{"id":460,"date":"2011-08-20T00:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2012-04-22T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T12:20:30","slug":"golden-apricot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/golden-apricot\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/golden_apricot_7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1671\" title=\"Golden apricot 7\" src=\"http:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/golden_apricot_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/golden_apricot_7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/barevarmenia.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/golden_apricot_7-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\u201cSeventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival\u201d will again hold 3 competition programs: International Feature Films, International Documentaires and Armenian Panorama. The festival will be held from July 11-18 with the showing of the film \u201c<strong>Mayrik<\/strong>\u201d by Henri Verneuil on the director\u2019s 90th birthday.\u00a0According to the press centre the festival has received about 500 applications from 75 countries, among them, the first time in the history of the festival, from Jordan, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Costa Rica and\u00a0others.<!--more--><br \/>\nSeventh Golden Apricot will be emphasized with Armenian cinema. A special tribute will be paid to several\u00a0filmmakers consecrated to Armenian cinema. Director <strong>Atom Egoyan<\/strong> will be in Yerevan as well during the festival to participate in events marking his 50 birthday.<br \/>\nDirector Serge Avetikian will officially open and close the festival, and his film \u201cThe Iceland of Dogs\u201d will officially close the festival ceremony. There will also be celebrations marking the 85th anniversary of director Henrik Malyan, the 80th anniversaries of actors Mher Mkrtchyan and Khoren Abrahamyan, and the 75th birthday of actor Armen Jigarkhanyan, who is still going strong today.<br \/>\nIn these summer hot days, \u201c<strong>Golden Apricot International Film Festival<\/strong>\u201d will capture everybody\u2019s\u00a0attention. The title may well serve as our impassioned mantra for building cultural bridges and fostering dialogue. This is a great opportunity for people to represent their history and culture,\u00a0and further build cultural bridges and fostering dialogue.<br \/>\nThe festival has become a premier destination for filmmakers of all genres, particularly those advancing universal values of peace, cultural harmony and cross-pollination, and mutual understanding.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Seventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeventh Golden Apricot International Film Festival\u201d will again hold 3 competition programs: International Feature Films, International Documentaires and Armenian Panorama. 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