Here we present three films from one of our favourite film-makers Gurvinder Singh. Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan, Chauthi Koot, and Adh Chanani Raat - are part of his thematic trilogy series based on Punjabi literature. The screenings will take place over the month of April on three selected Friday's at 7:30 PM.

All three films will be screened with English subtitles.

ARTIST BIO

Gurvinder Singh is a critically acclaimed experimental Indian film maker - he is best known for his contemporary Punjabi language films that explore the predicament of rural life in the state.

His directed his first fiction feature Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse) in 2011. The film premiered in the Orizzonti section (Horizons) at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. It travelled internationally across film festivals.

Subsequently, he directed his second feature Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction), an Indo-French co-production, which premiered in Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

His most recent Punjabi feature is Adh Chanani Raat (Crescent Night) and was invited at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam.

ABOUT THE SCREENING SCHEDULE

The selected films of Gurvinder Singh's to be screened form part of a trilogy based on Punjabi literature.

8th April 7:30 PM / Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse)

1hr 52m

A day in the life of a family in a village in Punjab as they deal with social and labor trials and inequities, leading to a night of a lunar eclipse. Based on the Punjabi novel of the same title published in 1976 by Gurdial Singh.

15th April 7:30 PM / Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction)

1hr 55m

Fear and paranoia pervade life in rural Punjab of the '80s, before and after Operation Blue Star, as separatists clash with security forces. s Based on the short stories The Fourth Direction and I Am Feeling Fine Now from Waryam Singh Sandhu's 2005 collection Chauthi Koot. 

22nd April 7:30 PM / Adh Chanani Raat (Crescent Night)

1hr 49m

Modan returns home after 15 years in prison for a murder committed to avenge his father's humiliation. Altered familial equations force him to rebuild his life with his frail mother and a new wife who's already a mother to a son. In spite of his honest attempts to forget the insults of the past, suppressed anger manifests itself in renewed violence. Based on the Punjabi novel of the same title published in 1996 by Gurdial Singh.

ABOUT HARKAT STUDIOS

Harkat is an international boutique arts studio with a passion for film, new media, community art spaces and contemporary art. Based in Mumbai & Berlin, Harkat takes many forms and identities across disciplines & related creative industries. As an alternative performance & arts space, we have hosted more than 150 shows in the past year in the mediums of theatre, film, music, community projects & contemporary art. We support the new, unheard, upcoming, exciting, cutting edge, the political, the forgotten, nostalgic, melancholic, soul stirring, the beautiful & more. And that's what Harkat is. Harkat.