Biography
Payal Kapadia is an Indian film director and screenwriter. She was born on 4 January 1986 in Mumbai and studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India.
Her debut feature documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) won the L'Œil d'Or at Cannes. Her first fiction feature, All We Imagine as Light (2024), which she also wrote, won the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first Indian film in the main competition in 30 years and the first by an Indian woman director.
