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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. 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. In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light.
Biography
Born in Mumbai in 1986 to painter and video artist Nalini Malani, 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. She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, 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.
Filmography
Accolades
References
External links
Payal Kapadia at IMDb
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- Payal Kapadia (filmmaker)
- Payal Kapadia
- Kapadia
- Dimple Kapadia
- All We Imagine as Light
- Anora (film)
- 2024 Cannes Film Festival
- Film and Television Institute of India
- 77th Locarno Film Festival
- 17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
