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Payal Kapadia (born 4 January 1986)[1] is an Indian filmmaker. In 2017, her short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival.[2] 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.[3][4][5]
Payal Kapadia | |
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Payal Kapadia at 2024 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | 4 January 1986 Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Film and Television Institute of India |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 2014–present |
In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light.[6][7] It also earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.[8]
Payal Kapadia was born in Mumbai on 4 January 1986[1][9] to painter and video artist Nalini Malani and psychoanalyst Shailesh Kapadia.[10][better source needed]
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,and also earned a one-year master's degree from Sophia College for Women.[11]
She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India,[12] 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.[11]
In 2017, Kapadia's short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival.[13]
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.[14][15][16]
In 2024, Kapadia won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light.[17][18] It also earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director,[8] and was a special feature in the Limelight section of the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it will be screened on 30 January 2025.[19]
| 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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