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Payal Kapadia

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Payal Kapadia (born 1986; Mumbai) is an Indian filmmaker. She is best known for having won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her film A Night of Knowing Nothing. In 2017, her film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film that was selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Born in Mumbai, Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh. She got a Bachelor's degree in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She did a one-year Master's degree from Sophia college. She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, where she was selected on her second attempt.

01-01-1986

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Capricorn

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Mumbai, India

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18 Works

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All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
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2024

All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
6.9

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2024

A Night of Knowing Nothing

A Night of Knowing Nothing

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.
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2022

A Night of Knowing Nothing

A Night of Knowing Nothing

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away.
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2022

Between Day and Night

Between Day and Night

Without a love of my own.
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2021

Between Day and Night

Between Day and Night

Without a love of my own.
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2021

And What Is the Summer Saying

And What Is the Summer Saying

The camera sways slightly, setting in a majestic black and white on the intimate stories of a small village bordering the jungle. A mystical and poetic cinematic experience, in which one gladly gets lost.
9.0

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2018

And What Is the Summer Saying

And What Is the Summer Saying

The camera sways slightly, setting in a majestic black and white on the intimate stories of a small village bordering the jungle. A mystical and poetic cinematic experience, in which one gladly gets lost.
9.0

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2018

Afternoon Clouds

Afternoon Clouds

Kaki is a 60-year-old widow who lives with her Nepali maid, Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sailor) from her hometown unexpectedly.
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2017

Afternoon Clouds

Afternoon Clouds

Kaki is a 60-year-old widow who lives with her Nepali maid, Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sailor) from her hometown unexpectedly.
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2017

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.
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2015

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.
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2015

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.
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2015

Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost

Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost

A fable about life in a chawl (urban middle class housing society) where superstitions, relationships and crisis combines the families into a unified community. The film follows a folk tale like structure to talk about a kind of society in old Bombay city and the people that belonged to it in a fantasy tale of lost loves. the film also looks at the idea of infinite time and life cycles.
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2014

Memory Of Being Here

Memory Of Being Here

A movement montage exercise.
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2014

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Food and eating habits are deeply ingrained in the spiritual understanding of the human body and mind. For instance, in Hindu traditions, food is referred to as ‘Brahaman’, or God. This led me to consider, on a spiritual level, what we are doing with food today. What happens if we mutilate the basis for our existence?
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2012

Kapadia's Second Film in Mumbai Trilogy

Kapadia's Second Film in Mumbai Trilogy

Payal Kapadia's second entry in the Mumbai trilogy after All We Imagine as Light.
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Kapadia's Second Film in Mumbai Trilogy

Kapadia's Second Film in Mumbai Trilogy

Payal Kapadia's second entry in the Mumbai trilogy after All We Imagine as Light.
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