A Night of Knowing Nothing [In-Person Only]
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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About
** Winner of L’Œil d’or for Best Documentary at Cannes! **
In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to tell the story of L, a student at the Film and Television Institute of India, 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. A Night of Knowing Nothing is a vital tapestry of the personal and the political, an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time.
(Payal Kapadia, France & India, 2021, 96 min, in Hindi, Bengali, English & French with English subtitles)
Stills and synopsis courtesy of Cinema Guild.
“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
