14th annual Women Take the Reel Film Festival: All We Imagine As Light

Come join us for a special screening of All We Imagne As Light at the Bartos Theatre! The Women Take the Reel Film Festival is proud to feature this critcally acclaimed and award winning film directed by Payal Kapadia as part of its lineup. This award-winning film festival favorite is a transcendent picture of love and sisterhood, a poetic portrait of three women navigating life in Mumbai. The women’s stories, challenges and joys intertwine as Kapadia artfully details the unspoken layers of yearning that weave through life in a bustling nocturnal city.

See what critics are saying: "One of the year’s great movies, in any form, style, or language."— Justin Chang, The New Yorker (watch the trailer:

The evening begins with a pre-screening "mocktail hour" then flows into the film. Immediately after the film will be a conversation weaving themes around identity, loss, and belonging, situating South Asian women and the solidarity they find between one another at its nexus. The conversation will be led by scholars from the GCWS.

• 6-6:30pm - Mocktails & Mingling: Enjoy light apps as you chat with friends and fellow film lovers at the intimate Bartos Theatre venue.
• 6:30-8:30pm - Film Screening: All We Imagine As Light (award-winning)
• 8:30-9:15pm - Lively Conversation: Scholars in the fields of South Asian Studies will be conversation with each other and the audience after the screening.

This screening is free of charge and open to the public. RSVP is required in order to attend. Doors will open at 5:30pm.

If you have any accessibility accommodations needed to view the film, please let us know how we can meet your needs. Contact Vanmey: [email protected]

*This annual film festival is a collaborative effort among Women's and Gender Studies departments involved in the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (as well as select institutions/universities aligned with its mission) that features films about issues relating to gender, race, sexuality, class and/or feminism.

This event would not be possible without the help of the Program in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, the Program for Women's and Gender Studies at MIT, and the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality.

Host or Publisher Consortium for Graduate Studies in GCWS