July In Ltchap France
2008, 52min.
Prod.: Renaud Chelelekian, Script/Dir./Dir. of Phot./Edit.: Khajag Soudjian, Compos.: Khajag Soudjian, Cedric Doucet, Sound: Victor Belin
The film is about the life of a village in Armenia located at more than 2,000 meters of altitude. The introduction of the market economy in Armenia after the demise of the Soviet Union was accompanied with many difficulties. The villagers are abandoned to themselves, constrained to cultivate soil to survive and prepare for hard winters with no external help to expect. The villagers feel unprotected against the major economic problems of the country. The C.S.O.E. (Relief committee for orphans and students) arrives in Ltchap for 3 weeks at its first humanitarian support action to renovate the worn-out classes and the gymnasium of the school and to organize activities for children who do nothing to do in summertime. The members of organization aged 20 to 25, have never been engaged in nay manual work before
The days are full of hardships for them. They feel like being far away from the rest of the world, but the villagers are grateful for the help of the French and surprised at the same time.
Production Company
Les Improductibles
Address: Boulevard Magenta, 75010, Paris, France
Tel: 0033 1420 62677
E-mail: renaud@lesimproductibles.com
| Soudjian, Khajag Khajag Soudjian (born 1983, Paris, France)
Native Armenian, Khajag Soudjian was raised in a popular district of the French capital while playing drums in a rock’n’roll band and directing short films with friends. At 22, he attended theater courses at the Academy of the 10th district of Paris and shot his first musical video, which was selected by the International Clip Festival in Aix-en-Provence. In 2008 he directed his first film July in Ltchap. The film has already been selected at the Berlin IFF at the section Young Talents.
Filmography
Au chaud (2006), July in Ltchap (2007)
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