The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival is rapidly approaching, and excitement is building in India. ‘All We Imagine As Light,’ directed by Payal Kapadia, is the first Indian film to compete at a worldwide event in thirty years.
The movie will contend for the top honors at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, which will take place from May 14 to May 25.
A list of the international films that will be screened in the Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival was released on the official X page of the festival.
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This is not the first time that Kapadia’s work has been shown at Cannes. Her film ‘A Night of Not Knowing Nothing’, which was a significant Cannes sidebar, earned the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary in the Director’s Fortnight in 2021.
Reportedly, “Afternoon Clouds” by Kapadia was screened in 2017 as part of the Cinefondation section, which is held in conjunction with the Festival’s Critics’ Week and Director’s Fortnight.
The newest releases from some of the biggest names in international cinema will compete alongside Kapadia’s feature. Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, Sean Baker’s Anora, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds Of Kindness, Paul Schrader’s Oh Canada, Magnus Von Horn’s The Girl With The Needle, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope too have been picked for the festival’s competition section, among others.
The plot of “All We Imagine As Light” centers on Prabha, a nurse who is unsettled by an unexpected gift from her long-estranged husband. Anu, her roommate, and younger companion, is frantically looking for a private place to spend time with her partner. Eventually, the two women travel to a beach town where they can freely express their aspirations and dreams.
“Santosh,” a film by British-Indian director Sandhya Suri, has also been chosen for the festival’s Un Certain Regard section.