What is the title of the film by Payal Kapadia for which she became the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024 ?
All We Imagine as Light
The film is All We Imagine as Light — option 1.
What was won. Payal Kapadia’s film took the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May 2024 — the festival’s second highest honour, after the Palme d’Or. It was the first Indian film in thirty years to compete in the main competition, and the first ever to win the Grand Prix. The film follows two Malayali nurses living in Mumbai and is largely in Malayalam and Hindi.
| Indian success at Cannes 2024 | Detail |
|---|---|
| All We Imagine as Light — Payal Kapadia | Grand Prix |
| Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know — Chidananda S. Naik | La Cinéf first prize for a student film |
| Anasuya Sengupta, for The Shameless | Best Actress in the Un Certain Regard section — the first Indian to win it |
| Santosh Sivan | Pierre Angenieux tribute for cinematography |
Notice that options 2 and 4 are both genuine films connected with Indian wins at the same festival, which is what makes them such effective distractors; and option 3, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, is a Croatian short that won the Palme d’Or for short film that year. All four options are real Cannes 2024 titles.
About the director. Payal Kapadia trained at the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune. Her documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing had already won the Golden Eye for best documentary at Cannes in 2021, so the Grand Prix was the second major award of her career there.
A note on the prizes. The Palme d’Or is the highest award at Cannes; the Grand Prix ranks immediately below it; then the Jury Prize. In 2024 the Palme d’Or went to Sean Baker’s Anora.
Hence, the answer is All We Imagine as Light.
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