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Mumbai-based filmmaker Payal Kapadia has bagged the Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) award for Best Documentary for her film "A Night of Knowing Nothing" at Cannes Film Festival."A Night of Knowing Nothing" has emerged the winner in a list of 28 documentaries submitted from around the world.The announcement was made through the Twitter account of Cannes Independent movie selection handle Quinzaine Des Real on Saturday.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.

Naman Ramachandran India’s Payal Kapadia is back at Cannes with her debut feature, “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” a Directors’ Fortnight selection.A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India, Kapadia’s 2017 short “Afternoon Clouds” premiered at Cannes as a Cinéfondation selection.For “A Night of Knowing Nothing” Kapadia and the film’s cinematographer and editor Ranabir Das began shooting footage of their friends in 2017 on a small camera without a concrete plan and also gathered footage from their friends. In 2019, Kapadia showed the footage to the project’s French producers Petit Chaos, and they were excited by the images.“This is when we started to really conceive the film,” Kapadia said.