Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light, Santosh star Shahana Goswami and its director Sandhya Suri won top honours at the Asian Film Awards 2025. The 18th edition of the awards took place on Sunday at the Xiqu Centre in the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong.
The Asian Film Awards shared the winners list on its official website. All We Imagine… went on to win the Best Film award. It was in the competition alongside Black Dog (China), Exhuma (South Korea), Teki Cometh (Japan) and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong).
Kapadia, who won the Grand Prix Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for All We Imagine…, said being honoured for her film in a “wonderful place for cinema” like Hong Kong was a special feeling.
“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.
All We Imagine…, an official India-French co-production, charted history by becoming the first Indian title from India to win the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival last year.
The widely-feted Malayalam-Hindi movie follows two nurses Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) from Kerala navigating life and love in Mumbai along with their friend and cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam).
