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24 April 2025 — 08:00 pm

All we imagine as light

A film by Payal Kapadia — M/12+
Geust Pedro Prista Anthropologist

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In Mumbai, nurse Prabha's daily routine is disrupted by an unexpected gift from her immigrant husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, struggles to find a place in the city where she can be alone with her boyfriend. A trip to a coastal town finally offers them a space where their desires can unfold. A story of female companionship in daily life where friendship is the driving force for discovering beauty and themselves.

After the screening, there will be a conversation led by anthropologist Pedro Prista, who was invited to share his oblique perspective on this universe in a space of gathering where cinema becomes a tool for thought and transformation.

“All That We Imagine as Light” marks the opening of EscolaNova’s film cycle, titled “The Room of the World” — a space for a gathering where cinema becomes a tool for reflection and change, curated by Candela Varas.

Know + The World's Room

/ Artistic and technical credits

/Genre Romance · Drama   /Nacionality IN, FR, BE, IT   /Year 2024  
/Original version in Hindi   /Subtitles in Portuguese and English  
/Directed by Payal Kapadia  

EscolaNova, Bordeira - Aljezur
24 April 2025 (thu) — 08:00 pm
Running time
115 min
Age Rating
M/12+
Tickets
5€ Single Price

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The World's Room
Curated by Candela Varas


A dark room, a white wall, a few chairs and cushions on a wool rug. Each month, a new film is shown, always accompanied by a special guest, carefully chosen.

A film, once screened, can continue to expand through a dialogue between the audience and someone we invite to think with us. This person's role is to guide the audience in a conversation that goes beyond what the work has already revealed — someone capable of offering unexpected perspectives, suggesting new interpretations, and challenging our perceptions.

We ask whether a film can open itself to worlds beyond its own, and we seek the richness of oblique gazes that lead us through transversal paths of thought and feeling.

With this film programme from EscolaNova, which we call The Room of the World, we wish to rekindle a sense of wonder for the seventh art through a selection of sharp, poetic, political, social, and psychological contemporary cinema curated by Candela Varas in dialogue with guests from various fields of knowledge. A film and a person. A spectacle of images we watch — and then feel within us.


LISTENING

"Have we lost the ability to listen? Or are we simply forgetful — as Davi Kopenawa suggests in the book he published with Bruce Albert, The Falling Sky?
Listening is the central axis of this film programme. New affective bonds are needed between human and non-human beings, between communities, marginalised voices, or even those who do not speak but still manifest. This film selection promotes that reflection — this unforgetting, or recovery of memory — and the recognition of others (human and non-human) in creating and moving a different kind of affect."
— Candela Varas
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