YEREVAN, OCTOBER 13, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian films returned from international film festivals with good results. Only at the New Cinema (Novoye Kino) international festival held from September 29 to October 7 in Smolensk, Armenian cinematographers gained three "weighty prizes." Ruben Gevorgiants, Chairman of the Armenian Union of Cinematographers, said this at the October 13 press conference. Film director Armen Khachatrian's 63-minute documentary "Hope, Belief, Love" was awarded the festival's Grand Prix. Edgar Baghdasarian's "Mariam" feature film received the Best Script prize and Arman Yeritsian's documentary "How Do You Do Felini" was given first-class diploma. Earlier, animator Naira Muradian's animation film "Small Soldier" had received Grand Prix on the Best Experimental Film nomination at the International Film Festival held in Belarusian city of Mogilev. And Hrant Hakobian's documentary "Inhabitants of Forgotten Islands" was awarded first-class diploma at the Kinoshock International Festival of Anapa. In E.Baghdasarian's words, works by cinematographers of different countries of the world were presented at the festival, but most of prizes were received by Armenia. As he affirmed, many people shoot films today, this is not difficult. "If you have money, you can shoot a film, but not any film is a real one. One shoult shoot good films."

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