Your Guide to What's On in Penrith

• Directed by Payal Kapadia
• Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
• 118mins | 2024 | 

In Mumbai, thoughtful Nurse Prabha’s routine is upset when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger, flightier and rebellious roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her secret boyfriend. Their colleague Parvaty fights to stay in her home without any requisite paperwork left by her late husband. A trip to a beach town allows them each to find a space for their desires to manifest.

 

 

Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it was awarded the Grand Prix.

 

 

• - Winner of theGrand Prix at Cannes Film Festival
• - Sight & Sound’s Best Film of 2024

 

 

✭✭✭✭✭ ‘It’s a marvel of a movie' - Wendy Ide, The Observer

 

 

✭✭✭✭✭ ‘‘A magical ode to nocturnal Mumbai’‘...bound to be one of those international films that breakout of the art-house festival circuit and into cinemas and hearts everywhere’ - Nicholas Barber, BBC Culture