NEW YORK — Fiction moves stealthily through Payal Kapadia’s films.

Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, writer-director Payal Kapadia's intimate spell of a movie shows a complex side of India that ...

“All We Imagine as Light,” in theaters Friday, has been widely celebrated since its Cannes premiere, and Kapadia heralded as ...

Prabha (Kani Kusruti) has a husband from an arranged marriage who she doesn’t see and rarely speaks to. His life, we learn, is in Germany. She gets an occasional, ominous physical reminder of ...

This enveloping drama, which centers two women in Mumbai, is about solidarity between women, about making ends meeting, and ...

It is as calming and undemonstrative as its heroine, Prabha (Kani Kusruti), a middle-aged nurse in Mumbai who mostly suffers her patriarchal culture in watchful silence. This is the kind of film ...

This image released by Janus and Sideshow Films shows Kani Kusruti, left, and Divya Prabha in a scene from "All We Imagine As Light." (Janus and Sideshow Films via AP) The rhythms of bustling ...

Directed by Kappela-fame director Muhammed Musthafa, the Malayalam revenge drama also stars Kani Kusruti, Maala Parvathi, Kannan Nayar, Jobin Das, among others. The film revolves around a group of ...