YEREVAN, JULY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The Golden Apricot (Voske Tsiran) International Film Festival has already become dear for Dutch director Jos Stelling: "I love both the city and its dwellers and that wonderful fruit, by the name of which this as much wonderful festival is called," the director said at the July 18 meeting with journalists. The Dutch director is among festival's honorary guests and presented his Dushka full-length film shot in 2007 to Armenian spectators. According to Jos Stelling, Golden Apricot is an important festival for Armenia, as through that festival a film-lover is able to get acquainted with both modern and classical best pieces of world cinematography. "The whole world is filled with low-value and tasteless films. There are studios that try to produce them especially for sale. However, there are other films that are created with a great difficulty, but become real films and live forever," the renowned director said. "My films are about loneliness, and if you unite them, they will become one film consisting of different parts. I never shoot my films from aside: I always stand between an actor and the video camera. And it is that "between" which becomes a real film and has a new thing to say," Jos Stelling said. According to the director, world cinematography, of course, develops, but it is not connected with existence of Internet or DVD: "all the same, they only give light, but cinematography is another thing, it is a window."

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