L is a university student studying in India who writes letters to her estranged lover. Blurring lines between reality and fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, A Night Of Knowing Nothing weaves fragments of a romance and moments of domestic life with handheld documentary footage captured around the country over several years and takes us on a vivid and personal journey into the conflicted heart of contemporary India.
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Festival Appearances
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2021 – Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 – Winner Amplify Voices Award
Athens International Film Festival 2021
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival 2022 – Winner Asian Vision Competition
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Payal Kapadia
Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai based filmmaker and artist. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her short films, Afternoon Clouds (2017) and And What is the Summer Saying (2018), premiered respectively at Cinéfondation and Berlinale. She is a Berlinale Talents alumnus and participated in 2019 in Cinéfondation’s Résidence du Festival de Cannes. Her first feature, A Night of Knowing Nothing, was part of the 2021 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection. Her next project, All We Imagine As Light, for which she received support from Ciclic and Hubert Bals Fund, is currently in financing.
Fri, 4 Nov | 10:00 am | Picture Time 1