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PROGRAM

The International Women’s Film Festival "KIN" (kin means “a woman” in Armenian) was held in Yerevan on 8-12 December 2004. It was going to be the first event of the kind to be held in the Caucasus. The goal of the festival was to establish a network between women artists from different parts of the world and give hand to a better understanding of different cultures and each other. The aim of the festival was to bring to a broad audience names of women filmmakers and their problems, and to promote filmmaking by women in Armenia. The world classical retrospective presented world film masterpieces focused on gender issues, films reflecting the complicated gender relationships, interaction within one gender, as well as films reflecting contradictions between a woman and the society she lived in. The purpose of the festival was to address through films issues of violence, inequality, discrimination and other problems related to women’s rights and gender problems.

The festival consist of the four parts:

1. The International Film Competition "Women and the XXI Century". This program embraces films made by women directors within 2000-2004 years. more...

2. "The Retrospective of Armenian Women Films". This program embraces films made by women directors in Armenia within the last fifteen years. more...

3. The Retrospective of popular science films directed by Elena Sakanyan - dedicated to Elena Sakanyan's 60th anniversary.  more...

4. Guests of the Festival. more...

5. World Classic Films on Gender Issues.

The opening ceremony and screenings took place at Cinema NAIRI. There were more than 1000 viewers for the 5 days of the festival. more...

For considerable input in the genre of animated cartoon.

The prizes were as follows:

Best Film " statuette of a woman with a snail by Hrachia Galstyan
Special prize " a picture by Gurgen Gadachek
Diplomas – salt-cellars in the shape of a woman