Archive: Year 2022
View From The World
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Director
Payal Kapadia
Producers
Julien Graff
Thomas Hakim
Cinematographer
Ranabir Das
Editor
Ranabir Das
Sound
Moinak Bose
Romain Ozanne
Website
Contact
Square Eyes
Wouter Jansen
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2021
France, India
96 min
Color, Black & White
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
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.
