00:00 Payal Kapadia has brought a proud movement to the Indian film industry.
00:05 After 30 years, an Indian film will compete at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in the main competition.
00:15 Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Life is one of the names nominated for Palme d'Or award.
00:23 The festival will run between 14 and 25 May.
00:27 Before this, Swaham by Shahji and Karun made a place in the main competition in the year 1994.
00:37 Though this is Payal Kapadia's debut fiction feature,
00:41 she is not the new face at such international film festival.
00:45 Her poetic documentary, A Night of Knowing Nothing,
00:49 won the Golden Eye for Best Documentary at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
00:56 In 2017, Afternoon Clouds was selected for screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:03 And, And What Is The Samoar Saying is another notable work by Kapadia.
01:09 Apart from Kapadia's All We Imagine As Life,
01:13 some other films which will be part of the competition are
01:17 Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis,
01:21 Sean Baker's Anora, Piorgos Lanthimos' Kind of Kindness,
01:26 Paul Schrader's O Canada,
01:29 Magnus Von Hans' The Girl with the Needle,
01:33 and Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenon.
01:36 Talking about the film, All We Imagine As Life,
01:39 it is an Indo-French production, a story of a nurse named Prabha and her younger roommate,
01:46 Anu, who go on a road trip and find their own space for their dreams to manifest.
01:52 Another proud thing is Payal is one of the four female directors
01:58 who have been selected at Cannes Film Festival.
02:01 Earlier, some Indian movies got selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival were
02:08 Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar, Vishanta Ram's Amar Bhoopali, Raj Kapoor's Aawara,
02:14 Satyajit Ray's Parash Pathar, M. S. Satyu's Garam Hava, and Brinal Sen's Kharji.
02:21 Among this, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand was the only film which won the Palm D'Or award.
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