- Winner
Cannes Film Festival · Grand Prix (2024) · Winner
- Winner
Asian Film Awards · Best Film (2025) · Winner
- Nominee
Golden Globe Awards · Best Director (2025) · Nominee
- Nominee
Golden Globe Awards · Best Foreign Language Film (2025) · Nominee
- First
First Indian film in Cannes competition in 30 years — and the first ever directed by an Indian woman in the main competition
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Payal Kapadia
1986 – Present
- Genres
- Drama
- Topics
- Belonging
- Region
- South Asia
- Heritage
- India
Biography
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.
