The 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11 to 18, 2010.
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.Annual Golden Apricot Film Festival Kicks Off in Yerevan
About the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF) () is an annual film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia. 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".GAIFF at IMDB
Awards GAIFF 2010 Category Award Film Director Country International Feature Competition Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film Cosmos Reha Erdem Turkey, BulgariaIMDB 7th Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2010 Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film My Joy Sergei Loznitsa Ukraine, Germany, Netherlands International Documentary Competition Golden Apricot for Best Documentary Film Together Pavel Kostomarov Russia Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film The Woman With Five Elephants Vadim Jendreyko Germany, SwitzerlandArmenian Panorama Competition Golden Apricot for Best Armenian Film The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia Arman Yeritsyan, Inna Sahakyan Armenia Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian Film Down Here Comes Chahbazian Belgium, France Jury Special Mention Uncle Valya Nikolay Davtyan ArmeniaParajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to Henri Verneuil Armenia, FranceParajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" Theodoros Angelopoulos Greece Claudia Cardinale ItalySpecial Prize "Master" Claire Denis France Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Iceland Lee Chang-dong South Korea Stanislav Govorukhin RussiaFIPRESCI Award On the Path Jasmila Žbanić Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Croatia, GermanyEcumenical Jury Award Don’t Look in the Mirror Suren Babayan ArmeniaJury Diploma How I Ended This Summer Aleksei Popogrebsky RussiaBritish Council Award Lernavan Marat Sargsyan LithuaniaHrant Matevosyan Award
See also Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival Atom Egoyan 2010 in film
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