100 films to be screened as part of non-competition programs at Golden Apricot Yerevan 11th International Film Festival

The Golden Apricot Yerevan 11th International Film Festival has seen on Friday the presentation of traditional non-competition programs – Yerevan Premieres, Retrospectives, Films Across Borders, Armenian Panorama, as well as Cinema for Social Change, with Polish cinema program, Ukrainian Poetic Cinema and New German Cinema as parts thereof.

“We want to be modest, but when it comes to non-competition programs, we think of how we can screen so many films in so few showing rooms,” Michael Stamboltsyan, GAIFF Programme Director, told reporters.

The Ukrainian Poetic Cinema program is presented in the honor of Sergei Parajanov, because it was Parajanov who breathed new life into this genre in the 1960s.

“And now we want to revert to this golden age of Ukrainian cinema,” Mr Stamboltsyan said.

Under the Yerevan Premieres program, a number of films that gained international renown will be screened – Climates (director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey; Cannes IFF, 2006 FIPRESCI Prize), Black Coal. Thin Ice, as well as the Book by Vitaly Mansky.

Festival Artistic Director Susanna Harutyunyan said that a new German film will be screened under the New German Cinema program.