From Movie Legends’ Lips: Golden Apricot bringing the cinema world to Yerevan
Once again the great film occasion united famous and unknown but promising representatives of the cinema world in Yerevan from July 11-18. The 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival received 500 applications, about 120 films out of them selected and showcased, 45 represented in 3 sections of the international competition.
Among the guests at Golden Apricot were the world film legend Claudia Cardinale, one of the most eminent and gorgeous Italian actresses, Atom Egoyan, Semih Kaplanoglu, Armen Medvedev, Rob Nilsson, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Stanislav Govorukhin, Lee Chang-dong and others. The host of the 7th Golden Apricot IFF was Serzh Avetikyan, a French director of Armenian origin. “Mayrig” (“Mother”) by Henri Verneuil’s opened the festival.
Claire Denis is a Paris-based filmmaker and one of the major artistic voices of contemporary French cinema. Claire Denis made her directorial and screenwriting debut in 1988 with Chocolat. The film, inspired by Denis’ own experiences in Africa, proved to be a very auspicious debut – screened at Cannes the same year and earned both a Golden Palm nomination and a César nomination for Best New Director.
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