Cannes’ Golden Eye goes to A Night of Knowing Nothing
- CANNES 2021: Payal Kapadia’s film has taken home the award for the best documentary screened at the festival; Sergei Loznitsa also scooped a prize
Managed by SCAM and serving to recognise the best documentaries screened in the various selections of the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Eye Award, handed out this year by a jury chaired by Ezra Edelman (who was flanked by Julie Bertuccelli, Déborah François, Iris Brey and Orwa Nyrabia), was conferred upon A Night of Knowing Nothing [+see also:
film review
interview: Payal Kapadia
film profile] by India’s Payal Kapadia, a production by French outfit Petit Chaos that was first unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight. The film revolves around an Indian university student who writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
A Special Jury Prize was bestowed upon Babi Yar. Context [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sergei Loznitsa
film profile] by Ukraine’s Sergei Loznitsa, premiered as a Special Screening in the Official Selection. It was produced by the Netherlands’ Atoms & Void together with the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.
(Translated from French)
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