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A Night of Knowing Nothing
IDFA 2021

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Payal Kapadia
France, India
2021
97 min
Dutch Premiere
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This experimental film, winner of the Golden Eye Award in Cannes, begins with a found object: a box of newspaper clippings and letters from a film student to her forbidden lover. While they stood side by side in student protests against the growing influence of right-wing policies at the university, he didn’t stand up to his own parents when they forbade him from seeing her again. Her pain, dreams, experiences, and observations about the changing political climate reflect those of many students in India today.

Shot by the filmmakers and fellow students throughout the country, the varied scenes of everyday, intimate moments, exuberant celebrations, as well as intense demonstrations and confrontations with the police are edited together in an intuitive way and gain meaning from the fictional words of the anonymous student. She never understood why he kept newspaper clippings. Now she does: the times are changing so quickly that our memories can’t keep up.

Nominated for the Beeld en Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award

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Director
Production
    Thomas Hakim for Petit Chaos,
    Julien Graff for Petit Chaos,
    Ranabir Das for Another Birth
    Thomas Hakim for Petit Chaos,
    Julien Graff for Petit Chaos,
    Ranabir Das for Another Birth
Screenplay
World Sales
    Square Eyes
    Square Eyes
Screening copy
    Square Eyes
    Square Eyes
Sound Design
    Moinak Bose,
    Romain Ozanne
    Moinak Bose,
    Romain Ozanne

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