100th birthday anniversary of great masters Henrikh Malyan and Aghasi  Ayvazyan to be marked in Yerevan

ArmInfo.  The 22nd Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan will mark the 100th anniversary of the great masters of Armenian cinema - film and  theater director, screenwriter, teacher Henrikh Malyan and film  director, screenwriter and writer Aghasi Ayvazyan.  This was  announced during a press conference by the director and artistic  director of the Golden Apricot Karen Avetisyan.

He noted that in preparation for the anniversary, the initiators were  looking for a symbolic point of contact between these great masters  of cinema. And it is obvious that this point was the film "Triangle"  (1967), where Malyan acted as director and Ayvazyan as screenwriter.

The main part of the filming of the drama took place outside Yerevan  (in Gyumri - ed.), the head of the film festival noted that one  location was used in the capital for the filming of one episode - the  Red Bridge (Karmir Kamurj). It is there that a special evening will  be held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the two pillars  of Armenian cinema, where guests will be presented a musical  performance inspired by the film "Triangle". Avetisyan said that the  bridge was restored (from 2023 to 2025) with the support of the  Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia and the  Yerevan Municipality as part of a joint initiative. It should be  noted that this year the Golden Apricot Film Festival will be held in  Yerevan from July 13 to 20. The film screening venues will be the  Moscow Cinema and the Cinema House. The guests of honor included  Iranian director, screenwriter, photographer Amir Naderi, Mauritanian  director, winner of the Cannes Film Festival, Cesar Award (French  National Film Award) Abderrahmane Sissako, festival figure, one of  the most influential figures in world cinema Marco Muller, Hollywood  actor of Armenian descent Karen Karagulian and others.

The film festival will open on July 13 at the Cinema House with a new  film by the legendary Iranian director Jafar Panahi, "Simple  Accident", which was awarded the "Golden Palm" at the 78th Cannes  Film Festival.

The closing will be marked by the screening of the film by the  co-founder of the "Golden Apricot", the outstanding Armenian director  Harutyun Khachatryan "The Last Station" (1994).