YEREVAN, MAY 31, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The Golden Apricot (Voske Tsiran) Yerevan international third film festival will be opened with the first Armenian mute fiction film, "Namus" by Hamo Beknazarian shot in 1926 in the Hayfilm studio. The "Namus" having a history of 80 years has been lately digitalized and restored at the Arte French TV company and shown at the Balzac most famous cinema of Paris. Informing about it at the May 31 press conference, Mikael Stamboltsian, Director of the festival's programs, declared that this time the festival's opening and closure ceremonies will be more "festival" that in the previous years. Festival's general producer Armen Mazmanian mentioned that the Golden Apricot's opening and closure ceremonies will have two accentuations: the opening and closure in the square of Moscow cinema will be a manifestation of a people's holiday and inside the cinema it will have a reserved and solemn format fit for festivals and will have a small art feature. In difference to the previous festival, this time the Armenian and English texts will correspond to each other. A.Mazmanian is convinced that festivals themselves are luxurious and unprecedented events, so there is no need to overload them with superfluous musical shows. A.Mazmanian also mentioned that like the previous years, a Holiday of Apricot will be organized this year.

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