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All That Breathes (2022)

All That Breathes poster
Directed by
Shaunak Sen
Genre
documentary film
Country
India
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
12
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 84 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two brothers run a makeshift bird hospital in Delhi, rescuing and treating injured black kites that fall from the city's polluted sky. The film follows their daily work and quiet devotion amid the challenges of urban life.

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What happens

All That Breathes is a 2022 documentary film directed by Shaunak Sen. It is produced by Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer under the banner of Rise Films. The film follows siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who rescue and treat injured birds in India. The film had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2022, where it won Grand Jury Prize in World Cinema Documentary Competition. It also had a screening at Cannes Film Festival in the special screening section, where it won the Golden Eye. It was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. The film then went on to win a Peabody Award at the 84th ceremony for "its graceful portrait of empathy and interconnectivity between nature and man." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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