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A woman looks over another womans shoulder, the second woman looks into a bucket.

All We Imagine As Light

  Payal Kapadia

  France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg     118 minutes

Synopsis

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.

Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment.

Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

 Malayalam, Hindi with subtitles

Screenings & Events

Screening

Tue, Oct 22 @ 5:00pm CDT

at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 05

Screening

Thu, Oct 24 @ 5:30pm CDT

at AMC NEWCITY 14, screen 13

Media

Film Credits

  •   Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff
  •   Payal Kapadia
  •   Clément Pinteaux
  •   Ranabir Das
  •   Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad
  •   Petit Chaos, Chalk and Cheese, Arte France Cinéma, Baldr Film, Another Birth, Les Films Fauves, Pulpa Film

Sponsors

International Competition Program Patron

Jacolyn and John Bucksbaum Family Foundation