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Women Make Up One-Third of the Best Director Nominees at the 2025 Golden Globes

Congratulations are in order for Coralie Fargeat and Payal Kapadia!

Marie Claire · Dec 9, 2024

Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ disrupts popular narratives of Mumbai

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s new film, All We Imagine as Light, won the prestigious Grand Prix award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in May. The film exhibits an Indianness that is distinctive from the one most frequently represented globally.

The Conversation · Dec 4, 2024

India's 'All We Imagine as Light' WINS Best International film at Gotham Awards; Payal Kapadia tipped to score Best Director Oscar nomination

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s 'All We Imagine as Light' scooped up the Best International Feature award at the 2024 Gotham Awards, held on Monday night in New York City.

The Times of India · Dec 3, 2024

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Director’s Cut with Payal Kapadia: An oral history of All We Imagine As Light

Six months is a long time in anyone’s life. In writer-director Payal Kapadia’s case, it’s the amount of time it took for her to travel from, as she told me this summer, fame “is freaking me out a bit” to, as she said when we spoke recently, “maybe I’m not…

Newslaundry · Dec 1, 2024

All We Imagine As Light review – Cannes prize-winning Indian drama is a quiet, tender marvel

Payal Kapadia’s poetic, everyday tale of three women who work at the same hospital is all the more remarkable for being her fiction feature debut

The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2024

All We Imagine as Light’s beautiful loneliness will speak to your soul

5/5 Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama – which became the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix award at Cannes – revolves around three lonely women who find one another in an isolating metropolis

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024

Kiran Rao on Lost Ladies journey to Oscars: ‘We stand on backs of women who came before us’

Director speaks to The Independent about her film which is India’s official entry for best international film at the 97th Academy Awards

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2024

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Payal Kapadia, director of 'All We Imagine as Light,' sees another way

Payal Kapadia's “All We Imagine as Light" is about as rich a movie experience as you’ll find this year

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2024

‘Women are made to feel as if they’re against each other’: the hit Indian film that challenges the patriarchy

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light wowed Cannes with its portrayal of the struggles of women in Mumbai. She talks about inequality, misogyny – and being haunted

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2024

Hafta letters: Israel, Gaza series, journalists

Hello to all,I have a few suggestions for the new title for Jayashree:EXPERT – Executive Extraordinaire for Promos, Editorials, Recordings, and Tales.EDITOR – Executive Director of Integrated Tales, Output, and Recordings.CREATOR – Chief of Recordings, Editorials, and Tales across the online realm.LEADER – Longform, Editorial, and Audio Director of Exceptional…

Newslaundry · Oct 12, 2024

At the New York Film Festival, an art form at play

The movie year tends to come into focus at the New York Film Festival, which prizes itself on being a curated gathering of the best cinema from around the world

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2024

India chooses quirky comedy over Cannes winner for its Oscars pick

Laapataa Ladies was chosen despite All We Imagine as Light already winning international accolades

The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2024

Cannes-winning Indian film All We Imagine as Light shortlisted for Oscars by France

Payal Kapadia’s feature becomes first Indian film ever to win Grand Prix at Cannes

The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2024

Melbourne international film festival 2024: 10 things to see, from Megalopolis to new Cronenberg

Plus Cate Blanchett as a hapless German chancellor, India’s first film to compete at Cannes in three decades, and a restored Wake in Fright – with a new score

The Guardian - AU · Jul 11, 2024

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Wallpaper · May 28, 2024

Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights: our verdict is in

What to watch or not to watch – cut to the Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights

The Independent UK · May 28, 2024

Indian filmmaker shunned by cinema establishment wins Cannes grand prize

Payal Kapadia, who won the prestigious Grand Prix, faced disciplinary action by her alma mater and still has a pending case registered against her

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2024

Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to share best acting award in the film Emilia Pérez

Radio France Internationale · May 25, 2024

The winners at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival ended Saturday in the south of France with the awarding of its top prize, the Palme d'Or. Here is a list of the winners:

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France 24 · May 25, 2024

Sean Baker’s sex-worker romance ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or in Cannes

Sean Baker’s “Anora”, a whirlwind Brooklyn odyssey about an erotic dancer who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Palme d’Or on Saturday as female-focused stories dominated the awards at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2024

Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders

While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts

France 24 · May 25, 2024

Women at the helm as Indian films make a big splash in Cannes

Indian cinema has enjoyed a bumper year in Cannes, with seven films from the country screening across the festival’s various strands. FRANCE 24 spoke to filmmaker Payal Kapadia, India's first Palme d’Or contender in 30 years with her “All We Imagine as Light”, and the cast and director of police…

The Independent UK · May 25, 2024

The 8 best movies we saw at Cannes Film Festival 2024

The best of this year’s festival as selected by Jacob Stolworthy, including a controversial body horror, one of the bleakest films in history – and definitely not ‘Megalopolis’

France 24 · May 24, 2024

Escaped Iranian director wraps up wide-open race for Cannes Palme d’Or

The race for the Palme d’Or wound up with a bang on Friday with the screening of escaped Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, adding a geopolitically charged red-carpet appearance to a 77th Cannes Film Festival that has delivered several strong contenders for the top prize…

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024

The most political apolitical festival ever? Here’s how Cannes 2024 went – and who will win

There were no overt boycotts this year, but there were entries about theocracy, Trump and the far right. There was still room for love, though – and sex. Here’s who I think will win, and my alternative ‘Braddies’ awards

The Hindu · Apr 12, 2024

Cannes 2024: Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ to compete for the Palme d’Or

Payal Kapadia’s drama is the first Indian title in over 40 years to feature in the prestigious In Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival

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