Payal Kapadia (filmmaker)

Payal Kapadia
Payal Kapadia at 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Born (1986-01-04) 4 January 1986
Mumbai, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materFilm and Television Institute of India
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
Years active2014–present

Payal Kapadia (born 4 January 1986) is an Indian filmmaker. In 2017, her short film Afternoon Clouds was the only Indian film selected for the 70th Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, she won the Golden Eye award for best documentary film at the 74th Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing.

In 2024, she won the Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival for her fiction feature debut All We Imagine as Light. It also earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director.