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Greetings from Festival
It’s not so easy to see the reality in itself as it actually seems. Reality is diverse and variform, it has as many perceptions...
Message from RA Minister of Culture
I salute the participants and guests of the “Apricot Tree” Second International Film Festival.
The festival aspires to take on a telling role in the...
Sara Nalbandyan
Sara Nalbandyan
Sara Nalbandyan is a film critic, culturologist and film director. She studied the Russian Language and Literature in the Yerevan State University. In...
Hamid Jafari
Hamid Jafari
Born in 1971 in Mahshahr, Iran, Hamdollah (Hamid) Jafari is an Iranian film director and producer. He studied Cinema at Sooreh University in...
Rosemarie Blank
Rosemarie Blank
Documentary filmmaker Rosemarie Blank was born in Poland. She attended the Academy of Art in Berlin and worked for some time as an...
Blacks of Iran
Blacks of Iran is about Afro-Iranians who live in Iran’s Khuzestan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Kerman, Sistan and Baluchestan provinces. This documentary explores the daily activities,...
The Holy Wedding
The Holy Wedding captures on film a ritual that is said to be a thousand years old or even more. According to tradition, Pir-e...
These Objects, Those Memories
These Objects, Those Memories is a split-screen film focused on material culture, specifically, that of three long-term Zimbabwean female migrants currently residing in Cape...
Yolngu Homeland
The film is about Garrthalala as a place and how the community who live there are connected with other beings, including ancestors, animals and...
Banquet
The word “authanakoota” (banquet) in the local language (Kannada) refers to a large gathering that comes together for a ceremonial meal. Smriti Mehra’s documentary...