Payal Kapadia joins Cannes Film Festival's jury

New Delhi: Filmmaker Payal Kapadia is returning to the Cannes Film Festival as part of its prestigious jury after her Grand Prix win at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024 for her debut feature film “All We Imagine As Light”, festival organisers said on Monday. Kapadia, a Film and Television Institute of India graduate, went to the festival to present her short film “Afternoon Clouds” at the Cannes La Cinefondation in 2017, followed by her non-fiction film “A Night of Knowing Nothing”, which won the L'Œil d'or award for best documentary in 2021. Her film “All We Imagine As Light”, an ode to female friendship, love and longing in Mumbai, became the first film from India to be part of Cannes Competition after a 30-year gap.

To be headed by French actor Juliette Binoche, the jury for the upcoming 78th edition of the gala also includes names such as American actor and filmmaker Halle Berry, Italian actor Alba Rohrwacher..