Wanted Competes At Golden Apricot Of Armenia
- 14·07·2014
The short film Wanted (Se busca) by Miguel Ángel Postigo & David Hebrero to Yerevan, capital of Armenia, for competing at the Golden Apricot Film Festival.
A new edition of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival opened yesterday, Sunday 13th July, in Yerevan (Armenia). Among the short films that are competing at the Ոսկե ծիրան Երևանի 11-րդ միջազգային կինոփառատոնը, also known as Golden Apricot 11th Yerevan International Film Festival, it should be noted the nomination of the Spanish short film Wanted (Se busca), directed by Miguel Ángel Postigo & David Hebrero.
Wanted by Miguel Ángel Postigo & David Hebrero is one of the short films which is fighting in the International Short Competition Section Apricot Stone (Կորիզ, in Armenian). This category is presenting 31 short films this year.
The finalists of the Apricot Stone are: Abderrahman by Elias Sfaxi (France), Brother Dog by Maria Zbąska (Poland), By Any Means Aveilable by Charlotte Schiøler (France / Denmark), Dead End by Tonia Mishiali (Cyprus), Deserted by Yoav Hornung (Israel), Detonator by Beso Solomanashvili (Georgia), Dinola by Mariam Khatchvani (Georgia), Electric Indigo by Jean-Julien Collette (Belgium / France), Games by Maciej Marczewski (Poland), A Good Story by Martin-Christopher Bode (Germany), Guys Girls by Liam Engle (France), Jealousy by Vladimir Kharchenko-Kulikovsky (Russia), Just For One Day by Tunç Şahin (Turkey), Luminita by André Marques (Portugal / Romania), Men and Women by Ruth Meehan (Ireland), My Father`s Truck by Mauricio Osaki (Brazil / Vietnam), Never Ever by Erwan Le Duc (France), Nora by Noël Fuzellier (France), Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear by Alexandru Capatoiu (Romania), Pride by Pavel Vesnakov (Bulgaria / Germany), Record by Hawraz Mohammed (Iraq), Red Hulk by Assimina Proedrou (Greece), The Road by Alexander Baghdasaryan (Armenia), The Runaway by Jean-Bernard Marlin (France), Shadow by Nikolay Hovhannisyan (Armenia), Stock Exchange by Stephane Everaert & Frederic Mosbeux (Belgium), Stockholm by Álvaro Martín (Spain), Taweez – The Talisman Writer by Ali Hakim (Germany), Though I Know the River is Dry by Omar Robert Hamilton (Palestine / Egypt / Qatar / United Kingdom), Wanted by Miguel Ángel Postigo & David Hebrero (Spain), and The Way of All Flesh by Deben Van Dam (Belgium).
As you can see, France with 7 shorts (including two co-productions) is the country with most shorts in competition. Belgium is competing with 3 shorts (including one co-production) and Germany with another 3 (including also one co-production). Armenia, Georgia, Poland, Romania (one of them, in co-production), and Spain, one of them, Wanted have 2 nominated short films each. The countries that have gone to Yerevan with just one short are: Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Brazil (in co-production), Vietnam (in co-production), Bulgaria (in co-production), Denmark (in co-production), Portugal (in co-production), Palestine (in co-production), Egypt (in co-production), Qatar (in co-production), and United Kingdom (in co-production).
As for the short film Wanted by Miguel Ángel Postigo & David Hebrero, this Spanish story is going to be shown twice. The first screening is scheduled tomorrow, Tuesday 15th July, at 10:00 hours and the second one, on the same day, at 18:00 hours. The two screenings are going to take place at the Moscow Cinema (Մոսկվա կինոթատրոն) of Yerevan.
The eleventh edition of the Golden Apricot of Yerevan is going to be closed coming Sunday 20th July.