Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia

Born 1986
Mumbai, India

Biography

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbay based filmmaker and artist. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is the Summer Saying 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 length film A Night of Knowing Nothing was selected for Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2021 where it won the Golden Eye Prize for Best Documentary. Her next project, All We Imagine As Light, received support from CICLIC, Hubert Bals Fund and PJLF Arts Fund.

Festival de Cine de Sevilla

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