Filmmaker Payal Kapadia takes IndieWire inside how she made one of 2024's very best films. The story of the lives of two nurses living in Mumbai is filled with quiet, intimate vignettes of the ...

Every day, the world over, we feel these things because we’re human: Longing. Peace, where we can find it. Belonging. Loneliness, sometimes. Unsteadiness in an ever-expiring present tense. If we’re ...

Of the many films set in India that premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s feature debut is the only one to hone in on the country and its character, which it does by focusing ...

The Gist: Kapadia opens All We Imagine as Light as if it were a documentary: A long tracking shot of pre-dawn bustle on the streets of Mumbai, as various, anonymous residents share their insights and ...

Coming in hot from winning the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light is a hopeful story. The themes revolved around sisterhood, keeping the dying hope alive and finding ...

The heat, hustle, glory and grind of modern-day Mumbai give way to something all the more mysterious and ever so beguiling in Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light,” an expansive and intimate ...

Emma Kiely has been with Collider since 2021 and has been Horror Editor since July 2023. Emma has a degree in English and Film from University College Dublin. For a while, due to pandemic-induced ...

Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” is many things at any given moment. The film explores a greater breadth of ideas than you might expect from a story that, on its surface, is about a young ...

“The city takes time away from you,” an unseen voice says, near the beginning of Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light. “You’d better get used to impermanence.” The city in question ...