The screening for All That Breathes will be shown at TIFF Bell Lightbox 3.
India202291 minutesHindi with English subtitlesToronto PremiereDocumentary
Brothers Saud and Nadeem live in a working-class, predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in New Delhi, where they have made it their lives’ work to care for injured black kites falling from the polluted skies of the city. Having grown up with a fascination for the birds and learning early on that caring for them would keep troubles at bay, the brothers are all consumed with a mission that feels deeply as noble as it is overwhelming, with a record number of birds falling from the sky every day.
Set in an atmosphere of social conflict with protests stemming from India’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Act, director Shaunak Sen masterfully creates a layered and visually breathtaking look into the interconnectedness of a rapidly changing ecosystem. In an evolving and increasingly hostile city, especially for their community, the brothers show us how life endures in awe-inspiring ways and how both cruelty and tenderness can be found everywhere around them.
- Mariam Zaidi
AWARDS
World Cinema Honor for Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival, 2022
L’Oeil d’or “Golden Eye” Award, Cannes Film Festival, 2022
Shaunak Sen
Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker based in Delhi. Cities of Sleep, his first feature-length documentary, showed at major international film festivals and won six international documentary awards. Sen has received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019), the Catapult Film Fund (2020), and the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund (2020).
10 Nov, 2022 8:45 pm
TIFF Bell Lightbox 3The screening for All That Breathes will be shown at TIFF Bell Lightbox 3.
Rated PG
Join us for a discussion immediately after the theatrical presentation of ALL THAT BREATHES with University of Toronto Cinema Studies Professor, Rakesh Sengupta
Rakesh Sengupta
Rakesh Sengupta is Assistant Professor in English and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. He has previously taught at the University of Amsterdam and holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London. His research and teaching on South Asian cinemas focus on popular Hindi cinema as well as Bengali art cinema. Rakesh’s research has been published in BioScope, Theory, Culture & Society and Literature/Film Quarterly, among other journals and edited volumes. His public writing on South Asian cinema and culture has appeared in The Wire, Dawn and Indian Cultural Forum. His current book project, An Archaeology of Screenwriting, 1930-1960, excavates a social history of screenwriting practices in India using historical materials across formal and informal archives in several countries, as well as interview-based fieldwork in Mumbai.
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