Festival Calendar
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
3 Moskovyan Street
0001 Yerevan
Armenia
phone +374 10 52 10 42
fax +374 10 52 10 47
http://www.gaiff.am
email: info@gaiff.am
Director
Mr. Harutyun Khachatryan
Program Director/Contact for German Entries
Mr. Mikayel Stamboltsyan
info@gaiff.am
Year of Foundation 2004
Event Date from 07 July 2013 till 14 July 2013
in Yerevan, Armenia
International Competition
Sections International Competition: feature long, documentary and short films;
National Competition: Armenian Panorama-for Armenians in origin from all over the world;
Terms of Entry International Competition: feature films (full length), documentaries, shorts produced after July 2010.
Armenian Panorama National Competition: feature, animation, short and documentary films produced after July 2009, by film directors from Armenia as well as all those of Armenian descent.
Cinema in Dialogue Regional Competition: feature films and documentaries produced by film-makers from Black Sea and Caucasus region, viewed by FIPRESCI jury.
Prior screenings, also world premieres are accepted.
Subtitles English subtitles necessary
Format 35 mm, BetaSP, DigiBeta
Registration Deadline 15 April 2012
Fees none
Attendance Figures 25,000
Participants of the Film Industry approximately 150 guests international in 2011
Prizes/Awards ''Golden Apricot'' for best feature film, 2 million AMD (approximately 5.200 USD)
''Silver Apricot'', Special prize for feature film
''Golden Apricot'' for best documentary film, 1 million AMD (approximately 2.600 USD)
''Silver Apricot'', Special prize for documentary film
''Golden Apricot'' for best Armenian film, 1 million AMD (approximately 2.600 USD)
''Silver Apricot'', Special prize for best Armenian film
''Golden Stone'' for Best Short Film, 300 thousand AMD (approximately 800 USD)
Special Prize for short film
2012
International Competition – Feature Films
FUTURE LASTS FOREVER by Özcan Alper, unafilm (TR/DE)
IM NEBEL (IN THE FOG) by Sergei Loznitsa, ma.ja.de fiction (DE/LV/NL/BY)
International Competition – Documentary Films
BAKHMARO by Salomé Jashi, ma.ja.de (DE/GE)
Armenian Panorama – Documentary Films
THE ARMENIAN BREAD by Armen Gasparyan, Armen Gasparyan Film (DE/RU)
THERE ARE MANY DOGS IN THE CITY by Gor Margaryan, Gor Margaryan Film (AM/DE)
Apricot Stone
ARMADINGEN by Philipp Kässbohrer
IN THE NICK OF TIME by David M. Lorenz
JOURNEY OF NO RETURN – LAST STOP FRANKFURT AIRPORT by Guclu Yaman (DE/TR)
SILENT RIVER by Anca Lazarescu (DE/RO)
Yerevan Premiers
BARBARA by Christian Petzold, Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
IN DARKNESS by Agnieszka Holland, Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv (DE/CA/PL)
PARADIES: LIEBE (PARADISE: LOVE) by Ulrich Seidl, Tatfilm (AT/FR/DE)
Book & Film
DIE BLECHTROMMEL (THE TIN DRUM) by Volker Schlöndorff
Closing Film
LOVE by Michael Haneke, X Filme Creative Pool (FR/AT/DE)
Prizes for German films
2012
Features - Golden Apricot
IM NEBEL (IN THE FOG) by Sergei Loznitsa, ma.ja.de fiction (DE/RU/LV/NL)
Documentaries - Jury Special Mention
Bakhmaro by Salome Jashi, ma.ja.de filmproduktion (DE/GE)
2011
Jury Special Prize, Armenian National Film Academy Award
THE PRIZE by Paula Marokovitch
Number of Films Shown 180 films
Media Coverage Journalists of both local and international press are present during the festival, such as Kultura TV, Vesti 24, Deutsche Welle, Euronews etc. and all Armenian TV channels and newspapers.
Evaluation The Golden Apricot International Film Festival carries the theme Crossroads of Cultures and Civilizations. The opening of the festival is always marked with a traditional blessing of apricots, for which Armenia is famous. Different panel discussions and master classes are being organized during the festival.
The “Directors Across Borders” project of the festival is a regional network of film directors and film professionals living in Caucasus and in the neighboring countries: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and other. The aim of “Directors Across Borders” is to determine the common problems typical for the states in transition, to facilitate film co-production projects addressing the issues of multinationalism and multiculturalism.
