Rehmat

“Rehmat" - Gurvinder Singh

Three interlinked stories set in contemporary Punjab deal with its history before and after the 1947 Partition, and the protagonists belong to Hindu, Sikh and Muslim communities. A woman secretly hides a wounded stranger in her home while his family bears the burden of grief and faces impossible choices. A mysterious old man arrives in the village claiming to be God. The film is based on short stories by Punjabi writer Ajit Kaur. Its world premiere took place in the main competition of this year’s Locarno Festival. Singh won the Grand Prix at the 2015 “Aleksandar Saša Petrović” Auteur Film Festival for “The Fourth Direction.”