Payal Kapadia

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Payal Kapadia

Bhumisuta Das

L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.

And What Is the Summer Saying

Payal Kapadia

The camera sways slightly, setting in a majestic black and white on the intimate stories of a small village bordering the jungle. A mystical and poetic cinematic experience, in which one gladly gets lost.

Dopahar ke Badal

Payal Kapadia

Trimala Adhikari, Cephas Subba

Kaki is a 60-year-old widow who lives with her Nepali maid, Malti. The film takes place on one afternoon in their house where a flower blossoms in the balcony. Malti meets a boy (a sailor) from her hometown unexpectedly.

The Last Mango Before the Monsoon

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Two technicians set up cameras in a forest to capture animal activity at night. A woman moved away from the forest a long time ago. She yearns for her late husband and the forest.

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Payal Kapadia

Food and eating habits are deeply ingrained in the spiritual understanding of the human body and mind. For instance, in Hindu traditions, food is referred to as ‘Brahaman’, or God. This led me to consider, on a spiritual level, what we are doing with food today. What happens if we mutilate the basis for our existence?

Memory Of Being Here

Payal Kapadia

A movement montage exercise.

Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost

Payal Kapadia

A fable about life in a chawl (urban middle class housing society) where superstitions, relationships and crisis combines the families into a unified community. The film follows a folk tale like structure to talk about a kind of society in old Bombay city and the people that belonged to it in a fantasy tale of lost loves. the film also looks at the idea of infinite time and life cycles.