Serge Avedikian: presenting Chienne D'histoire to Cannes Festival, I knew it will either win or be disregardedJuly 13, 2010 - 16:43 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - French-Armenian filmmaker Serge Avedikian, the winner of the Best Short Film prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival for his Chienne D'histoire (Barking Island), said that presenting his work to the Festival, he decided that it will either win or will be disregarded. “The other films were very powerful, basically referring to poverty and cruelty,” Avedikian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, adding that his film differed from the others, as it was based on historical facts. “It is a wild but powerful film from the aesthetic point of view,” Avedikian said. Besides, he noted that being the Cannes Festival jury president, Atom Egoyan either had to accept the other jury members’ opinion or protect Barking Island with all his strength, if he liked the film indeed. “However, later Egoyan said that the jury was unanimous,” Avedikian said. 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 | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |