YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Golden Apricot International Film Festival will have a new partner in the face of the Cafesjian Museum Foundation. This information was provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Arthur Ispirian, the Director of the organization of the cultural events of the Foundation. In his words, a contract of cooperation will be signed by the heads of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival and the Cafesjian Museum Foundation one of these days. Arthur Ispirian mentioned that as a result of the cooperation, the Foundation will dispose the three halls of the Kaskad complex for the festival proceedings, will organize open-air film showings, which will give everybody an opportunity to watch the best European films free of charge. In addition to this, they will organize concerts on the days of the festival. Certain arrangements have already been made in this direction with the best musical bands of Armenia.The opening and closing ceremonies of the festival will also take place in Kaskad. According to Arthur Ispirian, there was a suggestion on cooperation by the management of the Golden Apricot yet last year, however, they did not agree as repair work was envisaged to carried out in Kaskad.

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