In 1984, Punjab was in a state of paranoia, fear and mistrust. In this context, two stories unfold. In the first, two Hindu friends try to travel to Amritsar. Five months before, a peasant was forced to kill the family’s dog. These apparently isolated episodes are based based on a single story, one in which people face what they have seen as in a relay race. A common man divided between military abuse and the violence of separatist movements will be the key to these two worlds. Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2015.
Gurvinder Singh
He studied cinema at the Indian Institute of Cinema and TV. His first feature, Anhey Ghorney Da Daan (2011), premiered at the Horizons Section of Venice Festival. The feature was shown at several other festivals such as Rotterdam, Busan, London and Munich. It won the special jury prize at Abu Dhabi Festival and won best film at the India Festival in Goa. Singh is a painter as well as a director, and is working on his first exhibition.
