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AYGEPAR

11.07 - 18.00 Moscow Cinema, Small Hall
12.07 - 18.00 Nairi Cinema, Small Hall
2006, Armenia, 24 min.

NON COMPETITION PROGRAM
Directors Across Borders

Script: Tigran Paskevichyan, Dir.: Ara Shirinyan, Dir. of Phot.: Suren Ter-Karapetyan, Edit.: Tigran Karapetyan, Prod.: Satenik Faramazyan.

The film is comprised of twin documentaries that tell the story of two next-door villages: Aygepar in Armenia, and Alibeyli in Azerbaijan. Up until the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict, the inhabitants of the villages depicted in the documentaries enjoyed normal relations, with interpersonal, interfamilial, and economic ties. Those ties were abruptly and tragically broken by the war. Former friends and associates were drawn into the hostilities, often unaware of the damage that their bullets and bombs caused to their neighbors on the other side of the border. Twelve years into the cease-fire, the inhabitants of both villages pause to reflect on friendship and enmity, war and peace, and the possibility of a clean slate leading to coexistence.

Ara Shirinyan

Born 1957, Yerevan.
He graduated from the Film Directing Department of Yerevan Pedagogical Institute. From 1982 to 1996 he worked at the State TV of Armenia. He currently works at “Shoghakat” TV Company. He attended the UNESCO International TV Broadcaster’s Workshop, KBS, Seoul (South Korea), 1994. Participated in the AED program of Support for Investigative Jornalism, Washington, DC, 2000. He attended the UNESCO TV Documentary Production Workshop, KBS, Seoul (South Korea), 2004. Member of “Investigative Journalists” NGO, Versus Film Studio.Along with filmmaking since 1995 he has been lecturing to students at the Department of Journalism of Yerevan State University.

Filmography
Demontage (1999), Human Rights in Armenia (2000), Outcasts (2000), Mystery of Minas (2001), Lethal Toys (2004), Switch (2005).

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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister.

Awards
Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.

This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.

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