“Golden Apricot” Yerevan International Film Festival has a great progress during 8 years. The Executive Director of the Festival Harutyun Khachatryan declared about this at the press conference held on July 8, and at the same time noted that there are omissions too: small halls and the scarcity of audience. He hoped that they will solve these problems till the 10th Film Festival of Golden Apricot. Festival’s director Harutyun Khachatryan also said that World famous film star Fanny Ardant will participate in the 8th Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Armenian capital as a guest of honor. According to him, the visit of the beloved, talented Fanny Ardant will be present for the festival. “She comes here with her directorial works,” said Khachatryan. Ardant will bring two films Ashes and Blood and Shimeres absentes. Khachatryan also said the world star will give a press conference in Yerevan. He stressed that Fanny Ardant will be awarded a special prize Parajanov Thaler Award. Parajanov Thaler will also be awarded to Hungarian director Bela Tarr and Russian director Roman Balayan. Yerevan will hold the 8th Golden Apricot International Film Festival from July 10 to 17. This year’s festival has a new competition program, Apricot Stone, which includes short films. Overall, 150 films from 46 countries will be screened.

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