Yerevan International Film Festival

The International Film Festival "Golden Apricot " (Armenian " Ոսկե Ծիրան » Միջազգային Կինոփառատոն, Woske Ziran Midschasgajin Kinoparaton, in scientific transliteration " Oske Ciran » Miǰazgayin Kinop'aṙaton ) is a film festival in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

The festival was held in June 2004 for the first time. Main initiator was the Armenian director Harutjun Khachaturian. President of the festival is the Armenian- Canadian director Atom Egoyan. The name comes from the apricot, which is the national fruit of Armenia. Main awards are the "Golden Apricot " and the smaller " silver apricot ". It has become a tradition that during the opening ceremony in the open air in front of the cinema theater "Moscow" in the center of Yerevan, a clergyman of the Armenian Apostolic Church baskets of apricots inaugurates, which are then distributed to the audience.

There are top prizes for the best feature film and documentary, since 2007, a FIPRESCI Prize (before there was a prize from the Armenian film critic ). In the " Armenian Panorama" Armenian films from around the world are shown. Since the genocide of 1915 lives a large part of the Armenian people in the Diaspora, especially in Lebanon, France and the United States. Since 2005 dollars for the life's work of internationally renowned directors will be given. He bears the name of Sergei Paradschanows, the largest Armenian film director of all time.

Out of competition run more especially Armenian movies, as well as classics of film history. In 2007, the festival was opened The Lark with the Italian film. Also because of the geographical proximity many films from Iran are also shown, however, Turkish and Arabic.

Prize winners (selection)

2004

  • Best Feature Film: Ararat by Atom Egoyan (Canada)
  • Best Documentary: story of Pegasus by Harutjun Khachaturyan (Armenia )
  • National Critics Award: The land of the sacred rites by Edgar Bahgdassarjan (Armenia )

2005

  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement: Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland), Abbas Kiarostami (Iran), Nikita Mikhalkov (Russia)
  • Best Feature Film: The Sun by Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov (Russia)
  • Best Documentary: Melancholian 3 hounetta of Pirjo Honkasalo, (Finland )
  • Armenian Panorama: Under the open sky by Arman Jerizjan
  • National Critics Award: Waiting for the Clouds by Yeşim Ustaoğlu (Turkey), Mon père est Ingénieur Robert Guédiguian (France)

2006

  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement Marco Bellocchio, Tonino Guerra (Italy ), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran), Godfrey Reggio (USA), Artavazd Pelechian (Armenia / France)
  • Best Feature Film: Three Times by Hou Hsiao -Hsien (Taiwan)
  • Best Documentary: Workingman's Death by Michael Glawogger ( Austria )
  • Armenian Panorama: The inhabitants of deserted islands of Hrant Hakobyan (Armenia )
  • National Critics Award: Summer in Berlin by Andreas Dresen ( Germany ), Retourner by Serge Avetikian (France)

2007

  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement Award: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
  • Best Feature Film: Import Export by Ulrich Seidl ( Austria )
  • Best Documentary: A History of People in War and Peace by Vartan Hovhannissjan (Armenia )
  • Armenian Panorama: Screamers Carla Garapedian ( UK) and the members of System of a Down (USA).
  • FIPRESCI Prize: A History of People in War and Peace by Vartan Hovhannissjan (Armenia )

2008

  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement: Wim Wenders ( Germany ) and Dariush Mehrjui (Iran)
  • Best Feature Film: Alisa, the sea girl by Anna Melikyan (Russia)
  • Best Documentary: Women See Lot of Things by Meira Asher (Israel )
  • Armenian Panorama: The Blue Hour by Eric Nazarian (USA)
  • FIPRESCI Award: My Marlon and Brando by Hüseyin Karabey (Turkey)

2009

  • Best Film: The Other Bank by George Ovashvili (Georgia / Kazakhstan)
  • Best Documentary Feature: Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country by Anders Østergaard (Denmark)
  • Armenian Panorama: With Love and Gratitude Arka Manukyan (Armenia )
  • FIPRESCI Award: Autumn by Özcan Alper (Turkey / Germany )

2010

  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement: Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece) and Claudia Cardinale (Italy )
  • Best Feature Film: cosmos of Rehabilitation Erdem (Turkey / Bulgaria)
  • Best Documentary: Together by Pavel Kostomarov (Russia)
  • Armenian Panorama: The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia Arman Yeritsyan (Armenia )
  • FIPRESCI Award: On the Path of Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

2011

  • Sergei Parajanov - - Gedenktaler Lifetime Achievement: Bela Tarr (Hungary ), Fanny Ardant (France ) and Roman Balayan (Ukraine )
  • Best Film: Nader and Simin by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
  • Best Documentary: The World according to Ion B. Alexander Nanau (Romania )
  • Armenian Panorama: Loading My Life by Harutyun Shatyan (Armenia )
  • FIPRESCI Prize: Mandoo Ebrahim Saeedi of (Iraq)
Armenian language La Masseria Delle Allodole Ararat (Film) Artavazd Peleshyan Hou Hsiao-Hsien Screamers (2006 film) Anna Melikian Béla Tarr
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