All We Imagine As Light

In Mumbai, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her secret boyfriend. Their colleague Parvaty fights to stay in her home without any requisite paperwork left by her late husband. A trip to a beach town allows them each to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Featuring Kani Kusruti (Girls Will Be Girls) Divya Prabha (Family) and Chhaya Kadam (Sister Midnight) in the lead roles, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades. Payal Kapadia also made history as the first female Indian filmmaker ever to have a film in this prestigious section of the festival.

"Kapadia’s film precisely captures the realism of the particular romantic chaos native to Mumbai: a warm, heady place where desire, tradition, shame, and pride are in constant negotiation with one another." Jenna Mahale, Little White Lies

France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg, 2024

Malayalam, Hindi with English subtitles