Apricot Groves (Armenian: Ծիրանի Պուրակներ, romanized: Tsirani Purakner, Persian: باغ های زردآلو, romanized: Bagh-haye Zardaloo) is a 2016 Armenian–Iranian drama film directed by Pouria Heidary Oureh.
Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on the one-day trip, but more difficult obstacles remain, such as a gender-affirming surgery in neighboring Iran.
[4] Filmmakers who had submitted their work to be screened at the 2017 Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival in an off-competition program entitled, "Armenians: Internal And External Views,” were informed by event organizers that the screening of the program had been cancelled, without elaborating on a reason for this decision.
Atom Egoyan and Arsinée Khanjian, prominent Armenian Canadian figures in cinema, denounced this cancellation, stating that it was "dismaying to see a festival that we both proudly advocated for within the international film community in the name of films and filmmakers that spoke of such urgent human rights issues can be suppressed, especially when these ideas need to be discussed and brought to light.
]"[7] The European Union's Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum called on Armenian authorities to fulfill their international commitments, stating that "The incident has a negative impact on the reputation of the country and runs contrary to the process of Armenia's joining the Creative Europe programme.