The official section of Cannes 2024 was unveiled on Thursday. The competition will be held from May 14 to May 25.

In 2021, Kapadia won the Golden Eye for Best Documentary for 'The Night O Knowing Nothing'.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, whose film 'Kennedy' had its world premiere at Cannes last year, shared the announcement regarding 'Al We Imagine As Light' on Instagram Stories. He wrote: "Indian film in competition at @festivaldecanne, congratulations Payal Kapadia".

Some of the other films in the competition list are: Al Abbasi's 'The Apprentice', Karim Enouz's 'Motel Destino', Andrea Arnold's 'Bird', Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Perez', Sean Baker's 'Anora' and 'The David Cronenberg 'Shroud' by.

Kapadia is a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.

Before this, she has directed films like 'Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost', 'The Last Mango Before the Monsoon' and 'Afternoon Clouds'.