Cannes 2021: Payal Kapadia's A Night Of Knowing Nothing To Be Part Of Directors' Fortnight Section
Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia's feature film A Night of Knowing Nothing has been selected as part of the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
Indian
filmmaker
Payal
Kapadia's
feature
film
A
Night
of
Knowing
Nothing
has
been
selected
as
part
of
the
Directors'
Fortnight
section
at
the
2021
Cannes
Film
Festival,
the
organisers
announced
on
Tuesday.
According
to
the
official
website
of
the
Fortnight
section,
other
features
in
the
24-strong
line-up
include
Joanna
Hogg's
The
Souvenir
Part
II;
Ali
&
Ava
by
Clio
Barnard;
Futura
by
Pietro
Marcello;
Alice
Rohrwacher
and
Francesco
Munzi,
and
Europa
by
Haider
Rashid.
Kapadia,
who
divides
her
time
between
Mumbai
and
Paris,
is
returning
to
the
prestigious
European
film
gala
after
she
took
her
short
film
Afternoon
Clouds
to
its
2017
edition.
An
Indo-French
production,
A
Night
of
Knowing
Nothing
will
also
be
screened
at
the
Marseille
Festival
of
Documentary
Film
in
July.
As
per
the
official
website
of
Marseille
festival,
the
logline
of
A
Night
of
Knowing
Nothing
reads:
"L,
a
university
student
in
India,
writes
letters
to
her
estranged
lover,
while
he
is
away.
Through
these
letters,
we
get
a
glimpse
into
the
drastic
changes
taking
place
around
her.
Merging
reality
with
fiction,
dreams,
memories,
fantasies
and
anxieties,
an
amorphous
narrative
unfolds."
The
film
also
received
backing
from
the
Sundance
Institute
Documentary
Fund
Grantees.
Kapadia,
who
has
studied
film
direction
at
the
Film
&
Television
Institute
of
India
(FTII),
also
has
films
such
as
the
documentary
And
What
is
the
Summer
Saying
(2018)
and
"Last
Mango
Before
the
Monsoon",
the
2015
short,
to
her
credit.
Emmanuel
Carrere's
Ouistreham
(Between
Two
Worlds)
will
open
the
Fortnight
section
while
Rachel
Lang's
Our
Men
will
bring
down
the
curtains.
In
the
short
films
segment
of
the
Fortnight
section,
there
are
nine
titles
such
as
Anxious
Body
by
Yoriko
Mizushiri,
El
Espacio
Sideral
(The
Sidereal
Space)
by
Sebastian
Schjaer,
Simone
Est
Partie
(Simone
Is
Gone)
by
Mathilde
Chavanne
and
Sycorax
by
Lois
Patino
and
Matias
Pineiro,
among
others.
The
2021
Cannes
Film
Festival
is
scheduled
to
take
place
from
July
6
to
July
17.