Ujan

The village of Ujan is located on the foot of Mount Aragats’ South-Western slope, in the Ashtarak Region of Armenia’s Aragatsotn Province and on...

Musa Dagh: The Road Home

During the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the residents of six Armenian villages – Kabusia, Vakifli, Kheter Bey, Yoghunoluk, Haji Habibli and Bitias – surrounding the...

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UJAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL Special Prize (Atsushi Koike, Japan/ Norway, 2010)

Message from RA Minister of Culture 2017

I cordially salute the participants and guests of the Apricot Tree Third International Documentary Film Festival. This festival has true potential to assume a significant...

Planeta Petrila

Special Jury Prize (Andrei Dăscălescu, Romania, 2016, 80’) As a very well-constructed documentary project, Planeta Petrila follows the pangs of post-industrial reconversion letting us see with our own eyes the unfolding, on a very local scale, of global dynamics that concerns us all.

On the Kids’ Skin

FILMADARAN Film Culture Development Organization Special Prize (Adriano Zecca, Italy, 2017)

Once in Summer

Special Jury Prize - (Sirakan Abroyan, Armenia/ France/ Georgia, 2010) Once in Summer is very well wrote ethnographic documentary which takes us directly to the enchanted magic of mountain pasturelands and in the heart of customs which were once common throughout the old world.

Greetings from Festival 2017

We cordially welcome all participants of the festival, the distinguished members of the jury, the filmmakers and, of course, our audience. On October 5th the...

Siberian Ark

Grand Prize -(Pavel Skorobogatov, Russia, 2017) Siberian Ark is a Russian tale in the tradition of Leskov and Tolstoy, except it is true, and can be taken with the explicit reference to Noah's ark, as a simple living parable of the human mission.

You Can’t Hide From the Truth

You Can't Hide From the Truth is an intimate portrait of a family struggling to make ends meet in Zimbabwe's harsh economic and political...