Payal Kapadia, Indian filmmaker, was born in 1986 in Mumbai.
Payal Kapadia developed an early interest in cinema, particularly experimental cinema, which she discovered at film festivals in Mumbai.
While studying at the Film and Television Institute of India, she experienced her first political engagements. These experiences influenced her first feature film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, for which she received the Golden Eye award at Cannes in 2021, as well as a Special Mention at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival.
Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the film takes a freeform approach to question the state of the world, playing on the ambiguities of images, echoing the post-truth era. She continues to explore this hybridization in All…
Payal Kapadia, Indian filmmaker, was born in 1986 in Mumbai.
Payal Kapadia developed an early interest in cinema, particularly experimental cinema, which she discovered at film festivals in Mumbai.
While studying at the Film and Television Institute of India, she experienced her first political engagements. These experiences influenced her first feature film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, for which she received the Golden Eye award at Cannes in 2021, as well as a Special Mention at the Créteil International Women’s Film Festival.
Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the film takes a freeform approach to question the state of the world, playing on the ambiguities of images, echoing the post-truth era. She continues to explore this hybridization in All We Imagine as Light, a diptych fiction infused with documentary elements and an impressionistic dimension.
This portrayal of India through the stories of three women won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 2024.
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