In “a brilliantly fragmentary work of witnessing” (New York Film Festival) the passions of youth, Payal Kapadia’s hybrid film combines letters written by a student at the Film and Television Institute of India (from which Kapadia graduated) with documentary images of student protests filmed over several years across India. Kapadia observed, “In our country, love is a very political entity (I guess that is true everywhere). Many of my influences come from daily life and the struggles that are faced by those around me. There are many artists too that have inspired me, which include the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, whose poem ‘Another Birth’ has also [lent] its name to our production company. Others include painter Arpita Singh, the writers John Berger and Rainer Maria Rilke, and filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Aki Kaurismäki.” 

Debashree Mukherjee's Film Quarterly article provides an in-depth discussion: “A Night of Knowing Nothing: Cinema, Love, and Collective Struggle”