52 Films by Women Vol 8. 29. All We Imagine as Light (Director: Payal Kapadia)
Pictured : Anu ( Divya Prabha ) inspects a rice cooker that her roommate Prabha ( Kani Kusruti ) has received in the post in a scene from the mostly Mumbai-set drama, ' All We Imagine as Light ', written and directed by Payal Kapadia . Still courtesy of LuxBox Winner of the Grand Prix (runner-up prize) at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light , written and directed by Payal Kapadia and photographed by Ranabir Das, is every bit as good as advance reports suggest. It is an angry film but also a compassionate one, a Mumbai and Ratnagiri-set drama about three women of different generations brought together by the medical profession whose circumstances prevent them from living their best lives, even as they try to make do with the ones they have. They protest when they can but respond to adversity with kindness and pragmatism. The heart of the film is Prabha, played by Kani Kusruti, previously seen in a less sympathetic role in Shuchi Talati’s Girls Will Be Girls ...