A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING

Payal Kapadia

France, India

- 2019

Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, the film depicts a story of forbidden love between two young girls through a series of letters found at the Film and Television Institute of India. Through their epistolary relationship, we not only discover a romance cut short by the unforgiving caste system, but also glimpse the drastic changes taking place around them, the university strikes and the rebellious spirit of Indian youth.

Payal Kapadia

Filmmaker and artist born in Bombay in 1986.She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. Her short films ‘Afternoon Clouds’ (2017) and ‘And What Is The Summer Saying?’ (2018) premiered at the Cannes Cinéfondation and the Berlinale, where she was an alumna of the Berlinale Talents programme and 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’, is currently in development.