And What Is the Summer Saying

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker and artist. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her work deals with that which is not easily visible, hidden somewhere in the folds of memory and dreams. It is between minor, ephemeral feminine gestures where she tries to find the truth that makes up her practice. Her film Afternoon Clouds premiered at Cinefondation, (Cannes film Festival, 2017). Her experimental documentary And What is the Summer Saying had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale Shorts, 2018). It went on to receive the Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (2018).

Kapadia’s experimental short The Last Mango Before Monsoon was premiered at the Oberhausen International Film Festival (2015), where she was awarded FIPRESCI Prize and Special Jury Prize. The film received other awards, including Best Film and Best Editing at the Mumbai International Film Festival (2016), the Toto Award for Young Indian Artist, and a Special Mention at Filmadrid. Presently Payal is working on making her first feature film All We Imagine as Light which she developed at the PJLF Three Rivers Residency, Rome. She was selected to the 2019 Berlinale Talents Programme.