A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING

A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING

    Price: $395.00

    Code: 2639

    A film by Payal Kapadia
    2021, 90 minutes

    Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protest widespread discrimination.

    In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to create a vital tapestry of the personal and the political. With its dreamlike editing rhythms and a revelatory use of sound, A Night of Knowing Nothing is both an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time.


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    Festivals & Awards

    Winner - Oeil d'Or (Best Documentary), Cannes Film Festival
    Winner - Amplify Voices Award, Toronto International Film Festival
    Winner - Emerging Cinematic Vision Award, Camden International Film Festival
    Winner - Altered States Competition, Mar del Plata Film Festival
    Official Selection - New York Film Festival
    Official Selection - Busan International Film Festival
    Official Selection - IDFA
    Official Selection - Viennale
    Official Selection - FID Marseille
    Official Selection - DOC NYC



    Reviews

    "The best film of the year."
     -Michael Phillips, The Chicago Tribune

    "One of the best student films ever made...imbue[d] with a sense of history unfolding in the moment."
     -Siddhant Adlakha, Indiewire

    "Foregrounds cinema itself as a site of resistance."
     -Michael Sicinski, MUBI Notebook



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