Gurvinder Singh

Gurvinder Singh

Nascimento : , Delhi, India

História

Gurvinder Singh is an Indian film director. He is best known for his Punjabi language films Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan (Alms for a Blind Horse), and Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction) which premiered at Venice and Cannes Film Festival respectively. Gurvinder is an alumnus of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune from where he studied film-making and graduated in 2001. He travelled extensively through Punjab between 2002 and 2006, living and wandering with folk itinerants, documenting folk ballads and oral narratives. It led to his first documentary 'Pala'. He continued to make short experimental works and documenting arts/artists for the next few years. In 2005 he was invited by avant-garde Indian filmmaker Mani Kaul to be his teaching assistant for a master-class at FTII, which led to a close association with the filmmaker who became his mentor.

Perfil

Gurvinder Singh

Filmes

Lantrani
Lantrani
Director
An anthology film depicting three stories with themes of survival and agony.
Trolley Times
Trolley Times
Director
The film is a portraiture of the historic and the largest sit-in protest in post-independent India, staged primarily by the farmers of Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh on the borders of Delhi from November 2020 to December 2021 against the three new farm laws passed by the Union Government. The title itself is derived from the newsletter Trolley Times, which started as a voice of protest by a group of activists, writers, and artists. The film is divided into four parts like four chapters of a book.
Crescent Night
Crescent Night
Screenplay
After 15 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.
Crescent Night
Crescent Night
Director
After 15 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.
Bitter Chestnut
Bitter Chestnut
Director
This film is an account of Singh's time in the town of Bir in Himachal Pradesh taking a look at migration and reverse migration in Bir, Barot and Baragraan through the lives of real people.
Sea of Lost Time
Sea of Lost Time
Director
Sea of Lost Time is an allegory set in an undefined time and space, evoking the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, inspired by his characters. A soldier comes back from the dead to a seaside village. He reminisces on the time lost while he was away, like a sea between his past and the dysfunctional present. Through him we discover a motley of characters: a rag-tag musical band, a man locked up inside an abandoned horse stable, his sister, also the soldier’s lover and who has been bemoaning the loss. An impressionistic view of the intertwined lives of those inhabiting imaginary spaces, with an underpinning of social and political metaphors.
Soni
Soni
Editor
Enquanto combatem crimes contra mulheres em Nova Delhi, uma policial de pavio curto e sua chefe sensata encaram conflitos de gênero na própria vida.
Infiltrator
Infiltrator
Director
Based on a newspaper story, Ghuspaithiya is the satirical tale of a pigeon that apparently crosses a national border into Punjab and is investigated by the police as a spy.
In the Same Garden
In the Same Garden
Director
We all live on the same planet, under one sun which nurtures and renews our unique and common hopes for the future. No matter how much we differ from each other in color, ethnicity and belief, we all share the same source of life, united in our destinies. An omnibus film on the topic of Turkish - Armenian relations.
O Quarto Código
O Quarto Código
Director
As histórias interligadas de uma família e de dois homens num comboio para Amritsar exploram as dramáticas tensões entre hindus e sikhs na Punjab dos anos 80.
Alms for a Blind Horse
Alms for a Blind Horse
Screenplay
A family living in a Punjab village deals with social and labor inequities until a fight breaks out during a lunar eclipse.
Alms for a Blind Horse
Alms for a Blind Horse
Director
A family living in a Punjab village deals with social and labor inequities until a fight breaks out during a lunar eclipse.
Pala
Pala
Director
Documentary on a Punjabi Folk Singer