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Film: 2022 Golden Apricot international film festival to reflect global agenda

ARMINFO
Armenia –
Alina Hovhannisyan

ArmInfo. July 10 to 17, Yerevan will be hosting the most significant cultural event, Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival. 

At a news conference on Friday Karen Avetisyan, Artistic Director of  the festival, said that this year's event "bears post-apocalyptic  symbols" as the global tribulations the year 2020 was marked by are  still continuing. 

"Every year we focus our attention on the fact and recreation and  entertainment is of secondary importance for us in the context of the  festival. We are having our finger on the pulse of the present-day  global agenda.  The festival is not a festive event. Rather. It is  kind of laboratory with debate raging there. So we should not isolate  ourselves. Our goal is becoming part of this agenda," Mr Khachatryan  said. 

According to tradition, the 2022 festival programme consists of three  components: International Competition, Regional Panorama and Apricot  Stone. Armenian films will participate in all the competitions. 

The festival feature is the films about the Artsakh was shot by both  Armenian and Greek, Egyptian and Argentine directors. The 19th Golden  Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival will kick off with  "Amerikatsi"  (American) by director Michael Goorjian. The film is  dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.  The documentary Invisible  Republic by Garin Hovannisian will be the last in the series  dedicated to the Artsakh war. 

This year, the festival jury will be headed by Terence (Terry)  George, an Irish screenwriter and director, who is known for The  Promise. Among the jury member will be Orwa Nyrabia, Director of  International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), won the  Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist for Petrov's Flu, Isaki  Lacuesta, a Spanish film director from Catalonia, and Armenian film  director Nora Martirosyan (director of the film Should the Wind  Drop). 

This year, the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival  will be sponsored by the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture  and Sport and the Yerevan Municipality. 

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