All We Imagine As Light

Local title
Kõik, mis näib valgusena
Original title
Prabhayaay ninachathellaam
Director
Payal Kapadia
Country
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Screen International Critics' Choice
Genre
drama
Subject
society, love, women

Payal Kapadia’s eloquent fiction debut follows three women attempting to find a place in modern Mumbai.

All cities are crossroads, transitory beacons of artificial light which attract visitors and those who stay forever but who will always remain visitors. Mumbai is its own special case; something that Payal Kapadia pleads in her fiction debut – the first Indian film in Cannes Competition in three decades. 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. This fiction debut from a talented documentarian brings to mind the work of Lucrecia Martel or Alice Rohrwacher, yet there’s a strong romantic streak that also calls to mind Wong Kar-wai’s great love affair with the city of Hong Kong.

Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

Director
Payal Kapadia
Screenwriter
Payal Kapadia
Cast
Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon
Producer
Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
Cinematographer
Ranabir Das
Music
Dhritiman Das Topshe
World sales
Luxbox
Runtime
Language
Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Karlovy Vary, Toronto
Director
Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia (1986) is an Indian filmmaker and artist. Born in Mumbai to a family of painters and video artists, she studied at the Film & Television Institute of India. In 2017 her short film “Afternoon Clouds” was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes film festival. Her first feature “A Night of Knowing Nothing” premiered at the Cannes Directors Fortnight in 2021 and was awarded the award for Best Documentary. It was also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival.

A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, doc), All We Imagine as Light (2024)

Screenings

1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening051103 / Kõik, mis näib valgusena
SubtitlesEnglish
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Hall Electric Cinema, TARTU
Screening064102 / Kõik, mis näib valgusena
SubtitlesEnglish
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2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening121204 / Kõik, mis näib valgusena
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