Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
Yerevan, Armenia
Notes
- The objectives of the festival are to present new works by the film directors and producers in Armenia and foreign cinematographers of Armenian descent and to promote creativity and originality in the area of cinema and video art. The competition includes the following categories: feature, short, documentary, student and debut, animation and experimental as well as video art.
Awards
Apricot Stone
Armenian Filmmakers Union Prize
Armenian National Film Academy Award
Armenian Panorama
Best Humanitarian Film Award
British Council Award
Ecumenical Jury Award
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Apricot
Grand Prix - Golden Apricot
Honorary Golden Apricot
Hrant Matevosyan Award for the best script in the Armenian Panorama Competition
Hrant Matevosyan Fund Prix
Jury Diploma
Jury Special Diploma
Jury Special Mention
Jury Special Prize
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, while in Soviet imprisonment, carved with his fingernails figures ("thalers") on the aluminium lids of milk bottles and sent them to his dearest for their achievements. The award represents a silver copy of one of these coins exhibited at Parajanov Museum in Yerevan.
Opening Night Film
Parajanov's Thaler - For outstanding artistic contribution into world cinema
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Silver Apricot
Silver Apricot - Special Prize
Special Mention
Special Prize Master
Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine Prize