Armenian star of Hollywood to visit Golden Apricot 

ArmInfo. After the stunning success of Sean Baker's film "Anora" at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and the 97th Oscar award ceremony with the participation of Armenian  actor Karren Karagulian, the latter will visit Armenia at the  invitation of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival.

As ArmInfo was informed by the press service of the festival  organizers, Karagulian will take part in the Golden Apricot as a jury  member of the regional competition program.

He will be joined by the winner of the Grand Prix of the "Un Certain  Regard" program of the Cannes Film Festival, one of the best students  of the outstanding master Alexander Sokurov - Russian director Kira  Kovalenko.

The jury of the regional competition program will be headed by the  pioneer of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, a representative of the  so-called "Second Wave" - Iranian director, screenwriter,  photographer Amir Naderi.

This year the Golden Apricot Film Festival will be held from July 13  to 20, during which Yerevan viewers will traditionally be presented  with films from leading international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin,  Venice, etc.). A visit by outstanding figures of world cinema is  expected, who will share their experience and art with the public.

Sean Baker's film "Anora" was awarded the "Golden Palm" at the 77th  Cannes Film Festival, as well as 5 Oscars at the 97th Cannes Film  Festival award ceremony in the nominations "Best Film", "Best  Director", "Best Original Screenplay", "Best Editing". The film's  fifth statuette was brought to it by the actress who played the main  role, Mikey Madison. Let us recall that during the award ceremony at  the Cannes Film Festival, Sean Baker called Karen Karagulian his  "lucky talisman", since the Armenian actor has starred in all of the  director's films for over 20 years.