A Night of Knowing Nothing

QUINZAINE 2021 Feature film | 1h37

World premiere | Film in competition for the Œil d'Or Award | Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

Synopsis

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

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 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 next project, All We Imagine As Light, for which she received support from Ciclic and Hubert Bals Fund, is currently in development.

Actors

Bhumisuta Das

Team

Screenplay
Payal Kapadia, Himanshu Prajapati

Photography
Ranabir Das

Sound
Moinak Bose, Romain Ozanne

Editing
Ranabir Das

Production

Production
Petit Chaos
8 rue Honoré de Balzac
37000 Tours – France
+33 6 51 16 45 82
petitchaosfilms@gmail.com

Publicist
Gloria Zerbinati
gloria.zerbinati@gmail.com
+33 7 86 80 02 82

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