All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

Director: Payal Kapadia
Country: India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg

2024 | 115 min. | Malayalam, Hindi
Subtitles: German, English
FSK | Nicht geprüft / No clearance

Cast_ Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad Screenplay_ Payal Kapadia Camera_ Ranabir Das Producer_ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff Rights_ Rapid Eye Movies

The fate of two women in India: a poetic, atmospherically dense and sensitive film about love, friendship, longing and female self-determination.

Nurse Prabha lives with her colleague Anu in Mumbai. Prabha's husband has emigrated to Germany and is hardly ever heard from anymore. But the little she gets is enough for her to feel obliged to him. Anu, on the other hand, allows herself more freedom. But that comes also at a price. It is only when the two women set off on a road trip to the coast that new horizons open up for them.

Director Payal Kapadia explores the limits of freedom for women in patriarchal India and, with 'All We Imagine As Light', impressively underpins her reputation as one of the most promising new voices in Indian cinema.

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In 2021, Payal Kapadia’s feature film debut ›A Night of Knowing Nothing‹ won the prize for best documentary at Cannes and screened at the IFFMH. ›All We Imagine as Light‹ is her first fictional feature and won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

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