Shaunak Sen’s "All That Breathes" — awarded the Grand Jury Documentary Prize at Sundance Film Festival this week — is the kind of film that doesn’t join the dots as much as it just underlines them.
"All That Breathes" artfully ties together the social and ecological concerns which plague Delhi. Vividly capturing the sights and sounds of the city, we get a keen sense of its fragile ecosystem.
Shaunak Sen’s "All That Breathes" is one stunner of a documentary, not to mention a persuasive reminder to look up into the sky.
In a little under three minutes, Sen has encapsulated a vision of New Delhi in which modern life, particularly pollution and overpopulation, have placed new strain on the balance between humans and nature. What follows is one of the more dreamily provocative documentaries I’ve ever seen.
Shaunak Sen’s hypnotic work of urban ecology focuses on two brothers and the birds they help amid the world's smoggiest ecosystem.
Shaunak Sen’s stunning documentary, playing at the Sundance Film Festival this week, is about two brothers in Delhi who rescue kites
In New Delhi, two brothers devote their lives to rescuing black kites in Shaunak Sen’s mesmerizing documentary
The 26 jury-awarded and six audience-awarded prizes recognize achievement in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and culture shifting stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prize awarded to All That Breathes (World Cinema Documentary).
An ambitiously intricate study of the intersection of environmental collapse, religious tension, and the love of two Muslim brothers for a feathered scavenger unnervingly falling from a smoggy Delhi sky.
A visually stunning film directed by Shaunak Sen that introduces viewers to two brothers in Delhi, India, dedicated to protecting the black kite, a bird of prey threatened by the city’s pollution and other hazards.
