Screening times:
Friday, Nov 22, 6:30 PM
Saturday, Nov 23, 6:30 PM - Half-capacity screening
Payal Kapadia | France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg | 2024 | 115m | Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi with English subtitles
with Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
The urban textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored in this vivid film by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the second-highest prize after the Palme d’Or. The story centres on roommates, two nurses who work at a city hospital — Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and the younger Anu (Divya Prabha) — and their friend, recently retired coworker Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam).
Prabha has been abandoned by her husband from an arranged marriage. He's living in Germany, but has recently sent her an unexpected gift. This as she's courted by a doctor at the hospital. Anu pursues a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her Hindu family, trying in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with him. Parvaty finds herself dealing with an imminent eviction from her apartment following the death of her husband — he didn't put any of the documents in her name, so she can't prove she owns the property.
All We Imagine As Light captures the hum and bustle of Mumbai with an unhurried naturalism, which then shifts to a seaside resort, eventually slipping into a dreamlike incandescence.
Kapadia's feature was the first Indian film in three decades to compete in Cannes main competition and received an 8 minute standing ovation. Kapadia had previously won the festival’s L’Oeil d’Or award in 2021 for her acclaimed documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing.
"It is both dreamlike and like waking up from a dream. This is a glorious film." -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)
"Touching upon (but never proselytizing about) matters of misogyny, religion, caste and gentrification, All We Imagine as Light exudes unwavering naturalism." -Natalia Keogan, Paste Magazine
"Taking place almost entirely at night, the film’s Mumbai first-half swings to a jazzy piano score, finding squalor and grandeur as two sides of the same coin." -Ben Kroll, The Wrap
Grand Prix - Cannes Film Festival
RTVE-Another Look Award - San Sebastian International Film Festival
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