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"A graduate of the National Film and Television Institute of India, Payal Kapadia is a brilliant new voice in Indian cinema. Her 2021 debut feature, A Night of Knowing Nothing, won Best Documentary at Cannes and was a success at the New York Film Festival. The film is at once an intimate letter to an estranged lover and a cri de coeur for Indian youth to rise up against the sectarian and caste-based violence that has grown increasingly dire during the Narendra Modi regime.
Kapadia observes, “In our country, love is a very political entity (I guess that is true everywhere). Many of my influences come from daily life and the struggles that are faced by those around me. There are many artists too that have inspired me, which include the Iranian poet Farough Farokhzaad, whose poem “Another Birth” has also lended its name to our production company. Others include painter Arpita Singh, the writers John Berger and Rainer Maria Rilke, and filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Aki Kaurismäki.” - The Museum of Modern Art