The Fourth Direction
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| Directed by | Gurvinder Singh |
| Written by | Waryam Singh Sandhu Gurvinder Singh |
| Based on | Chauthi Koot and Hun Main Theek-Thaak Haan by Waryam Singh Sandhu |
| Produced by | Kartikeya Narayan Singh |
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| Cinematography | Satya Rai Nagpaul |
| Edited by | Bhupesh 'Micky' Sharma |
| Music by | Marc Marder |
Production companies | The Film Café NFDC |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Punjabi |
The Fourth Direction (Punjabi: Chauthi Koot) is a 2015 Indian Punjabi-language drama film directed by Gurvinder Singh. It is based on the short stories The Fourth Direction and I Am Feeling Fine Now from Indian author Waryam Singh Sandhu's 2005 collection Chauthi Koot. The film is produced by Kartikeya Narayan Singh and is set around the Sikh separatist movement of the 1980s. It is the second part of Singh’s Punjab Trilogy, after Alms for a Blind Horse (2011), and is followed by Crescent Night (2022).
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Silver Screen Award at the Singapore International Film Festival for Best Asian Feature Film in December 2015.
The film was shot mostly around Amritsar and Ferozepur in Punjab, India.