YEREVAN, MAY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. 250 films from 45 countries of the world will be shown in competitive and extra-competitive programs during the days of the "Golden Apricot" second international film festival to take place in Yerevan, on June 12-17. Both number of films to be shown and number of countries they are from is in twice more than they were last year. Susanna Harutiunian, the Chairwoman of the Film journalists and Film Critics Association mentioned in the interview with the Noyan Tapan correspondent that the geography of the participation in the festival is wider this time and "stretches from Chile to Nicaragua and form Australia to Malaysia." She ephasized that this year the most part of the film authors involved in the "Golden Abricot" competitive programs are foreign directors. According to Susanna Harutiunian, this year Atom Egoyan, the Canadian Armenian famous film director will be at the head of the drawing jury of the "Golden Apricot" film festival. 15 feature films from 13 countries shot in 2003-2005 are included in this competitive department. Besides Atom Egoyan, other famous film artists will also be in the jury, most of them leads international high-class film festivals of A group: Klod Miller, a French film director, Yos Stelling, a Holland director, Saimon Fild, an English festival critic, and Claus Ederr, a FIPRESCI member (Film Critics' International Federation Jury). According to S.Haroutiunian, the premiere of Klod Miller's new film will take place during the days of the festival, and on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Yos Stelling, a retrospective showing of his works will be organized. The Chairman of the documentary films jury of the "Golden Apricot-2005" international film festival is Juanes_Pier Rehmen, the Director of the Marseilles International Film Festival, and the members are Victor Kusakovski, a director (Russia), Pier Vintonic, a director from Canada, Gary Konklin from the USA and Ruben Gevorgian, a film director from Armenia. 14 documentary films from 13 countries are included in this competitive program. Susanna Haroutiunian also mentioned that this year the most part of applicants presented documentary films after the selection of which many valuable works left out of the competitive program. Hence, these 100 documentary films will be presented in a separate "Documentary World" program.

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