Family hosting 'Rehmat' film set lost teenage son to overdose during production

The family whose Punjab home served as the set for Gurvinder Singh's 'Rehmat,' premiering in competition at the 79th Locarno Film Festival (5–15 August 2026), lost their 19-year-old son to a drug overdose within two months of meeting the crew. The film explores displacement and inherited grief; the family's loss was neither staged nor scripted.