A Living Illusion

First time writer-director Nilnjan Lahiri's taut psycho-drama about a writer's love for his grandson is told with riveting imagery and spellbinding sound design hat puts an edgy spin on reality. When an alcoholic writer is forbidden from seeing his beloved grandson, he breaks into his daughter's home and abducts the child. But the abduction takes an unexpected twist when the two are blindsided in a car accident, catapulting the grandfather into a hazy desperation awash in Scotch and grief. The mesmerizing conclusion is a Rubik's cube of fantasy and reality.