India Synopsis
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. 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.
The 2021–2023 India Window
A Night of Knowing Nothing holds position #102 of 237 India films in the 2021–2023 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2020s India Landscape
2022 was the decade’s peak output year for India — 108 titles released, including A Night of Knowing Nothing. Bars below show how the 2020s stacked up year by year (322 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 107 other India films in 2022.
The 1860th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
12 audience reviews — more than 20% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 20th percentile among India films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on A Night of Knowing Nothing, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- fascism · 4
- political activism · 3
- student protest · 3
- hindutva · 2
- indian politics · 2
- impossible love · 1
- film school · 1
- agit-prop · 1
- casteism · 1
- docufiction · 1
- resistance · 11
- young love · 7
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #766 of 1,983 India films indexed here (61st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.4 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Documentary productions specifically: #11 of 18 (top 61%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | France, India |
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Spoken Languages | English, Bengali, Hindi |
| Production Companies | Petit Chaos, Another Birth, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, IDFA Bertha Fund, Ciclic-Region Centre-Val de Loire |
| Runtime | 1h 37m |
| Release Date | April 13, 2022 |
| IMDb | tt14812784 |