YEREVAN, JULY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Jeanne Moreau, the most expected and the brightest guest of the Golden Apricot (Voske Tsiran) Fourth International Film Festival to be held on July 9-14 in Yerevan, cannot arrive in Armenia due to taking part in the Avignon Festival. However, as Haroutiun Khachatrian, the festival's Director, stated at the July 4 press conference, no less famous European directors and producers will fill that gap. In H. Khachatrian's words, this year festival's opening ceremony will take place in Liberty Square, in the evening of July 9. The ceremony will be followed by the show of the film "Lark Farm" of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani brothers, which will announce the festival's start. In H. Khachatrian's words, the purpose of organizing the opening ceremony in Liberty Square is to give an opportunity to everybody to take part in that wonderful Yerevan film holiday. Seats for 1500 people will be placed in the square for that day. Besides, every evening, at 10-12:00, the best films participating in the festival will be shown in the square. H. Khachatrian said that one of many new things in this year's festival's program is creation of new commissions of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and International Church Organization. Besides, a Life Tree prize has been also instituted this year: one of the names of the films hanging on the tree will be awarded a monetary prize of 500 thousand drams by the principle of accidental choice. The festival's Director stated that this year for the first time monetary prizes have been instituted for international feature and documentary films, in the amount of 2 and 1 mln drams, respectively.

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