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- 01 Feb - 07 Feb, 2025
Indian cinema is best known for Bollywood extravaganzas, but an art-house film about three women navigating loneliness and love in a metropolis is gaining viewers and earning international recognition, including nominations to the Golden Globe awards.
All We Imagine as Light, a multi-language film set in Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, has won several international awards this year, including the Grand Prix at Cannes, and is the first Indian film to be nominated in the Best Director category at the Golden Globes. It has also been nominated in the Best Picture category for non-English movies.
For director Payal Kapadia, the response to her debut film in her home country is an added bonus to the accolades it has earned abroad. “It’s very difficult for independent films to get screens in India. I am very happy with the response,” Kapadia told Reuters in an interview.
With more than $2 million in box office sales globally, All We Imagine as Light also has entries to the Academy Awards for best picture, best director and best original screenplay, said a representative that owns the distribution rights in the US. Kapadia, 38, said she thought of the idea of the film in a hospital waiting room. Initially conceived as a short film, it took eight years to make. Former US president Barack Obama picked it as one of his favourite films of the year, in a list he shared on social media.
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