Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is The Summer Saying premiered respectively at the Cinéfondation and the Berlinale. Her first feature film A Night of Knowing Nothing premiered at the 2021 Director’s Fortnight, where it won the Golden Eye for best documentary. Her second feature All We Imagine as Light competed in the official competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and received the Grand Prix.
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