NAME OF THE MOVIE: Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction)
DIRECTED BY: Gurvinder Singh
DURATION
115 mins
YEAR
2015
COUNTRY
India
LANGUAGE
Punjabi
Set during the conflict between Sikh separatists and the Indian army in the early 1980s, fear, distrust and paranoia form the main emotional frame of the narrative. Jugal and Raj, two Hindi friends, miss their last train to Amritsar, the holiest city in Punjab. They end up in a cargo wagon among illegal passengers. In flashbacks we follow Jugal’s family lost at night on the outskirts of a Punjabi village. Full of fear, they hesitantly knock at the door of an isolated house and ask for directions. Later that night, Sikh terrorists visit the same Punjabi family and give orders to kill their dog for barking and drawing attention. The next morning, paramilitary men burst into the house looking for the terrorists.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Gurvinder Singh is an Indian film director. He is best known for his Punjabi language films Anhe Ghore Da Daan, and Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction) which premiered at Venice and Cannes Film Festival respectively. In 2016, he was invited by a Turkish production house to direct a short film ''Infiltrator'' (16 mins) as part of an international anthology of ten short films from ten countries, titled \"In The Same Garden\". The anthology premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2016. He made an experimental film based on the short stories of the Colombian writer Garbriel Garcia Marquez as part of a workshop with the students of acting at the FTII. The film titled ''Sea of Lost Time'' (45 mins) premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2019.
PERSONNEL
Cinematographer
Satya Rai Nagpaul
Bhupesh ''Micky'' Sharma
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Production Designer
Priyanka Grover
Sound
Susmit Nath
Colorist
Xavier Joseph
