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9th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WILL HAVE SEVERAL NEW CATEGORIES
Written by Zara

This year, the 9th International Film Festival for Children and Youth will be held from November 1 to 5. As the representatives of the festival’s organizer (Armenian Foundation for Promotion of Cinema and TV for Children and Young People Rolan Bykov Foundation) told ArmenPress, three new categories have been added to the festival’s already traditional categories, including the Music, Sports and Military-Patriotic categories. The jury has also been changed.

The jury for the 9th International Film Festival for Children and Youth will include children from orphanages, the provinces and children with disabilities. The festival will include several film screenings, debates, interesting meetings, press conferences and master classes.

The festival will present more than 100 films presented by filmmakers from different countries around the world, including the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, as well as Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Georgia and more. The festival will host several notable guests. Since 2001, the Armenian Foundation for Promotion of Cinema and TV for Children and Young People Rolan Bykov Foundation has been organizing the annual International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Yerevan, Armenia’s provinces and the NKR. The honorable president of the festival is Russia’s distinguished artist, Professor of the Russian State Institute of Cinematography Armen Medvedev, and the president is the Director of Armenian Rolan Bykov Foundation Nune Manukyan.
Juries comprised of professionals and children rate the films presented in the categories. The festival has hosted famous cinema figures such as General Director of MosFilm Karen Shahnazarov, Artistic Director of Yeralash children’s film magazine Boris Grachevsky, famous animator Yuri Norstein, President of Vesna International Film Festival Mirielle Antoine, President of Nueva Mirada International Film Festival for Children Susanna Vileggia, President of Ale Kino! International Film Festival, co-founder of the KROK International Film Festival David Cherkassky, as well as famous TV journalist Alexander Gordon, film director Tigran Kyosayan and others.
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