Person

Payal Kapadia

Directing · Born 1986-01-04 · Mumbai, India

Payal Kapadia (born 4 January 1986) is an Indian filmmaker. She is best known for having won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her film A Night of Knowing Nothing. In 2017, her film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film that was selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Born in Mumbai, Kapadia went to Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh. She got a Bachelor's degree in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She did a one-year Master's degree from Sophia college. She then went on to study film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India, where she was selected on her second attempt.

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  Golden Globe Awards

  Self - Nominee

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  All We Imagine as Light

  Director

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  Shape of Momo

  Executive Producer

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  If on a Winter's Night

  Executive Producer

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  A Night of Knowing Nothing

  Director

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  Afternoon Clouds

  Director

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  Between Day and Night

  Director

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  Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost

  Director

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  Weapons of Mass Destruction

  Director

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  The Last of Them Plagues

  Producer

• 2026Shape of MomoExecutive Producer
• 2025If on a Winter's NightExecutive Producer
• 2024All We Imagine as LightDirector
• 2022A Night of Knowing NothingDirector
• 2021Between Day and NightDirector
• 2018And What Is the Summer Saying?Writer
• 2017Afternoon CloudsDirector
• 2015The Last Mango Before the MonsoonWriter
• 2014Watermelon, Fish and Half GhostDirector
• 2014Memory Of Being HereDirector
• 2012Weapons of Mass DestructionDirector
• 1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee
• —Kapadia's Second Film in Mumbai TrilogyWriter
• —The Last of Them PlaguesProducer