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The 16th edition of “KIN” Women’s International Film Festival will open in Yerevan, Armenia on November 11. As Panorama.am learnt from organizers, the festivals’ goal is to promote women’s creativity, establish a network between woman filmmakers from different parts of the world and give hand to a better understanding of different cultures and each other. The purpose of the festival is to address through films issues of violence, inequality, discrimination and other problems related to women’s rights and gender problems. The opening ceremony will take place at AGBU Hall and will be followed by the screening of films in the competition program. 

This year the competition program includes 65 films from 13 countries  across 4 categories of Short Films competition program for Documentary, Fiction and Animation films under 30 min, Guest Program for feature length and short films, retrospective screenings of films of world famous woman filmmaker.

Among the international guests of this year’s edition are the Founder and Executive Director of the Female Eye Film Festival of Canada Leslie-Ann Coles and scriptwriter Anastasia Goryunova form Russia, who will hold master classes at Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography.

The retrospective screenings of the festival is dedicated to memory of Agnes Varda, the late member of the French New Wave and will include the screening of “Cleo from 5 to 7”. Within the frames of the festival the Armenian audience will have the chance to watch the internationally acclaimed German director Margarethe von Trotta’s ‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman’ premiered at Cannes Festival.

The festival will continue until November 15. Traditionally all screenings are held at AGBU Armenia Hall.  The entrance is free.