About the film
A Night of Knowing Nothing is a 2021 documentary film directed by Payal Kapadia. An exploration of university student life in India, the film centres on letters written by L., a student at the Film and Television Institute of India, to her estranged boyfriend after they are separated when he is forced to quit film school and denied permission from his family to continue dating L. because she is not of the same caste.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).