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Payal Kapadia's Indian Film In The Main Competition At The Cannes Film Festival After 30 Years
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4/12/2024
Payal Kapadia's movie All We Imagine As Light has been selected for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It marked the first Indian movie to go for competition after 30 years.
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Payal Kapadia has brought a proud movement to the Indian film industry.
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After 30 years, an Indian film will compete at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in the main competition.
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Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Life is one of the names nominated for Palme d'Or award.
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The festival will run between 14 and 25 May.
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Before this, Swaham by Shahji and Karun made a place in the main competition in the year 1994.
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Though this is Payal Kapadia's debut fiction feature,
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she is not the new face at such international film festival.
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Her poetic documentary, A Night of Knowing Nothing,
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won the Golden Eye for Best Documentary at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
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In 2017, Afternoon Clouds was selected for screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
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And, And What Is The Samoar Saying is another notable work by Kapadia.
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Apart from Kapadia's All We Imagine As Life,
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some other films which will be part of the competition are
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Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis,
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Sean Baker's Anora, Piorgos Lanthimos' Kind of Kindness,
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Paul Schrader's O Canada,
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Magnus Von Hans' The Girl with the Needle,
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and Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenon.
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Talking about the film, All We Imagine As Life,
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it is an Indo-French production, a story of a nurse named Prabha and her younger roommate,
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Anu, who go on a road trip and find their own space for their dreams to manifest.
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Another proud thing is Payal is one of the four female directors
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who have been selected at Cannes Film Festival.
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Earlier, some Indian movies got selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival were
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Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar, Vishanta Ram's Amar Bhoopali, Raj Kapoor's Aawara,
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Satyajit Ray's Parash Pathar, M. S. Satyu's Garam Hava, and Brinal Sen's Kharji.
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Among this, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand was the only film which won the Palm D'Or award.
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