A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Reihe: Film & Protest)

In the organizer's words:

FRA/IND 2021, Documentary film, 96 min

Director: Payal Kapadia

Language: OmeU (Hindi, Bengali with English subtitles)

Content Notes: 1

A student's letters to her secret lover are found at the Film and Television Institute of India. While she mourns her cross-caste love in them, protests against Prime Minister Modi start at the film school. The freedom of the protesters clashes with the increasing discrimination against women, Muslims, Dalits and critical journalists under his Hindu-nationalist government.

"Dancing, loving, demonstrating and discussing as ways of protesting permeate Payal Kapadia's (ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT) debut and illuminate the sadness-soaked 16mm images. Kapadia tells us impressively how close helplessness and hope are in times of upheaval and how important the language of cinema can be in all of this."(Women's Film Festival Dortmund+Cologne)

With an introduction by film historian and curator Vivien Buchhorn.

ENG: While a student mourns her forbidden love, protest against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his increasing discrimination of women, Muslims, Dalits, and critical journalists erupts at a film school in India.
Shot by the filmmaker and fellow students throughout the country, Payal Kapadia (ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT) merges reality with fiction, dreams and memories in beautiful 16-mm-images. (Hindi and Bengali with English subtitles).

With an introduction in German by film historian and curator Vivien Buchhorn.

Price information:

- 7.50 € (regular) - 6.00 € (reduced*) - 3.50 € (with Leipzig Pass, disabled pass, volunteer pass) - Films longer than 130 min: + 1.00 € - Tickets are available online (plus 0.70 € booking fee), remaining tickets at the Box Office.