All We Imagine as Light

• Payal Kapadia
• 118 min
• India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg
• 2024
• Fiction

Cannes-awarded, visually poetic, and beautifully nuanced debut about two women in Mumbai longing for freedom and connection.

Nurses Prabha and Anu share a cramped apartment. Prabha is married but estranged from her husband, who lives abroad. Anu, younger and full of dreams, is caught in a secret romance with a Muslim man – something she must conceal from her Hindu family. Prabha is initially disapproving, but when her own dormant desire for intimacy is rekindled by an unexpected suitor, her perspective on Anu’s passion begins to shift. A retreat from the city’s clamor to a quiet coastal village provides space for their emotions and desires to unfold. With mesmerizing visual brilliance and a keen eye for both the everyday and the magical, Payal Kapadia’s fiction debut emerges as one of the year’s most captivating and heartfelt films.

- Johan Blomqvist

• Drama
• Kärlek
• Relationer
• Stad
• Uppbrott
• Vänskap
• Resa