31 May 2023, 06:30 pm
All that Breathes (UK/India/USA)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building

(97 min; 2022; Hindi with English subtitles)

Director: Shaunak Sen

Multiple award winner including Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema-Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2022; Golden Eye Award, Cannes Film Festival 2022; Grierson Award (Documentary Film), London Film Festival 2022; Recipient of the Pare Lorentz Award, IDA Award for Best Feature, & IDA Award for Best Director, International Documentary Association Awards 2022; among others

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.