Following critical acclaim, huge success in cinemas around the world, and recognition for multiple awards including a BAFTA nomination, writer/director Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner, All We Imagine as Light, a story of female friendship set in Mumbai, will be released on BFI Blu-ray/DVD in March, after its streaming release exclusively on BFI Player on 17 February. Extras include filmed interviews with Payal Kapadia and lead actor Kani Kusruti, and Kapadia’s two short films Afternoon Clouds (2017) plus And What Is the Summer Saying? (2018).

Since winning the Cannes Grand Prix in 2024, All We Imagine as Light has gone on to receive wide international recognition. As well as the BAFTA nomination for Film Not In The English Language, it received two Golden Globe nominations, a British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) nomination, and it recently won the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards’ Foreign Language Film of the Year. In the end of year polls for 2024 it was named Film of the Year by the UK’s Sight and Sound magazine, The New York Times, Associated Press and Film Comment critics’ polls.

Prabha (Kani Kusruti, Girls Will be Girls), Anu (Divya Prabha) and Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam, Lost Ladies), work at a hospital in Mumbai, where they grapple daily with the opportunities and hardships of life in the city. Balancing an immersive vérité style with a touch of the surreal, this beautiful drama captures the many shades of life in India’s largest metropolis. The result is a profound, deeply humanist meditation on urban migration and dislocation.

All We Imagine is Light will be released as a Dual Format edition (Blu-ray & DVD) on 3 March 2025 by the BFI at the RRP of £19.99.

BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:

• Introduction by Payal Kapadia (2024, 1 min)
• An Alternative Family: An Interview With Payal Kapadia (2024, 22 mins): the film’s writer and director discusses her education, film and the role of women in Indian cinema
• Trying to Survive: An Interview With Kani Kusruti (2024, 21 mins): the actor discusses her upbringing, career and collaboration on All We Imagine as Light
• Afternoon Clouds (2017, 13 mins): 70-year old widow Kaki and her Nepali domestic help Malti cook together while beholding a flower that only blooms for two days
• And What Is the Summer Saying? (2018, 23 mins): a poetic and dreamlike story set in a forest village where women whisper the secrets of their lost loves
• Theatrical trailer
• First pressing only: Illustrated booklet with a new essay on the film by Elhum Shakerifar, writing by Isabel Stevens, new writing on the short films by Rachel Pronger and an original review by Arjun Sajip, along with film credits