7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

The 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11 to 18, 2010.[1]

7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival
LocationYerevan, Armenia Armenia
Festival dateJuly 11–18, 2010
Websitehttp://www.gaiff.am/en/

This edition of the festival was dedicated to the anniversaries Arni Verno and Atom Egoyan. Other filmmakers who presented their films at the festival were Theodoros Angelopoulos and Fatih Akın.[2]

About the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival edit

The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF) (Armenian: «Ոսկե Ծիրան» Երևանի միջազգային կինոփառատոն) is an annual film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia.[3] The festival was founded in 2004 with the co-operation of the “Golden Apricot” Fund for Cinema Development, the Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists. The GAIFF is continually supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RA, the Ministry of Culture of the RA and the Benevolent Fund for Cultural Development.The objectives of the festival are "to present new works by the film directors and producers in Armenia and foreign cinematographers of Armenian descent and to promote creativity and originality in the area of cinema and video art".[4]

Awards GAIFF 2010 edit

Category Award Film Director Country
International Feature Competition Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film Cosmos Reha Erdem   Turkey,   Bulgaria[5][6]
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film My Joy Sergei Loznitsa   Ukraine,   Germany,   Netherlands
International Documentary Competition Golden Apricot for Best Documentary Film Together Pavel Kostomarov   Russia
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film The Woman With Five Elephants Vadim Jendreyko   Germany,   Switzerland
Armenian Panorama Competition Golden Apricot for Best Armenian Film The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia Arman Yeritsyan, Inna Sahakyan   Armenia
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian Film Down Here Comes Chahbazian   Belgium,   France
Jury Special Mention Uncle Valya Nikolay Davtyan   Armenia
Parajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to Henri Verneuil   Armenia,   France
Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" Theodoros Angelopoulos   Greece
Claudia Cardinale   Italy
Special Prize "Master" Claire Denis   France
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson   Iceland
Lee Chang-dong   South Korea
Stanislav Govorukhin   Russia
FIPRESCI Award On the Path Jasmila Žbanić   Bosnia and Herzegovina,   Austria,   Croatia,   Germany
Ecumenical Jury Award Don’t Look in the Mirror Suren Babayan   Armenia
Jury Diploma How I Ended This Summer Aleksei Popogrebsky   Russia
British Council Award Lernavan Marat Sargsyan   Lithuania
Hrant Matevosyan Award

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "GAIFF Official Website History". Archived from the original on 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  2. ^ Annual Golden Apricot Film Festival Kicks Off in Yerevan
  3. ^ "Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival/GAIFF". Archived from the original on 2009-03-14. Retrieved 2010-07-31.
  4. ^ GAIFF at IMDB
  5. ^ IMDB 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2010
  6. ^ "GAIFF Official Website 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2010 Winners". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-26.