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...
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...
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...
Remember Your Name, Babylon
Somewhere in Spain, between the corridors of greenhouses in a plastic-covered world, grow small shantytowns, home to men and women, who have crossed the...
Highway Rest Stop
This film traces out the portrait of a motorway rest area located in the countryside in the North of France. It looks like a...
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.
24/04 World Orchestra
This is a documentary film-memoir on "24/04 World Orchestra", formed on the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. In it the initiator of the orchestra...
Unseen Photos of Anfal
The film tells of Kurdish photographer Haji Kak Awla, who lived in areas of Iraqi Kurdistan that became witnesses of the 1986-1989 Anfal Genocide,...
PULSE
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of southern Hungary and houses 1,500 deer. The animals are essentially still wild....