Directed by 
Payal Kapadia, English, 1 hour 58 minutes, France, India, Netherlands, 2024

Join us in screening All We Imagine As Light as part of the annual Women Take The Reel Film Festival. 

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.

The screening will take place on March 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM. Mocktail hour and mingling opens the evening. Scholars in the fields of South Asian Studies will be conversation with each other and the audience after the screening.

This event is free and open to the public.  You must register to attend.

Location:

Bartos Theater at MIT

20 Ames Street - Bldg E15-070

Cambridge, MA 02142