Sarkissian hosts prominent filmmaking couple PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian

YEREVAN, JULY 6, ARMENPRESS. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has held a meeting with prominent filmmakers PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian, as well as co-founder of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival Harutyun Khachatryan.

Holmquist and Khardalian are a Swedish couple known for their documentaries.

At the meeting the president highly valued the filmmakers’ creative interest towards Armenian history and culture, which has also raised the Armenian Genocide issue in the Swedish political and public circles.

The filmmakers gave a CD copy of the Grandma’s Tattoos movie to the president as a gift.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan