A Night of Knowing Nothing
TITLE
A Night of Knowing Nothing
DIRECTOR
Payal Kapadia
COUNTRY
France, India
YEAR
2021
DURATION
96′
GENRE
Documentary
A Night of Knowing Nothing
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - 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 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, A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING, is part of the 2021 Director's 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.
- Director Payal Kapadia
- Screenplay Payal Kapadia, Himanshu Prajapati
- Cinematography Ranabir Das
- Editing Ranabir Das
- Cast Bhumisuta Das
- Producer/s Ranabir Das, Julien Graff, Thomas Hakim
- Production Company Petit Chaos
- Distributor/s Square eyes
- Project Title A Night of Knowing Nothing
- Project Type Documentary
- Completion Date July 15, 2021
- Country of origin France
- Country of filming India
- Language Bengali, Hindi
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
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 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, A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING, is part of the 2021 Director's 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.
Cannes - Director's Fortnight
L'oeil d'or - Best Documentary, 2021
Toronto International Film Festival
Amplify Voices Award, 2021
