ALL THAT BREATHES

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CLOSING NIGHT FILM

ALL THAT BREATHES

TUES, 12/6, 8:00pm, 97 min BAY STREET THEATER

Zoom Q/A with Director Shanuak Sen & Andrew Botsford

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All That Breathes" blends a verité-style character study with gorgeous nature cinematography while never losing the film’s overall commentary on how man interacts with nature—or merely chooses to destroy it through inaction.

Director: Shaunak Sen
Producers: Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, Teddy Leifer
Editor: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen
Cinematographers: Benjamin Bernhard, Riju Das, Saumyananda Sahi

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, a staple in the skies of New Delhi. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the "kite brothers" care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from 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. Human and animal life is not divided in a city like New Delhi—it is all part of the same tableau, and Sen’s film captures it with a blend of striking beauty and empathetic fragility.

Shaunak Sen is an Indian filmmaker, video artist and film scholar from Delhi. All That Breathes won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.