It sadly didn't eke its way into that stacked Best Picture category at the 2025 Oscars, but Payal Kapadia's fiction feature debut "All We Imagine as Light" bested big-budget contenders like "Wicked" and controversy-stoking titles like "Emilia Perez" as this writer's favorite film of the past year. And it's officially now available to stream via VOD and digital platforms.
Written and directed by Kapadia, "All We Imagine as Light" is centered on Prabha (played by Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha), two Malayali nurses living together in bustling, working-class Mumbai. Both women are dealing with complications and seeking connections in their personal lives. The more straightlaced Prabha has an estranged husband — the product of an arranged marriage — who lives in Germany and an interested doctor who works at her hospital.
