7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival
Location Yerevan, Armenia Armenia
Festival date July 11–18, 2010
Website http://www.gaiff.am/en/

The 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11 to 18, 2010.[1] The annual festival had more than 500 film submissions from 75 countries. Around 120 films were selected and shown during the festival. Forty-five films competed in three international competitions judged by five international juries. Among the honorable guests of the festival were film legend Claudia Cardinale, one of the most well regarded stars of Italian and French cinema, Atom Egoyan, Semih Kaplanoglu, Claire Denis, Armen Medvedev, Rob Nilsson and Stanislav Govorukhin. The International Juries headed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Iceland), Luciano Barisone (Italy) and Armen Medvedev (Russia) awarded the following prizes: Golden Apricot 2010 for Best Feature Film to Reha Erdem, Turkey for the film Cosmos, Golden Apricot 2010 for Best Documentary Film to Pavel Kostomarov, Russia for the film Together, Golden Apricot 2010 for Best Armenian Film in the "Armenian Panorama" Competition to Arman Yeritsyan and Inna Sahakyan, Armenia for the film The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia. The FIPRESCI Award went to Jasmila Žbanić for the film On the Path and the Ecumenical Jury Award went to Suren Babayan for the film Don’t look in the Mirror (2009 film)|Don’t look in the Mirror]]. The Hrant Matevosyan prize went to Marat Sargsyan for the short film Lernavan”, which also received the Best Short Film Award by the British Council Armenia.[1][2]

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.[3]

About the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF) (Armenian: «Ոսկե Ծիրան» Երևանի միջազգային կինոփառատոն) is an annual film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia.[4] 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".[5]

Awards GAIFF 2010

Category Award Film Director Country
International Feature Competition Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film Cosmos Reha Erdem Turkey Turkey, Bulgaria Bulgaria[6][7]
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film My Joy Sergei Loznitsa Ukraine Ukraine, Germany Germany, Netherlands Netherlands
International Documentary Competition Golden Apricot for Best Documentary Film Together Pavel Kostomarov Russia Russia
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film The Woman With Five Elephants Vadim Jendreyko Germany Germany, Switzerland Switzerland
Armenian Panorama Competition Golden Apricot for Best Armenian Film The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia Arman Yeritsyan, Inna Sahakyan Armenia Armenia
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian Film Down Here Comes Chahbazian Belgium Belgium, France France
Jury Special Mention Uncle Valya Nikolay Davtyan Armenia Armenia
Parajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to Henri Verneuil Armenia Armenia, France France
Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" Theodoros Angelopoulos Greece Greece
Claudia Cardinale Italy Italy
Special Prize "Master" Claire Denis France France
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Iceland Iceland
Lee Chang-dong South Korea South Korea
Stanislav Govorukhin Russia Russia
FIPRESCI Award On the Path Jasmila Žbanić Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria Austria, Croatia Croatia, Germany Germany
Ecumenical Jury Award Don’t Look in the Mirror Suren Babayan Armenia Armenia
Jury Diploma How I Ended This Summer Aleksei Popogrebsky Russia Russia
British Council Award Lernavan Marat Sargsyan Lithuania Lithuania
Hrant Matevosyan Award

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