Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia on winning Sight and Sound’s best films of 2024 poll with All We Imagine as Light

This delicate, dreamlike tale of loneliness and fellowship, following the lives of three women in Mumbai, is the unforgettable winner of this year’s poll. Here, the director shares her delight at hearing of her victory, outlines the project’s glacial evolution since film school and explains why ‘working on a film is working out the chaos of your mind’.