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All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

Dir. Payal Kapadia
118 min

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ABOUT THE FILM

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict 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 village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

Film Details

Program: New Releases
Release Year: 2024
Runtime: 118 min
Country/Region: India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Language: Malayalam, Hindi
Print Source: Sideshow/Janus Films
Tags: Drama, Oscar Submission, Women Directors

Cast/Crew

Director: Payal Kapadia
Producer: Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
Cinematographer: Ranabir Das
Screenwriter: Payal Kapadia
Editor: Clément Pinteaux
Composer: Dhritiman Das
Principal Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad