Turkish-Armenian Movie Premiere Held in Ankara

Ankara’s Büyülü Fener Theater was the venue for an evening hosted by the Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council (TABDC), the Armenian Marketing Association and the United States Embassy in Turkey on Tuesday.

The reason for the event was the premiere of a new film, “Aras Kıyılarında,” or “On the Banks of the Aras,” a joint venture involving all the institutions and organizations mentioned above as well as the US Embassy in Armenia.  Read more... (261 words)

Sos Sargsyan: Turks Cannot But Hate Armenians

People’s Artist Sos Sargsyan is this year celebrating his 80th jubilee. “80 years is an age that makes one responsible for his conduct, thoughts and words,” he told today participants of jubilee celebration.

On the occasion of this jubilee anniversary, merited Armenian artist received congratulations from several public figures.

“Dear Sos Sargsyan, live a long life so as we will have the right to existence,” said Head of Cinematographers’ Union Ruben Gevorgyan.

“Sos Sargsyan is the embodiment of kindness, warmth and humanity,” ran the congratulatory address of composer Martin Vardazaryan.

Holder of numerous titles and awards, actor and director Sos Sargsyan is loved and appreciated by every Armenian.

True believer of Don Quixote’s image, the great actor does not imagine the world without dreamers.  Read more... (214 words)

Armenian-Turkish Documentary Features Life and Views on Either Side of River Arax

joint Armenian-Turkish film telling about life on both sides of the trans-boundary river Arax drew mixed reaction from a Yerevan audience who viewed the film at a crowded Moscow Cinema Tuesday night.

The 30-minute-long semi-documentary, “Arax Banks”, was produced by the Armenian Marketing Association and Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council nongovernmental organizations with assistance from the U.S. embassies in Armenia and Turkey. It attempts to present the opinions about each other of the people, Armenians and Turks, living on the right and left banks of the river separated by a closed border.

In the film the Turkish male character, Araz, and the Armenian female character, Tamar, have a dialogue, deciding to have a reservoir built on the river. Both start to tell each other about their countries and soon learn that they know very little, if anything at all, about each other.  Read more... (463 words)

“ReAnimania” Announced The Names Of The Winners

“ReAnimania” film festival summed up. The presentations that lasted for 3 days were followed by the election of the winners and presentation to the public.

Today the director of the festival Vrezh Qasuni mentioned that the most difficult part is finished already: “We are sad a bit, and a bit proud that the first festival will be followed by the festival of 2010. We have already started to work over the project of 2010, and we proximately know who will arrive but will not publicize.”

The winners’ names of this year were publicized. The winner of the short-length films is Nick Parki with the film called “Question of bread and death”.  Read more... (233 words)

“Magician’s Autumn” An Armenian Movie Is Nominated For Oscar

This year an Armenian movie will be nominated for prestigious Academy Award. As specialist of Contemporary Art of Armenia’s Ministry of Culture Christina Gushchyan told Aysor, Ruben Gevorkyants’s documentary film “Magician’s autumn” will represent Armenia.

Nominated in “Foreign Language Film” category, “Magician’s autumn” is dedicated to the world-famous Italian scriptwriter, playwright, poet, painter, sculptor Tonino Guerra.

Filmed in 2008 under Ruben Gevorkyants’s authorship and Ruben Gevorkyants and his son Vahe Gevorkyants’s directing, “Magician’s autumn” tells about Tonino Guerra’s visit to Armenia, about Armenia’s influence on his creativity.

“To be nominated for Oscar the movie must meet certain requirements, filmed in determined period, using certain facilities, etc.,” says Christina Gushchyan.  Read more... (190 words)

“BORDER” Film by Khachatryan is a Success

Montevideo, Uruguay, National Film Center is going to host the retrospective of Harutyun Khachatryan’s films. The retrospective is composed by seven films, H. Khachatryan told at news conference.

It’s worth mentioning that after Moscow performed retrospectives, this is the second largest event organized. The author says the next one is going to be launched in Tbilisi in December.

H. Khachatryan’s “Border” film has been awarded recently two prizes, one as “Platinum” and the second as “Best documentary film”.

“Border” is presented at various international festivals. Note that it’s a film telling about a buffalo passing Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

Source: Panorama  – Original Article

The 5th youth film festival “It’s me”

The 5th “It’s me” international youth festival will launch on September 26 and will last till September 30, informed Nina Ordoyan the coordinator and director of the film festival, to Aysor.am.

The festival used to take place every year and only in 2007 it was decided to be held once in two years. This year the juries have chosen 136 films from 224 from such countries as the USA, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Zech Republic, Italy and other countries.

The opening and closing ceremonies will take place in “Moscow” cinema. The film presentations will take place in big hall of the Armenian Filmmakers.  Read more... (303 words)