Twisted Apricot - Golden Apricot film festival

• 2019-07-07

Years of passion and love for cinema resulted in the establishment of Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival in 2004. Before then, It was just a dream, a thought in three people’s minds: Harutyun Khachatryan, Film Director and Festival General Director; Mikayel Stamboltsyan, Film Critic and Program Director; and Susanna Harutyunyan, Film Critic and Artistic Director, until it became reality in Yerevan, the capital city of Republic of Armenia. The film festival's name refers to the apricot, a fruit native to Armenia.  Whose Latin name is “prunus аrmeniaсa” which translates to “the Armenian plum.” A popular symbol of the country, the warm color of apricot is even found on the tricolored Armenian national flag.
GAIFF is different from other film festivals as it is smaller in scale and hence more intimate, nevertheless, it garners international attention and respect.
This year the film festival will take place on the 7th un July. This year it goes under the name of the "Twisted Apricot". It is organized by an art critic Vigen Galstyan and is perhaps the most fanatic program in Golden Apricot for all times. It includes movies that are radical, experimental and sometimes even extreme.