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Hop Film: All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia's extraordinary Mumbai-set story of unexpected sisterhood is the first Indian film in 30 years to compete at Cannes—and won the Grand Jury Prize.

2/15/2025
2 pm – 4 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.

Payal Kapadia's extraordinary Mumbai-set story of unexpected sisterhood is the first Indian film in 30 years to compete at Cannes—and won the Grand Jury Prize.

Writer-director Payal Kapadia, a former political activist and award-winning nonfiction filmmaker, makes her fiction film debut with remarkable delicacy and power. The light, the lives and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness. 

Prabha (Kani Kusruti) is a nurse locked in an arranged marriage to a man working overseas whom she barely knows. Anu (Divya Prabha) is her vivacious young roommate having an awkward affair with a Muslim young man. Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), their older co-worker, is about to be evicted by a greedy developer. Kapadia's heroines face heartbreaking moral and spiritual battles as soon as they walk out of their homes each day; she captures their quiet, gentle dignity with deep wisdom and a visionary camera. The first Indian film in competition at Cannes in 30 years, All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Jury Prize.

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Hopkins Center for the Arts
Hopkins.Center.for.the.Arts@dartmouth.edu
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