Special program dedicated to Artavazd Peleshyan to be presented at   Cannes Film Festival

ArmInfo.The 79th Cannes Film Festival will present a special program dedicated to the outstanding Armenian director of feature and documentary films,  Artavazd Peleshyan, as reported by the Armenian Assembly Foundation.

According to the source, the program, titled "Peleschian Project",  will be presented in the Cannes Classics section. The program is  dedicated to the work of the legendary Armenian director and master  of distance editing, Artavazd Peleshyan, who will be present in  Cannes. The program includes restored versions of five of his  landmark documentaries: "Earth of People" (1966), "The Beginning"  (1967), "We" (1969), "Inhabitants" (1970), and "Seasons of the Year"  (1975).

Pelechian's admirers include Francis Ford Coppola and Jean-Luc  Godard. His films have been screened at major cultural venues, from  New York's MoMA to festivals in Berlin and Venice, and his "distance  editing" is studied at most film schools worldwide.