French-Armenian director joins Cannes film festival juryApril 18, 2018 - 18:07 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - French-Armenian film director, screenwriter and producer, Robert Guediguian will be a jury member at the 71st Cannes film festival. As stated on the official website of the festival, Robert Guediguian, raised in Marseille, attracted the attention of critics back in 80s while the major success for the producer was the movie “Marius and Jeannette”, reports Sputnik Armenia. Together with Guediguian, other members of jury were announced to be French actress Lea Seydoux, Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev, Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, American actress Kristen Stewart, Chinese actor Chang Chen, Burundian singer-songwriter Khadja Nin and American screenwriter Ava DuVernay. The president of jury will be famous Australian actress Cate Blanchett. Cannes film festival will start on May 8 and will last till May 19․ Top stories Six total incidents have burned 19 old-growth trees. Friday night 8 trees were torched along the beautiful main entrance. The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Freedom House concerned by mounting reports of police violence in Armenia Freedom House urged Armenian authorities to investigate this pattern of excessive force and inhumane treatment. CSTO recognizes Armenia’s sovereign right to withdraw Tasmagambetov has said that if Armenia decides to leave the organization, “it will be the sovereign right of Armenia.” |