Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied film direction at the Film & 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 A Night of Knowing Nothing premiered at 2021 Director’s Fortnight, where it won the Golden Eye for best documentary. Her second feature All We Imagine as Light premiered in Cannes 2024 in Official Competition, where it won the Grand Prix. The film also was nominated for a Golden Globe as best feature not in the English language.