First Yerevan ReAnimania festival becomes internationalSeptember 10, 2009 - 16:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - First Yerevan ReAnimania animated films festival will be held in Armenia from October 3 to 6, bringing together participants from over 31 countries, including France, Russia, Italy, Ukraine and Iran. "We are happy that the festival organized for the first ever time has become international," said Vrezh Kaysuni, director of the festival. The festival program includes 5 full-length and 100 short films, which will compete in the following nominations: Best full-length film, Best Diploma Work, Best short film, Best TV scenario. Special prizes are also envisaged. Two exhibitions dedicated to history of comics and Armenian animation art will open. Besides, the festival films will be screened in Dilijan. The festival is collaborating with Annecy animated films festival, Stuttgart festival, Aardman Studio, Galust Gulpenkian international folm festival, Golden Apricot film festival and others. Top stories 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”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |