Alms For A Blind Horse
Filmfest 2012
OT: ANHEY GORHEY DA DAAN
India 2011
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: Punjabi)
German Premiere
Director: Gurvinder Singh
Section: International Independents
In a village in northwestern Punjab, a discontented family witnesses events revealing the effect of years of subordination of the struggling classes . . . A father helps demand justice for an eviction. His son Melu is injured in a union strike. A mother feels humiliated by the field owners she works for. But underneath the repression, there is a simmering fire – a longing to uprise in unison.
"Singh's dispassionate direction of the characters, their faces, gestures, sounds, and conflicts evoke a sense of simmering personal disaster in the lives of these mostly silent witnesses."
lovefilm.com
Cast: Samuel John, Mal Singh, Serbjeet Kaur, Dharminder Kaur, Emmanuel Singh
Credits
Screenplay: Gurvinder Singh, Original von/by: Gurdial Singh
Director of Photography: Satya Rai Nagpaul
Film Editor: Ujjwal Chandra
Composer: Catherine Lamb
Production Designer: Pankaj Dhiman
Sound: Mandar Kulkarni
Producer: Neena Gupta
Production Company: National Film Development Company of India (NFDC)
Co-Producer: Vikramjit Roy
World Sales: National Film Development Company of India (NFDC)
Director: Gurvinder Singh
