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Releasing on Nov 15, 2024
  • 2024
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2024
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Directed By: Payal Kapadia

Written By: Payal Kapadia

  • 2024
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2024
  • Janus Films
  • 1 h 50 m

All We Imagine as Light

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Directed By: Payal Kapadia

Written By: Payal Kapadia

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Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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100
May 28, 2024
Poignantly lyrical as a city symphony, it branches out for a sequel, when the characters abscond to the coast to figure out what to do: at once a respite and a reckoning, ghostly and mysterious.
By Tim Robey FULL REVIEW
100
May 24, 2024
Just two features into her young career, Kapadia has established her rare talent for finding passages of exquisite poetry within the banal blank verse of everyday Indian life.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
100
May 24, 2024
There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and finally something epiphanic in the later scenes and mysterious final moments.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
90
May 24, 2024
Two strong performances root the film. Prabha’s role is to be the anchor to Anu’s flightiness; they modulate their performances well together, but are equally strong apart.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW
88
May 28, 2024
Writer-director Payal Kapadia has created an exceptional document of a city and its people.
By Ryan Coleman FULL REVIEW
83
May 28, 2024
All We Imagine as Light may not transcend form or style the way Kapadia did in her first feature––perhaps the only thing they share is dreamy titles––but that doesn’t make it any less transcendent. If anything, this is a more universal transcendence, one predicated on the strength of being together, the innate spark in people, and the potential we all have to see everyone as someone.
By Luke Hicks FULL REVIEW
70
May 24, 2024
[Kapadia’s] delicate touch remains very much the same, as she offers a gentle but clear critique of the challenges faced by women in India today.
By Clarence Tsui FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Petit Chaos, Chalk and Cheese Films, BALDR Film, Les Films Fauves, Another Birth, Pulpa Film, Arte France Cinéma, ARTE, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Institut Français, Eurimages, Nederlands Filmfonds, Programme Hubert Bals Fund+Europe, Luxembourg Film Fund, Torino Film Lab, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Visions Sud Est, Ciclic-Region Centre-Val de Loire, Hubert Bals Fund, Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma
Release Date Nov 15, 2024
Duration 1 h 50 m
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Tagline When you try to imagine light you cannot
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Awards

Asia Pacific Screen Awards
• 5 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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