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Original name: A Night of Knowing Nothing
English name: A Night of Knowing Nothing
Year: 2021
Run time: 96 minutes
Language: Bengali, Hindi
Type (Colour/Black & White): Colour, Black & White
Country: India, France
Director: Payal Kapadia
Producer: Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff, Ranabir Das
Cast: Bhumisuta Das (voice)
Screenplay: Payal Kapadia, Himanshu Prajapati
Cinematographer: Ranabir Das
Editor: Ranabir Das
Sound Designer: Moinak Bose, Romain Ozanne
Production Company: Petit Chaos, Another Birth
Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied film directing at the Film and Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds (2015) and And What Is the Summer Saying (2018) premiered respectively at the Cinéfondation at the Festival de Cannes and the Berlin International Film Festival. A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021), her first feature-length film, had its premiere in the Director's Fortnight at Cannes, where it won the Œil d’Or for Best Documentary. Her most recent film, All We Imagine as Light, premiered at Cannes, where it was awarded the Grand Prix.
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.
