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All That Breathes – In Conversation with Shaunak Sen (2023)

Duration: 00:58:55    Category: Uncategorised   

Watch the recording of the In Conversation event between filmmaker Shaunak Sen, the director of All That Breathes with SDI founder Noe Mendelle.

All That Breathes | India, US, UK | 2022 | 84 min

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen (Cities of Sleep) explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.

SHAUNAK SEN | Director

Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker and film scholar based in New Delhi, India. Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals (including DOK Leipzig, DMZ Docs and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, among others) and won 6 international awards. Shaunak received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019), the Catapult Film Fund (2020),  the Charles Wallace Grant, the Sarai CSDS Digital Media fellowship (2014), and the Films Division of India fellowship (2013). He was also a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018) and has published academic articles in Bioscope, Widescreen and other journals.

Further reading: 

  • New York Times: Meet the Bird Medics of New Delhi
  • All That Breathes: shooting a Sundance-supported documentary with Canon kit

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