
ArmInfo.The 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival announced the names of the jury members of the international competition program.
As reported by the press service of the film festival, the list of jury members included a participant of the festivals in San Sebastian and Turin, winner of the Golden Apricot, American screenwriter and director of Armenian origin Eric Nazarian, co-founder of the Greek New Wave, co-author of the early works of Yorgos Lanthimos, director of the famous film Atenberg, as well as the director of the ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Greece Athena Rakhil Tsangari, one of the most prominent authors of modern cinema of Central Asia, master of genre experimentation and ironic gloom Kazakh director and screenwriter Adilkhan Yerzhanov, one of the leading producers of Romanian cinema, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and producer of films nominated for an Oscar Ada Solomon.
The chairman of the jury of the international competition program of the 22nd Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" will be the Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako (winner of the Cannes Film Festival and the French national film award Cezar). This year, "Golden Apricot" will be held in the Armenian capital from July 13 to 20. Traditionally, the audience will be presented with films from prestigious international film festivals, and a visit from famous filmmakers is expected, who will share their experience and art.