MAMI Mumbai Film Festival will open with Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine as Light’

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light will be the opening title at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival that will run between October 19 and 24. Kapadia’s first feature – she has previously made shorts and documentaries – won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year. Kapadia is the first Indian ever to win the honour.

All We Imagine As Light, about three women working at a hospital in Mumbai and their encounters with love and loss, will be released by Rana Daggubati over the next few weeks in India. The multi-lingual movie was overlooked as India’s entry in the international feature category at the Oscars in favour of Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies.

Interim festival director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur said in a press statement, “We’re delighted to open the festival this year with a film that has the city of Mumbai at its heart. All We Imagine as Light will always be remembered as a film that won the Grand Prix at Cannes, but it is also an independent film that faced many challenges, especially in finding funding, before it debuted in competition at Cannes and won accolades all over the world.”Read more