Monday 17 February
10am, 6:30pm
Director Payal Kapadia
Drama
India
Hindi (English subtitles)
118 minutes
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital – head nurse Prabha and Anu – plus their co-worker, cook Parvaty, Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment.
A captivating visual poem about friendship and sisterhood. – Nando Salva – Cinemania
This film plumbs the extraordinary emotions that hum and throb through ordinary life. – Stephen Romei, The Australian
