Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" – "Kyiv Frescoes", 1966; "Hakob Hovnatanyan", 1967; "Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme", 1985 – on December 15 to mark the donation of these three films to the Pompidou Center, the National Cinema Center of Armenia reports.

The films were restored within the project “Classics of the Armenian Cinema” by the National Cinema Center of Armenia and the Hamo Bek-Nazarov Project. The restoration was sponsored by Fixafilm and Kino Klassika.

Printing of the new 35mm copies of the restored films was sponsored by Armenian General Benevolent Union for permanent archive collection at the National Cinema Center of Armenia, Pompidou Center, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Dovzhenko Center and Georgian Film Studio.

The screening will be accompanied by a presentation of the National Cinema Center’s film preservationist Daniel Bird, who is a partner and curator of “Classics of the Armenian Cinema” project.