Payal Kapadia and Thomas Hakim on All We Imagine As Light | NYFF62

Director Payal Kapadia and producer Thomas Hakim discuss All We Imagine As Light, an NYFF62 Main Slate selection, with Film Comment Editor Devika Girish. All We Imagine as Light opens at Film at Lincoln Center on November 15 with Payal Kapadia in person for a sneak preview on November 14! Get tickets: https://www.filmlinc.org/films/all-we... The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital—head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—and a newly retired coworker Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on prosaic moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is pursued by a courtly doctor; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside resort with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actors with an unforced expressivity and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. An NYFF62 Main Slate Selection. A Sideshow/Janus Films release. More info: http://filmlinc.org Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like on Facebook:   / filmlinc   Follow on X:   / filmlinc   Follow on Instagram:   / filmlinc