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Payal Kapadia (born 1986) is an Indian filmmaker. In 2017, her short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival.[1] In 2021, she won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 74th Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing.[2][3][4] In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light.[5][6]
Payal Kapadia | |
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Payal Kapadia at 2024 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | 1986 (age 37–38) Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Film and Television Institute of India |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2014–present |
Born in Mumbai in 1986 to painter and video artist Nalini Malani,[7] Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School, a boarding school in Andhra Pradesh. Here she had her first exposure to avant-garde filmmakers like Ritwik Ghatak and Andrei Tarkovsky as she was part of the school's film club. She studied at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She got a one-year master's degree from Sophia College, Mumbai.[8] She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India,[9] where she was selected on her second attempt in 2012. In between for five years she worked in Mumbai, in advertising and assisting a video artist.[8]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Other | |||
| 2014 | Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost | Yes | No | No | Short film |
| 2015 | The Last Mango Before the Monsoon | Yes | Yes | Editor | |
| 2017 | Afternoon Clouds | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2018 | And What is the Summer Saying † | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2021 | A Night of Knowing Nothing † | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2024 | All We Imagine as Light | Yes | Yes | No | |
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