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All we Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia
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Female Director 2024 115 France, Inde, Pays-bas, Luxembourg
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Synopsis

The amazing Grand Prix of the last Cannes Film Festival.

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Although All We Imagine as Light is my first fiction feature, it’s still very important to me that fiction and documentary can exist together. What I try do is to approach fiction in a non-fiction way.
Propos du réalisateur - Payal Kapadia

Cast/Avec

  • Kani Kusruti
  • Divya Prabha
  • Chhaya Kadam
  • Hridhu Haroon
  • Azees Nedumangad

Screenplay

  • Payal Kapadia

Cinematographer

  • Ranabir Das

Sound

  • Benjamin Silvestre
  • Romain Ozanne
  • Olivier Voisin

Music

  • Dhritiman Das

Production

  • Petit Chaos
  • Chalk & Cheese
  • Arte France Cinéma
  • Baldr Film
  • Another Birth
  • Les Films Fauves
  • Pulpa Film

Screenings

Friday 27 September 2024 20:00
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Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : Hindi
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Critics

There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and finally something epiphanic in the later scenes and mysterious final moments.
Peter Bradshaw The Guardian 23/05/2024
Few films have ever so beautifully captured the lonesome romance of Mumbai after dark.
Jessica Kiang Variety 23/05/2024
It’s a light for audiences to surrender to, a realist-infused story of three women broadly representing three generations in a city where their hold is fragile, where their breaths barely leave a mist of a trace.
Fionnuala Halligan Screen Daily 24/05/2024

Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia
Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai based filmmaker. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is The Summer Saying premiered respectively at the Cinéfondation and the Berlinale. Her first feature film A Night of Knowing Nothing premiered at 2021 Director’s Fortnight, where it won the Golden Eye for best documentary.

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Filmography

  • All we Imagine as Light 2024
  • A Night of Knowing Nothing 2021
  • And what is the Summer Saying (short) 2018
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