Project Detail

Achele

Synopsis

In a small rural community of the remote Upper Himalayan region of Ladakh in India, two young sisters struggle with the onset of separation. As they try to make sense of their changing world we slowly discover a lost world where development threatens to tear the sisters apart.

Details

Year: 2012
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 16 mins 31 secs
Format: HD
Director: Clara Kraft Isono
Producer: Clara Kraft Isono
Editor: Elisa Cepedal
Screenwriter: Clara Kraft Isono
Director of Photography: Christine Lalla
Production Designer: Camille Lacadee
Sound: Norboo Wangchuk
Composer: James 0'Connell
Principal cast: Kosher Praveen, Padma Agmo, Rigzin Jurmet
Assistant Director: Rigzin Jurmet

Genre

Woman Director Asian Children’s Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

London Film School

24 Shelton Street London,
Greater London WC2H 9UB

+44 (0)20 7836 9642

www.lfs.org.uk/

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