All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

France | 2024 | 118 min. | Payal Kapadia

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The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

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Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—and a newly retired coworker Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on prosaic moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is pursued by a courtly doctor; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside resort with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actors with an unforced expressivity and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence.

  • Director: Payal Kapadia
  • Principal Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon
  • Country: France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg
  • Year: 2024
  • Running Time: 118 min.
  • Producer: Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
  • Screenplay: Payal Kapadia
  • Cinematographers: Ranabir Das
  • Editors: Clément Pinteaux
  • Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2024 (Grand Prix)
  • Language: Hindi, Mayalam
  • Has Subtitles: Yes
  • US Distributor: Janus/Sideshow
  • International Sales: Luxbox