Shaunak Sen – All that breathes #Cannes2022

June 10, 2022

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Shaunak Sen, director of the documentary All that breathes.

By following the life of two brothers who devoted their life to protecting the bird known as the black kite, Shaunak Sen with the documentary All that Breathes, screening at the 75th Festival de Cannes in the Special screenings’ section, manages to explore New Delhi through the skies and more generally, to depict toxicity – in the air and among people.

All that breathes:In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird – the black kite. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.

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