The Salt Spring Film Festival screens the critically-acclaimed film The Lunchbox. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.

Middle-class housewife Ila is trying to add some spice to her unfulfilling marriage, this time through her cooking. She prepares a special lunchbox for her husband to be delivered to him at work. However, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, which soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. They each discover a new sense of self and support, and become lost in a virtual relationship that could jeopardize both of their realities.

The film was screened at International Critics’ Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail d’Or. It was also shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.