Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland’s most prominent filmmakers visiting Armenia for the screening of her film “In Darkness” at the Golden Apricot Film Festival, told reporters that, “A quality film about the Armenian Genocide still needs to be made. It’s a reality that still needs recognition.”
The July 10 screening Alexander Sokurov’s “The Sun” was a disaster. You’d think the voice of the young girl doing the translating was reading from a Google translate page. Most in the audience left out of disgust. The rest stayed in their seats, interested to see how far the translator’s imagination would reach.
The DAB Co-Production Forum is an annual event aimed at promoting talents and film production/co-production in the Eastern Partnership countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.