YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The organizing committee of the 4th international film festival "Golden Apricot" has already received applications for demonstration of 75 films. The number of applications is increasing, and the expert commission will soon start film selection. Mikael Stamboltsian, director of the festival programs, said during the February 20 press conference that the juries for the 3 contest programs - feature films, documentaries and "Armenian Panorama" have been almost formed. According to him, this year "Golden Apricot" will have a jury of the International Association of Film Critics and Journalists and an ecumenical jury for the first time. The decision on formation of these two contest commissions was taken by the organizing committee of the 36th Rotterdam International Film Festival, "Golden Apricot" also being its member. M. Stanoltsian said that this year they failed to go to Iran for selecting films for the festival. However, he expressed a hope that this problem will be solved soon.

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