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6th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival
Location	Yerevan, Armenia
Festival date	12 – 19 July 2009
Website	http://www.gaiff.am/en/

The 6th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from 12–19 July 2009. The annual festival had over 450 submissions from 67 countries, 150 of which were included into the competition and non-competition programs. Over 250 accredited press representatives (foreign and local) covered the festival. This was the fourth year the festival was widely covered by Euronews.^[1] Among honorable guests were filmmakers Rob Nilsson (United States), Kohei Oguri (Japan), Alexander Rodnyansky (Russia), Sergei Solovyov (Russia), actors Eric Bogosian (United States), Arsinee Khanjian (Canada) and producer Alain Terzian. The international juries, headed by Kohei Oguri, Alexander Rodnyansky, Haig Balian (Netherlands) awarded the following prizes: Golden Apricot 2009 for the Best Feature Film to George Ovashvili for his film The Other Bank (Georgia); Golden Apricot 2009 for the Best Documentary Film to Anders Østergaard for his film Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country (Denmark), and Golden Apricot 2009 for the Best Film in the “Armenian Panorama” to With Love and Gratitude by Arka Manukyan (Armenia). The FIPRESCI Award went to Ozcan Alper’s Autumn and the Ecumenical Award to George Ovashvili’s The Other Bank.^[1]

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.^[2] 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".^[3]

Awards GAIFF 2009

Category	Award	Film	Director	Country
International Feature Competition	Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film	The Other Bank	George Ovashvili	Georgia, Kazakhstan^[4]^[5]
	Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film	Scratch	Michał Rosa	Poland^[4]^[5]
	Jury Diploma	Autumn	Özcan Alper	Turkey, Germany^[4]^[5]
International Documentary Competition	Golden Apricot for Best Documentary Film	Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country	Anders Østergaard	Denmark^[4]^[5]
	Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film	The Living	Sergey Bukovsky	Ukraine^[4]^[5]
	Jury Special Mention	Supermen of Malegaon	Faiza Ahmad Khan	India, Singapore, Japan^[4]^[5]
Armenian Panorama Competition	Golden Apricot for Best Armenian Film	With Love and Gratitude	Arka Manukyan	Armenia^[4]^[5]
	Jury Diploma	Caucasian Niece	Levon Kalantar	Armenia^[4]^[5]
	Jury Diploma	A World of Our Own	Frédéric Balekdjian	France^[4]^[5]
Special Prize "Master"			Kohei Oguri	Japan^[4]^[5]
			Rob Nilsson	United States^[4]^[5]
			Sergei Solovyov	Russia^[4]^[5]
FIPRESCI Award		Autumn	Özcan Alper	Turkey, Germany^[4]^[5]
Ecumenical Jury Award		The Other Bank	George Ovashvili	Georgia, Kazakhstan^[4]^[5]