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L., a student at the Film and Television Institute of India, exchanges letters with K., her boyfriend,
who will abandon her to meet his family’s demands, since L. belongs to a
lower caste. This personal conflict is set against a background of
political turmoil: her fellow students have gone on strike to contest
the nomination of a new director – a television and commercial film
actor, who is an activist of the ruling party. An epistolary film and a
manifesto, A Night of Knowing Nothing is also a defense of
cinema, of a free cinema that quivers with pain and fury, giving us an
account of what is happening today in India, mixing reality with
fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties.
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Cast:
Bhumisuta Das -
Original Title:
A Night of Knowing Nothing -
Country:
India, France -
Year:
2021 - 97’ Subtitles: EN, PT
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 first feature, A Night of Knowing Nothing, premiered in Cannes 2021, at the Director's Fortnight. Her next project, All We Imagine As Light, for which she received support from Ciclic and Hubert Bals Fund, is currently in development.
