Payal Kapadia Wins Best Documentary Award In Cannes
3 years, 5 months ago

Payal Kapadia Wins Best Documentary Award In Cannes

ABP News  

Mumbai-based filmmaker Payal Kapadia has bagged the Oeil d'or award for Best Documentary for her film "A Night of Knowing Nothing" at Cannes Film Festival. The tweet read: "The Oeil d'Or, the award for best documentary presented at the Cannes Film Festival all sections combined, goes to A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING by Payal Kapadia, a film selected at the Directors' Fortnight. Our warmest congratulations to Payal Kapadia and the entire film crew!" Other names in the jury were French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli, French actor Deborah Francois, Franco-American film critic Iris Brey and Orwa Nyrabia, artistic director of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

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India's Payal Kapadia Wins Best Documentary Award in Cannes
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News 18  

Director Payal Kapadia’s “A Night of Knowing Nothing” won the Oeil d’or award for best documentary at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. Kapadia’s film was competing for the award against Todd Haynes’ “The Velvet Underground”, Andrea Arnold’s “Cow”, Oliver Stone’s “JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass”, Marco Bellocchio’s “Marx Can Wait”, Sergei Loznitsa’s “Babi Yar. “The Oeil d’Or, …

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The Quint  

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