Cannes Facetime: ‘All We Imagine as Light’ Director Payal Kapadia
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Payal Kapadia‘s “All We Imagine as Light” is the first Indian film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 years.
A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Kapadia’s “Afternoon Clouds” was a 2017 Cannes Cinefondation selection and she won the festival’s Golden Eye award in 2021 for her documentary “A Night of Knowing Nothing.” Fiction feature “All We Imagine as Light” follows two nurses (Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha) from Kerala, southern India, who are roommates in Mumbai.
A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest. What made you want to tell this particular story?I was interested in women who come to a different place to work, and be financially independent.
And it was something that I had seen growing up in a family of a lot of women, and also the ideas that we have, that financial freedom can in some way, give us some kind of autonomy, in India it’s more complicated than that.
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