7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival
The 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11 to 18, 2010.[1] The annual festival had more than 500 film submissions from 75 countries. Around 120 films were selected and shown during the festival. Forty-five films competed in three international competitions judged by five international juries. Among the honorable guests of the festival were film legend Claudia Cardinale, one of the most well regarded stars of Italian and French cinema, Atom Egoyan, Semih Kaplanoglu, Claire Denis, Armen Medvedev, Rob Nilsson and Stanislav Govorukhin. The International Juries headed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (Iceland), Luciano Barisone (Italy) and Armen Medvedev (Russia) awarded the following prizes: Golden Apricot 2010 for Best Feature Film to Reha Erdem, Turkey for the film Cosmos, Golden Apricot 2010 for Best Documentary Film to Pavel Kostomarov, Russia for the film Together, Golden Apricot 2010 for Best Armenian Film in the "Armenian Panorama" Competition to Arman Yeritsyan and Inna Sahakyan, Armenia for the film The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia. The FIPRESCI Award went to Jasmila Žbanić for the film On the Path and the Ecumenical Jury Award went to Suren Babayan for the film Don’t look in the Mirror (2009 film)|Don’t look in the Mirror]]. The Hrant Matevosyan prize went to Marat Sargsyan for the short film Lernavan”, which also received the Best Short Film Award by the British Council Armenia.[1][2]
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.[3]
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.[4] 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".[5]
Awards GAIFF 2010
| Category | Award | Film | Director | Country |
| International Feature Competition | Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film | Cosmos | Reha Erdem |  Turkey,  Bulgaria[6][7] |
| 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,  Switzerland |
| Armenian 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 | .svg.png) Belgium,  France |
| Jury Special Mention | Uncle Valya | Nikolay Davtyan | Armenia |
| Parajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to | Henri Verneuil | Armenia, France |
| Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Theodoros Angelopoulos |  Greece |
| Claudia Cardinale |  Italy |
| Special Prize "Master" | Claire Denis | France |
| Fridrik Thor Fridriksson |  Iceland |
| Lee Chang-dong |  South Korea |
| Stanislav Govorukhin | Russia |
| FIPRESCI Award | On the Path | Jasmila Žbanić |  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Austria,  Croatia, Germany |
| Ecumenical Jury Award | Don’t Look in the Mirror | Suren Babayan | Armenia |
| Jury Diploma | How I Ended This Summer | Aleksei Popogrebsky | Russia |
| British Council Award | Lernavan | Marat Sargsyan |  Lithuania |
| Hrant Matevosyan Award |
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