The countdown has begun for the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, and it is creating a lot of buzz in India. After all, director Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light has become the first Indian film to compete at the global event in 30 years. The film would compete for the top honours during the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival, scheduled from May 14 to May 25. The official X page of the Cannes Film Festival shared a list of films from worldwide that will be screened in the Competition section. Cannes 2024: Filmmaker George Lucas to Receive Honorary Palma d’Or at The Film Festival.

"ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT - Payal KAPADIA #Competition #Cannes2024," the festival said in a post. This is not the first time Kapadia's work has been shown at Cannes. In 2021, her A Night of Not Knowing Nothing won the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary, playing in the Director's Fortnight, an important Cannes sidebar. Reportedly, in 2017, Kapadia's Afternoon Clouds was part of the Cinefondation section, which also takes place during the Festival along with the Critics' Week and Director's Fortnight. Kapadia's feature will compete with the latest films by some of the biggest names in world cinema. Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, Sean Baker's Anora, Yorgos Lanthimos's Kinds Of Kindness, Paul Schrader's Oh Canada, Magnus Von Horn's The Girl With The Needle and Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope too have been picked for the festival's competition section, among others. Cannes Film Festival 2024 To Open With Quentin Dupieux's French Comedy 'Le Deuxième Acte' on May 14.

Indian Director Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light Selected for Cannes Film Festival Competition

All We Imagine As Light revolves around Prabha, a nurse, who receives an unexpected gift from her long-estranged husband that makes her uneasy. In the meantime, her younger friend and roommate, Anu, is desperately trying to find a quiet spot to be with her lover. Eventuality, the two women take a road trip to a beach town where they find space for their dreams and desires to flow. British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri's film Santosh has also been selected for the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.