APRICOT GROVES won best of fest award at 5th Speechless Film Festival 2017 - Minnesota ,USA
APRICOT GROVES has been banned in Armenia because of its LGBT subject.
APRICOT GROVES has been removed from Golden Apricot Film Festival , Armenia's main film festival with no explanation from festival director Harutyun Khachatryan with other LGBT themed film "Listen to".
APRICOT GROVES in the most internationally appeared film in the history of Armenian cinema with more than 90 international film festival selections.
APRICOT GROVES has been co-produced with National Cinema Center of Armenia in 2016 when Gevork Georgian was in charge, latter it appeared that Gevork Georgian didn't register the contract an denied to be a part of project and after that they made another contract that shows this film has been co-produced by an individual company called "HYK FILM" and Hyk Film refused to sign the papers for APRICOT GROVES for Oscars foreign language category.