We are excited to announce that filmmaker Payal Kapadia is the 2025 Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award honoree! Join us Thursday, January 9, 2025, at 7:00pm for a preview screening of her film All We Imagine as Light, followed by a Q&A and award presentation.
About all we imagine as light
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by 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 (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)—plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment to create a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
ABOUT PAYAL KAPADIA
Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is The Summer Saying premiered respectively at the Cinéfondation and the Berlinale. Her first feature film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, premiered at 2021 Director’s Fortnight, where it won the Golden Eye for best documentary. Her second feature, All We Imagine as Light, premiered in Cannes 2024 in Official Competition, where it won the Grand Prix.
about the breakthrough artist award
The Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award was established in 2023 to celebrate the bold and innovative film artists who represent the future of cinema. The 2023 honoree was Elegance Bratton (The Inspection) and the 2024 honoree was Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow).
