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PRESS RELEASES NEW YORK - Following its sold-out run in San Francisco, the Armenian Film Festival is bringing a program of feature-length and short films by and about Armenians to New York City. Screenings will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 16, 17, and 18, 2004 at the intimate and historic 100-seat Millenium Film Workshop in the East Village. Each screening is designed as an approximately two-hour program. The films range from documentary to fiction, features to shorts, and experimental to narrative works by filmmakers in Armenia, the Middle-East, Europe and the Americas. The program highlights contemporary pieces that reveal a surprising breadth of approaches and issues relevant to the current moment. Across formal and geographical differences, recognizable themes of displacement, loss, memory, trauma and recognition emerge. Many works will be shown for the first time in New York, among them "Garden Dwelling," a world premiere by award-winning filmmaker Tina Bastajian, and New York premieres of "Roads Full of Apricots" by Lebanon's Nigol Bezjian and "Music is the Air I Breathe," a beautiful documentary about the legendary "new music" vocalist and New York native Cathy Berberian, directed by Carrie de Swaan of the Netherlands. Fiscally sponsored by Golden Thread Productions, the Armenian Film Festival is co-presented in New York, by Nor Alik/New Wave, a local organization committed to supporting contemporary arts in Armenia and locally. The Armenian Film Festival is indebted to United Artists for their generous support, which has made both the San Francisco and New York engagements possible. UA is the specialty film division of MGM, and it is committed to encouraging independent filmmaking and fresh new voices, which makes it a perfect match for this festival. Curatorial
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