The 8th Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival held in Udjan, Armenia, featured a special program dedicated to Serbian documentary film and culture. ‘On this occasion, a delegation from Serbia visited Armenia at the invitation of the festival organizer and the famous Armenian director Garegin Zakoyan, and with the significant support of the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Yerevan’, announced the Embassy of the RS in Yerevan.

The delegation consisted of playwright, director and film historian Božidar Zečević, director Maja Novaković, whose film Then Comes the Evening was shown as part of the festival’s regular program, ethnologist-anthropologist from the Ethnographic Museum and executive director of the Belgrade International Ethnological Film Festival Saša Srećković, artist Simonida Stanković, researcher Maša Vukanović from the Institute for the Study of Cultural Development, and philologist and translator Karina Avagjan.

The program dedicated to Serbia included showing of eight short documentaries dating from 1962 to modern times, performance of a short Serbian traditional music concert, and a cocktail party organized by the Embassy of Serbia in Yerevan.

Ambassador Panajotović Cvetković greeted the guests, introduced the participants from Serbia and spoke about the importance of such events, ‘that is, of the Serbian documentary film retrospective for bringing closer the cultures and friendly peoples of the two countries’. In his speech, Garegin Zakojan called the Serbian Evening a kind of ‘festival within a festival’, since it was the first time that an entire festival day was dedicated to one country. He noted the prolific film cooperation with Serbia to date and presented plans for the future connecting of the documentary film festivals in Belgrade, Yerevan and Tehran, announces Serbian Embassy in Armenia.

The event was attended by a large number of guests, representatives of the diplomatic corps and Armenian institutions, Serbian diaspora, film buffs and friends of Serbia. During their stay in Armenia, the guests from Serbia visited the Embassy of Serbia in Yerevan, where they exchanged information and ideas for future cooperation between Serbia and Armenia in the field of culture.

Source: RASEJANJE.INFO

Photo: RS Embassy in Yerevan