‘All We Imagine As Light’ leads Barack Obama’s 2024 recommended movies list

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light has topped former US president Barack Obama's list of recommended films for the year 2024. All We Imagine As Light, a Malayalam-Hindi film that marks Kapadia’s feature directorial debut, was listed on the top, followed by Ralph Fiennes-starrer Conclave; The Piano Lesson by Denzel Washington’s son Malcolm Washington; Mads Mikkelsen’s Danish film Promised Land; and The Seed of the Sacred Fig by exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof. The curated list, which often leads to public interest and discussions, also includes Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two; Anora, which won Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival; Dìdi, a coming-of-age movie by Taiwanese American film director Sean Wang; documentary Sugarcane; and A Complete Unknown, filmmaker James Mangold’s biopic on country music legend Bob Dylan. An official India-French co-production, All We Imagine As Light charted history by becoming the first Indian title from India to win the Grand Prix Award at the Cannes Film Festival in May.