‘A Night of Knowing Nothing - Payal Kapadia’

L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover. 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.

The film will be followed by a prerecorded Q&A.

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 and has won the Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. She is currently preparing her next project, All We Imagine As Light.