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DocPoint 2022: A Knight of Knowing Nothing

documentary

Duration 1h 37m

Country Prantsusmaa, India

Director Payal Kapadia

Language hindi, bengaali

Subtitle Language inglise

This experimental film, winner of the Golden Eye Award in Cannes, begins with a found object: a box of newspaper clippings and letters from a film student to her forbidden lover. While they stood side by side in student protests against the growing influence of right-wing policies at the university, he didn’t stand up to his own parents when they forbade him from seeing her again. Her pain, dreams, experiences, and observations about the changing political climate reflect those of many students in India today.

Shot by the filmmakers and fellow students throughout the country, the ...Show more

This experimental film, winner of the Golden Eye Award in Cannes, begins with a found object: a box of newspaper clippings and letters from a film student to her forbidden lover. While they stood side by side in student protests against the growing influence of right-wing policies at the university, he didn’t stand up to his own parents when they forbade him from seeing her again. Her pain, dreams, experiences, and observations about the changing political climate reflect those of many students in India today.

Shot by the filmmakers and fellow students throughout the country, the varied scenes of everyday, intimate moments, exuberant celebrations, as well as intense demonstrations and confrontations with the police are edited together in an intuitive way and gain meaning from the fictional words of the anonymous student. She never understood why he kept newspaper clippings. Now she does: the times are changing so quickly that our memories can’t keep up.

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