A Night of Knowing Nothing
Synopsis :
In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to tell the story of L, a student at the Film and Television Institute of India, writing to her estranged lover while he is away.
Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country.
A Night Of Knowing Nothing is a vital tapestry of the personal and the political, an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time.
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Director :
Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker and artist. She studies Film Direction at the Film & Television Insitute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What is the Summer Saying premiered respectively at the Cinéfondation and the Berlinale.
She is a Berlinale Talents alumna and participated in 2019 at the Cinéfondation—Résidence du Festival de Cannes.
Her first feature length film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, was selected for Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2021, where it won the Golden Eye Prize for Best Documentary.
Her next project, All We Imagine As Light, which received support from CICLIC, Hubert Bals Fund & PJLF Arts Fund, is currently in development.