Georgian pic “Blind Dates” wins Zagreb Film Festival October 28, 2014 - 14:17 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Levan Koguashvili’s “Blind Dates” won the top prize at the Zagreb Film Festival, an international festival showing filmmakers’ first or second films in its competition program, according to Variety. The Georgian pic won for its “simplicity, originality, reliance on excellent scriptwriting, moving performance by the actors and humanity of all the characters.” The winner for documentary film was Slovenian road movie “Karpotrotter,” in which its director Matjaz Ivanisin revisits the places once visited by the Yugoslav Black Wave director Karpo Godina. The recent Venice winner, “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Reflecting on Existence” by Swedish director Roy Andersson, closed the festival. Related links:   Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”.   Partner news |  Latest news Pashinyan visits flood-hit region  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Saturday, June 8 visited the disaster area in the Lori province.€3.5 mln EU grant to support justice reforms in Armenia The European Union has paid €3.5 mln grant to Armenia within a €11mln program on Support to Justice Reforms.Yerevan reacts to Baku’s proposal to see Minsk Group abolition Alen Simonyan has declared that Armenia is taking steps aimed at concluding a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.U.S. Assistant Secretary of State to travel to Armenia Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs James C. O’Brien will travel to Yerevan on June 10-12. |
