All We Imagine as Light

In Mumbai, a city of contrast and change, two hospital nurses, one with an absent husband, and the other with a secret boyfriend from a different religion, share a flat. A third woman, a widow who cooks at the hospital, may soon be without a home. Out of commonplace problems, Payal Kapadia, a film artist with an eye for beauty and detail, makes a work of such sublimity that it won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year.