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This year world wide known artists and actors will arrive in Armenia to take part in “Golden Apricot” fifth international festival, said the supervisor of the festival projects Michael Stamboltsyan and the director of the festival Harutyun Khachatryan.

The jury staff of the festival consists of five experts. This year the jury staff is differentiated into three juries for competitive films, one Fipresci and one ecumenical. The director of the festival said that Iranian Daryush Mehrjuin, famous and intellectual film producer is the president of non competitive jury staff. And the rest members to the jury are Ulrich Zidle (Austria), Goran Paskalevich (Serbia), Azize Tan (Turkey) and Ashot Adamyan (Armenia).

The presidency of documentary film is handled by Austrian famous film producer, writer Michael Glavoger. Other members of jury are Sergey Bukovski (Ukraine), Vitali Manski from Russian Public TV, Karla Karapetyan from BBC.

Anahit Nazaryan is the president of “Armenian Panorama” competitive films. French journalist, professor of film and philosophy TV producer Patrick Kazas, Iranian Armenian Zaven Ghukasyan, and Armenain film producer Michael Dovlatyan are in the jury staff.

Fipresci jury is headed by the reporter of British Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman and Sight and Sound Sheila Johnston. The other members of jury staff are Alin Tshchyan from “Milliet” daily, Turkey, Siranush Galstyan of International Association of Cinema reporters.