All We Imagine as Light: Indian sisterhood story earns glowing reviews at Cannes

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s new film opens with street scenes of contemporary Mumbai.
But All We Imagine as Light does not show us the rich, elite Mumbai of Bollywood stars and billionaire industrialists. Instead the filmmaker overlays the street images with voices of real immigrants of Mumbai who are the city’s heartbeat.
This is Kapadia’s first narrative feature and it premiered on Thursday night in the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. The film received an eight-minute-long standing ovation.