Kapadia’s first fully narrative film, “All We Imagine as Light,” begins more like a documentary, surveying Mumbai, particularly at night, before gently gravitating toward three women, all of them hospital workers, who are juggling their workaday realities, and those of India’s stratified society, with their own aspirations.

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia's drama about three generations of women dealing with love, lust and loss in modern-day Mumbai is like a sneak attack on your soul

The auteur took the opportunity to showcase her love for Pier Paolo Pasolini and Aki Kaurismäki and explain why Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil" is a film everyone should see.

Writer-director Payal Kapadia’s vibrant drama follows two nurses who share an apartment in the Indian city.