4th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

4th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival
Location Yerevan, Armenia Armenia
Festival date 9 – 14 July 2007
Website http://www.gaiff.am/en/

The 4th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from 9–14 July 2007. More than 120 films from around the world were presented during the festival with attendance from contemporary filmmakers such as Bruno Dumont, Leos Carax, Carla Garapedian, Lee Chang-dong, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Aurora Quattrocchi and Tchéky Karyo.[1] Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy), directors of The Lark Farm (Opening Film of the Festival) were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards. The international juries, headed by An Cheong-sook (South Korea), Martin Schweighofer (Austria), Vigen Chaldranyan (Armenia) awarded the following prizes: Golden Apricot 2007 for the Best Feature Film to Ulrich Seidl for his film Import/Export (Austria); Golden Apricot 2007 for the Best Documentary Film to Vardan Hovhannisyan for his film A Story of People in War and Peace (Armenia) and Golden Apricot 2007 for the Best Film in the “Armenian Panorama” to Screamers by Carla Garapedian (UK). Vardan Hovhannisyan (A Story of People in War and Peace) was awarded with the FIPRESCI and Ecumenical Jury Prizes and Carla Garapedian (Screamers) was also awarded the Ecumenical Jury Price.[1]

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.[2] 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".[3]

Awards GAIFF 2007

CategoryAwardFilmDirectorCountry
International Feature CompetitionGolden Apricot for Best Feature FilmImport/ExportUlrich SeidlAustria Austria[4][5]
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature FilmNuovomondoEmanuele CrialeseItaly Italy, France France[4][5]
Jury DiplomaFlandersBruno DumontFrance France[4][5]
International Documentary CompetitionGolden Apricot for Best Documentary FilmA Story of People in War and PeaceVardan HovhannisyanArmenia Armenia[4][5]
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary FilmThe White She-CamelChristiaens XavierBelgium Belgium[4][5]
Armenian Panorama CompetitionGolden Apricot for Best Armenian FilmScreamersCarla GarapedianUnited Kingdom United Kingdom[4][5]
Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian FilmA Story of People in War and PeaceVardan HovhannisyanArmenia Armenia[4][5]
Jury DiplomaGraffitiIgor ApasyanRussia Russia[4][5]
Seven Indian BoysAshot MkrtchyanArmenia Armenia[4][5]
Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement AwardPaolo and Vittorio TavianiItaly Italy[4][5]
FIPRESCI AwardA Story of People in War and PeaceVardan HovhannisyanArmenia Armenia[4][5]
Ecumenical Jury AwardsA Story of People in War and PeaceVardan HovhannisyanArmenia Armenia[4][5]
ScreamersCarla GarapedianUnited Kingdom United Kingdom[4][5]
Wishing-Tree PrizeDinner TimeGor BaghdasaryanArmenia Armenia[4][5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 GAIFF Official Website History
  2. ↑ Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival/GAIFF
  3. ↑ GAIFF at IMDB
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 IMDB 4th Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2007
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 GAIFF Official Website 4th Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2007 Winners
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