• Director(s)

    Payal Kapadia

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Release date

    29/11/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    99m

  • Cast

    Bhumisuta Das

Film

A Night of Knowing Nothing

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A student writes unsent letters to her boyfriend in a time of political unrest in this experimental Bengali-language documentary, which contains distressing footage of real violence and themes of persecution and prejudice.…

A student writes unsent letters to her boyfriend in a time of political unrest in this experimental Bengali-language documentary, which contains distressing footage of real violence and themes of persecution and prejudice.

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violence

threat and horror

language

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

nudity

  • Director(s)

    Payal Kapadia

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Release date

    29/11/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    99m

  • Cast

    Bhumisuta Das

strong real threat
Classified Date:
04/12/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute
violence
Footage of real violence includes sight of police roughly manhandling people or striking them with sticks. Other footage shows a masked mob accosting frightened students at a university, resulting in moderate bloody aftermath detail.
threat and horror
Scenes include a sustained and intense sequence of CCTV footage in which a panicked crowd of students is trapped in an enclosed area and attacked by men in riot gear.
language
There is implied use of moderate bad language (‘pussy’), in addition to use of milder terms such as ‘shit’ and ‘damn’.
discrimination
There are references to discriminatory attitudes and behaviour, including violent attacks, and to suicides attributed to discriminatory persecution. Discriminatory terms - such as the term ‘terrorists’ in reference to Muslim people, and ‘untouchables’ in the context of caste discrimination - occur in reported speech. The film carries a clear anti-discrimination message.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are brief references to a news report concerning the rape and murder of a child, as well as undetailed verbal references to women having been threatened with rape by police. The Donald Trump quote ‘Grab them by the pussy’ appears in partially-obscured form in a newspaper headline.
suicide and self-harm
There are undetailed verbal references to people having taken their own lives after facing caste-based discrimination.
injury detail
Scenes depicting real mob violence include black-and-white footage of a distressed woman with blood on her face and hair.
nudity
Brief grainy footage shows a topless woman lying on a bed, with non-sexualised breast nudity.

  • Classified date

    04/12/2024