<b>Dejavu</b> is Biju Viswanath′s feature debut film after his participation in the PIFF with his short film <b>Voyage</b>. David is imprisoned in a lighthouse on an isolated island because of bad weather. As time goes by he is filled with loneliness, fear and hunger leading to exhaustion. He longs for a friend in order to alleviate his loneliness and luckily he gets an opportunity when he saves a bruised stranger washed ashore. Despite the terrible condition of the stranger, David vents his loneliness by speaking, one-way, to the helpless stranger. Isolated for a long time on the island, David becomes isolated within himself. With this feeling of isolation, David feels fear and anxiety at any attempts at interference in his life. Consequently, David mistakes the stranger as a murderer and kills him, only to then realize his mistake. The film is mainly shot with extreme high and low angles, deftly using a hand-held camera. It thus depicts the vulnerable human psyche from the perspective of a person who is not able to accommodate anybody else but himself and is only able to interpret human relationships as a threat. David is, after great effort, able to embark on a ship, but finds the ship′s crew to be very similar to the stranger he has previously killed. (Michelle Sohn)