7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival
# 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

The 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11 to 18, 2010.

This edition of the festival was dedicated to the anniversaries Arni Verno and Atom Egoyan. Other filmmakers who presented their films at the festival were Theodoros Angelopoulos and Fatih Akın.

## About the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival

The Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival (GAIFF) (Armenian: «Ոսկե Ծիրան» Երևանի միջազգային կինոփառատոն) is an annual film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia. The festival was founded in 2004 with the co-operation of the “Golden Apricot” Fund for Cinema Development, the Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists. The GAIFF is continually supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RA, the Ministry of Culture of the RA and the Benevolent Fund for Cultural Development.The objectives of the festival are "to present new works by the film directors and producers in Armenia and foreign cinematographers of Armenian descent and to promote creativity and originality in the area of cinema and video art".

## Awards GAIFF 2010

| Category | Award | Film | Director | Country |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| International Feature Competition | Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film | Cosmos | Reha Erdem | Turkey, Bulgaria |
| International Feature Competition | Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film | My Joy | Sergei Loznitsa | Ukraine, Germany, Netherlands |
| International Documentary Competition | Golden Apricot for Best Documentary Film | Together | Pavel Kostomarov | Russia |
| International Documentary Competition | Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film | The Woman With Five Elephants | Vadim Jendreyko | Germany, Switzerland |
| Armenian Panorama Competition | Golden Apricot for Best Armenian Film | The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia | Arman Yeritsyan, Inna Sahakyan | Armenia |
| Armenian Panorama Competition | Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian Film | Down Here | Comes Chahbazian | Belgium, France |
| Armenian Panorama Competition | Jury Special Mention | Uncle Valya | Nikolay Davtyan | Armenia |
| Parajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to | Parajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to | Parajanov’s Thaler - Tribute to | Henri Verneuil | Armenia, France |
| Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Greece |
| Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Parajanov’s Thaler - Lifetime Achievement Award" | Claudia Cardinale | Italy |
| Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Claire Denis | France |
| Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Iceland |
| Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Special Prize "Master" | Stanislav Govorukhin | Russia |
| FIPRESCI Award | FIPRESCI Award | On the Path | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Croatia, Germany |
| Ecumenical Jury Award | Ecumenical Jury Award | Don’t Look in the Mirror | Suren Babayan | Armenia |
| Jury Diploma | Jury Diploma | How I Ended This Summer | Aleksei Popogrebsky | Russia |
| British Council Award | British Council Award | Lernavan | Marat Sargsyan | Lithuania |
| Lithuania ||
