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The black kite flies high
Updated On: 05 June, 2022 08:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Nimisha Patil
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, which looks at the nuances of the human and avian bond, won The Golden Eye award at Cannes 2022
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In his documentary, two brothers work out of their crammed-up basement in a village near Delhi NCR as they save kites
There is something really hypnotic about the human-animal relationship, especially human and avian, philosophically as well as emotionally. I found that incredibly interesting and I wanted to explore that,” says filmmaker Shaunak Sen, who has spent the last week under the spotlight, and rightfully so. His documentary All That Breathes has won the 2022 L’Oeil d’Or, also known as The Golden Eye award, at the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival 2022.
Amidst his chaotic schedule of prancing between panels and screenings, Sen finds a small window to speak to mid-day about his real-life film that has bagged the festival’s top prize for documentaries. The Delhi-based filmmaker’s first feature length documentary Cities of Sleep (2015) dived into the infamous “sleep mafia” of Delhi and highlighted how securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for homeless people in the capital city. This time, he captured the life of two brothers, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud, and their work of rescuing and treating birds, especially black kites, out of their basement-turned-bird hospital in Wazirabad, a village in Delhi NCR.
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