Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “All We Imagine as Light”, showing Jan. 10-16 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.
“All We Imagine as Light” is nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture (Non-English Language) and Best Director for Payal Kapadia.
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital — head nurse Prabha and recent hire Anu — plus their coworker, cook Parvaty, Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment.
Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict 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 village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence.
“All We Imagine as Light” is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
“A glorious film!” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“A masterclass of emotions — deeply reflective, philosophical, and meditative in its approach. A milestone for Indian cinema.” — Time Magazine
“A Standout. Astonishing.” Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
“All We Imagine as Light” will be shown at Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre Jan. 10-16. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Jan. 10, 11, 12 and 13 at 3:30 p.m; and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 14, 15 and 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12 general admission, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.