Anna Melikian: The winner of Kinotavr

The winner of the 26^th Kinotavr Film Festival is Anna Meliqyan’s “About love”, an anthology  of five short stories which also won the distributers jury’s prize.

Anna Melikian is a Russian-Armenian TV and film director, whose films have won several prizes at various film festivals. In 2008 she was awarded the Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for the film "Mermaid". The same year "Mermaid" received the Berlin IFF FIPRESCI prize, as well as won the Golden Apricot IFF Grand Prix.

She was listed in the Top 10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine.

Golden Apricot IFF's management and staff cordially congratulate Anna Melikian and wish her lots of success.