ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Film - CineMasters Competition

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

Directed by Payal Kapadia

Info

Director: Payal Kapadia
Section: CineMasters Competition
Country: France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Year: 2024
Language: Hindi, Malayalam
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A drama about lovers and alienated people, recently honored in Cannes!

Nurse Prabha’s routine in Mumbai is upended when she unexpectedly receives a gift from her estranged husband in Germany. Meanwhile, her younger roommate is looking for a place where she and her new boyfriend can share some intimacy. By chance, the two women discover a beach town where their respective desires can be addressed.

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Photocredits: Director's Photo: Ranabir Das

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Meet the director

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT

Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia is an Indian filmmaker. She received the Œil d’or for best documentary for A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT, her second feature film, had its world premiere at Cannes in 2024, where it earned the Grand Prix du Jury.

Credits

Screenplay: Payal Kapadia
Director of Photography: Ranabir Das
Film Editor: Clément Pinteaux
Composer: Dhritiman Das
Costume Design: Maxima Basu
Sound: Benjamin Silvestre, Romain Ozanne, Olivier Voisin
Producer: Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
Production Company: Petit Chaos
Co-Production Company: Chalk and Cheese, Arte France Cinéma, Baldr Film, Another Birth, Les Films Fauves, Pulpa Film
World Sales: Luxbox
Distributor: Rapid Eye Movies