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The Fourth Direction
Chauthi Koot
Directed by
India
2015
115 min
- Punjabi
Un Certain Regard, Cannes IFF 2015
CHAUTHI KOOT evokes the atmosphere of suspicion, fear and paranoia of the Punjab in 1984. It considers two loosely connected incidents: two Hindu friends trying to get to Amritsar and, five months earlier, a farmer who is told he has to kill the family dog. One story flows into the other and back - like a relay race one character passing on the baton to another. What binds the two is the condition of the common man trapped between the excesses of the military on one side and the militant movement for a separate Sikh nation on the other.
Festivals
Credits
- Cast
- Suvinder Vikky
- Rajbir Kaur
- Gurpreet Kaur Bhangu
- Taranjeet Singh
- Harleen Kaur
- Harnek Aulakh Raj
- KanwaIjeet Singh Jugal
- Tejpal Singh
- Gulshan Saggi
- Screenplay
- Gurvinder Singh
- Waryam Singh Sandhu
- Jasdeep Singh
- Cinematography
- Satya Rai Nagpaul
- Editing
- Bhupesh Micky Sharma
- Music
- Marc Marder
- Production
- THE FILM CAFE
Gurvinder Singh
India
I reconstruct the space, the setting, characters and observe them from a distance.
Gurvinder Singh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He has directed two features in Punjabi. ALMS FOR A BLIND HORSE (2011) premiered in the Orizzonti section at the Venice FF, and won him a National Award for Best Direction, a Special Jury Award and the Black Pearl Trophy at the Abu Dhabi FF, and the Golden Peacock for Best Film at the IFF India, Goa. FOURTH DIRECTION (2015) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes FF, won the Golden Gateway Award at Jio MAMI Mumbai FF with Star, and the Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Film at Singapore IFF. His short film Infiltrator is part of the international omnibus IN THE SAME GARDEN (2016). His short film SEA OF LOST TIME (2019) premiered at the IFF Rotterdam. His most recent feature film BITTER CHESNUT (2019) premiered at the Busan IFF.
Selected Filmography
