Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, starring Kani Kusruti and Vidya Prabha as Malayali nurses, has been selected for the Competition section – the first Indian title to bid for the Palme d’Or top prize since Shaji Karun’s Swaham in 1994. Her classroom peer Maisam Ali’s In Retreat is in the ACID Cannes sidebar programme, which is run by the Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema. (Reported the Scroll.in)
In Retreat follows the inner and outer journey of an urban nomad pla...