All We Imagine As Light wins Best Film at 2025 Asian Film Awards

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, featuring Santosh star Shahana Goswami and directed by Sandhya Suri, received top accolades at the 2025 Asian Film Awards. The 18th edition of the awards was held on Sunday at the Xiqu Centre located in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District.

The winners’ list was posted on the official website of the Asian Film Awards. All We Imagine… eventually won the award for Best Film. It participated in the contest with Black Dog (China), Exhuma (South Korea), Teki Cometh (Japan), and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong).

All We Imagine…, an official co-production between India and France, made history by being the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival last year.

“We have such amazing work coming out of Asia and we are so proud to be part of that community. And, especially here, because the community is celebrated and I think that it is really important for us to look at all the cinema from Asia and to be part of that… It was already special to be nominated. It’s so great to win this award,” the filmmaker told reporters in a backstage interview.

The acclaimed Malayalam-Hindi film centers on two nurses, Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha), from Kerala as they explore life and love in Mumbai with their friend and cook, Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam).