The first image you’ll see in An Unquiet Mind is a whirring washing machine. The boring, pedestrian household appliance isn’t exactly nightmare fuel in its own right, but as the scene progresses it takes on a surprising menace. The voice-over describes the recurring thoughts of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder – he wouldn’t use the washing machine because every time he tried, he imagined his infant daughter trapped within, unable to escape, being battered against the sides until she eventually drowned. The sound of the machine, the drone of music, the narrator’s voice all combine to create in the viewer an approximation of the dread that man must have felt.

That opening moment demonstrates exactly what the film, which was directed by Rachel Immaraj and screened on Sunday at

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