks not only for Yerevan’s citizens but also for its guests. As for the playlist of competition film program, 12 films are going to be presented in the catgories of Feature and Documental Films in each. The movies, as always, are coming from different countries. Well, Armenian films are about to be presented to audience and to jury’s assesment in line with movies from Iran, Turkey, Russia, Chili, Estonia, France, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, Palestine and elsewhere.
Co-produced films will be shown in frames of festival as well. Among them, the movie by Sergei Loznitsa, «In the fog», is co-production film, cast at a major number of countries, like Germany, Russia, Latvia, Holland, Belarus, and another movie, «Shoes», produced by Costa Fam, shot in parallel in Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia.
Armenian-Turkish relations with the backstage to the Armenian Genocide have found their embodiment in «Voyage to Amasia» movie, inspired by a piano trio of an Armenian-American composer, Eric Hachikyan, and produced by a Washington-based independent filmmaker, Randy Bell. The movie tracks the line of tense relations between the two countries, Armenia and Turkey, and unveils Genocide recollections.
It is said that about 190 guests are invited to Armenian capital in frames of the Film Festival. Ahead with the cinema world guests, a certain flow of tourists is also expected to flood Yerevan. Guests of the festival are invited to set their accommodation at comfortable hotels of the Yerevan City, namely in Golden Tulip Hotel Yerevan, Best Western Congress Hotel, as well as in a 4-star Ararat Hotel, another sponsor of the Golden Apricot . Ararat Hotel is in a walking distance from the Republican Square of Yerevan and from some other centralized attractions. All the comfortable conditions are provided at a hotel for a creative stay of film-inspired guests and tourists.
Another accommodation option, Ani Plaza 4-star hotel, is located a few metres above from the Moscow Cinema Hall; its newly furnished fitness centre is definitely a must to visit the hotel and organize a comfortable stay there . Independent of the fact which accommodation options are going to be chosen, a well piece of advice is to think over hotel and festival ticket booking quite well ahead.
