Kerala government felicitates All We Imagine As Light team & Santosh Sivan for their triumph at Cannes 2024, see pics : Bollywood News

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light continues to remain in the headlines. Following the Cannes 2024 triumph, the Kerala Government has honoured the Malayali film professionals. The cast of the film, which won the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival, including Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Hridhu Haroon, and Aziz Nedumangad, received accolades for their historic achievements.

Kerala government felicitates All We Imagine As Light team & Santosh Sivan for their triumph at Cannes 2024, see pics

Along with them, Santosh Sivan, who was honoured with the Pierre Angenieux ExcelLens in Cinematography Award, was also felicitated at the event.

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According to a report in Deadline, the film All We Imagine As Light was shot over a period of 40 days, capturing the essence of late summer in Mumbai before transitioning to the rainy coastal town of Ratnagiri. The report further states that All We Imagine As Light is a French-Indian co-production, in collaboration with Paris-based producers Hakim and Julien Graff (Petit Chaos) and Zico Maitra of Mumbai's Chalk & Cheese Films.

As per the official Cannes website, the film, presented in both Malayalam and Hindi, follows the lives of Nurse Prabha's life in Mumbai which is disrupted by a surprise gift from her estranged husband. The unexpected gesture throws her routine into disarray. Sharing a cramped apartment with her younger roommate, Anu, tensions rise as Anu desperately searches for a private space to be with her boyfriend. The city offers no solace, forcing them to dream of escape. A weekend trip to a quieter beach town finally grants Anu the intimacy she craves. Freed from the constraints of Mumbai, their desires find a way to blossom under the open sky.

Payal Kapadia gained international recognition with her 2021 documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section at Cannes and went on to win the Golden Eye for best documentary.