Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light wins the prestigious Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival

India is unstoppable at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. A day after Anasuya Sengupta won the ‘Un Certain Regard Prize’ Best Actress award for her performance in The Shameless, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light has scripted history too. The film won the prestigious ‘Grand Prix’ award at the world-renowned film festival on Saturday night.

The film was screened on Thursday night and is the first Indian film to compete in 30 years. It is also the first film by an Indian female director to be showcased in the main competition. 

All We Imagine As Light wins big at Cannes 2024

Announcing the win on their official Instagram handle, Festival de Cannes wrote, “Le Grand Prix est attribué à ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT de PAYAL KAPADIA. – The Jury Prize goes to ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by PAYAL KAPADIA.”

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Commenting on it, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar wrote, “This is so good 🥂Congratulations to all the amazing women on that stage.” After the award announcement, social media users began pouring love for the movie and the young filmmaker. Many even called it a possible submission for the next ‘Oscar Awards’.

Mitakshara Kumar on All We Imagine as Light

Heeramandi co-director Mitakshara Kumar recently spoke about Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light competing at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. While talking about fashion being given more importance than film at the film festival, she told Bollywood Bubble, “We should be talking and celebrating Payal Kapadia. Her film is competing for the first time in I don’t know how many years. But rather than talking about her, we are only seeing the silhouettes and costumes that people are wearing.” She added, “I think the prime focus of a film festival should be films. And the biggest example right now is Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light. “

Congratulations, team All We Imagine as Light.

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