All We Imagine As Light

Winner of the 2024 Cannes Grand Prix, Payal Kapadia’s second feature film is a luminous portrait of the lives, loves, and longings of three women in Mumbai.

Prabha and Anu are roommates and nurses working at Mumbai Hospital. Prabha throws herself into her work, a distraction from the fact that her husband living abroad hasn’t called in over a year. Anu cultivates a clandestine romance with her Muslim boyfriend, while hospital cook Parvaty returns to her village after being forced out by property developers. With exquisite cinematography and captivating performances, All We Imagine as Light is a heartfelt and poetic depiction of hope, desire and sisterhood. 

"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