The 10th British Film Festival will be held in Yerevan, Vanadzor, Gyumri and Berd from 27 February to 19 March. This year 14 films will be screened, out of which four are dedicated to Charles Dickens's Bicentenary and 10 make the main programme of the festival.

Multi-genre films depict the everyday life of the British people, their perception of life issues; reveal feelings of the people, who fight for their fate in the modern world. The films are dedicated to 2012 Olympic Games, 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens and Human Rights.

The film “Chariots of Fire” will open the Festival on   March 10 at Moscow Cinema. The film is based on a real story and highlights the fight between two athletes in the Olympic Games in 1924.

Prior to main screenings a short British film selection will be screened. The entrance is free.

The guest of the festival is Michael Whyte, the Director of the "No Greater Love". He will introduce his film on 11 March and will run a master class on 12 March in Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Within the festival from 12 to 16 March the British Council Armenia, British Embassy Yerevan, Caucasus Institute and Ruben Mangasaryan Memorial Foundation will organise Documentary Photography Workshop by Patrick Sutherland.