All We Imagine as Light is a beautiful, sweeping, emotional film that explores the complexities of female friendship and captures the frantic pace, the vibrant colours and the heady atmosphere of modern Mumbai.
In the city, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her secret boyfriend. Their colleague Parvaty fights to stay in her home without any requisite paperwork left by her late husband. A trip to a beach town allows them each to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it was awarded the Grand Prix prize.
Credits
France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg 2024
115 mins
Dir Payal Kapadia
Venues
Previews
From 18 October
BFI London Film Festival
From 19 October
Chapter Cardiff
Glasgow Film Theatre
HOME, Manchester
Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast
Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
Watershed, Bristol
From 20 October
MAC Birmingham
From 21 October
FilmBath Festival
From 24 October
Cambridge Film Festival
From 30 October
Purbeck Film Festival
From 1 November
Inverness Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
From 7 November
Cork International Film Festival
From 10 November
Cinecity, Brighton Film Festival
14 November
Cork International Film Festival
From 20 November
Norwich Film Festival
From 23 November
Foyle Film Festival
28 November
Cine Lumiere, London
Regular screenings
From 29 November
BFI Southbank, London
ArtHouse Crouch End, London
Chapter Cardiff
Cine Lumiere, London
Depot Lewes
HOME, Manchester
ICA, London
IFI Dublin
February 2025
From 23 February
Theatr Mwldan