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International title: Crescent Night
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.
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Gurvinder Singh is an Indian film director, best known for his Punjabi-language films Anhe Ghore Da Daan and Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction), which premiered at the Venice and Cannes film festivals respectively. In 2016 he was invited by a Turkish production house to direct the short film Infiltrator (16 min) for In the Same Garden, an international anthology of ten short films from ten countries that premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival. With acting students at the FTII he made Sea of Lost Time (45 min), an experimental film based on the short stories of Gabriel García Márquez, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019.
2022 — World premiere, Harbour
2022 — Special screening