NAME OF THE MOVIE: Adh Chanani Raat (Crescent Night)
DIRECTED BY: Gurvinder Singh
DURATION
109 mins
YEAR
2022
COUNTRY
India
LANGUAGE
Punjabi
After fifteen years in prison, for committing a murder to save his father’s honour, Modan returns to his village in Punjab. In his absence, the village’s power structure has shifted towards a landowner, to the detriment of his family. Worse still, his brother is the landowner’s lapdog. Modan tries to restart his life. He repairs the family home, cares for his elderly mother, and finds love with a widow who has a young child. Yet, the past continues to affect this new life, and violence seems like the only solution.
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
Editor
Avneesh Chhabra
Sound
Kanishk Bhoklay, Niladri Shekhar Roy, Marc Marder
Colorist
Xavier Joseph
Producer(s)
Bobby Bedi
