All We Imagine As Light

Program:

International Competition

Year:

2024

Country:

France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

120’

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.

Schedule

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.

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT won the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. This is the first film from India to compete in the main competition at Cannes since Swaham in 1994, and Payal Kapadia is the first Indian female filmmaker to do so. Also, it became the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix.

Filmography: Afternoon Clouds (2017), And What is the Summer Saying (2018), A Night of Not Knowing (2021)

Creative team

Director

Payal Kapadia

Screenplay

Payal Kapadia

Camera

Ranabir Das

Editing

Clément Pinteaux

Music

Dhritiman Das