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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.
India is proud of Payal Kapadia for her historic feat of winning the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her work ‘All We Imagine as Light’. An alumnus of FTII, her remarkable talent continues to shine on the global stage, giving a glimpse of the rich creativity in…
1 day ago · Payal Kapadia: I wanted to make a film about intergenerational friendship and the unlikely friendships that we form in cities. Mumbai—like, I suppose, New York—is a city of people who are ...
1 day ago · When Payal Kapadia finally took her Cannes Grand Prix-winning film All We Imagine as Light to Mumbai, it felt like a long-awaited homecoming. In the place she calls home, and where the film is set ...
1 day ago · GROWING UP IN MUMBAI, Payal Kapadia watched her mother, the artist Nalini Malani, paint from nine to five, every day. Regardless of whether there was demand for it, or a commission. She was rigorous about her practice. The same discipline infuses All We Imagine As Light, for which Kapadia, 38, won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year, the first Indian to do so. Now releasing in India (on November 22), the film has won laurels for itself and its maker, who most ...
May 26, 2024 · Director Payal Kapadia, who helmed Malayalam-Hindi language film 'All We Imagine As Light', won India's first Grand Prix Award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. For the unversed, Grand Prix is the second highest honour at Cannes after the coveted Palme d'Or.
May 26, 2024 · Who is Payal Kapadia? Director Payal Kapadia is an alum of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India. Before winning over Cannes with All We Imagine as Light, she had caught everyone’s attention with her film A Night of Knowing Nothing in 2021.
2 days ago · Payal Kapadia: I was making both of the films at the same time. I started writing All We Imagine as Light a long time ago. And A Night of Knowing Nothing was kind of a non-film that became a film. So they were like two parallel streams coming together, somehow, that intersected at points. I think one thing streamed into the other.
Payal Kapadia was born in 1986 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is a director and writer, known for All We Imagine as Light (2024), A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) and Afternoon Clouds (2017).
May 28, 2024 · Filmmaker Payal Kapadia made history Saturday, as she became the first person from India to clinch the prestigious Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the second highest prize after...
