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All That Breathes

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Original title: All That Breathes
Year: 2022
Running time: 97 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Shaunak Sen
Music: Roger Goula Sarda
Cinematography: Ben Bernhard, Riju Das, Saumyananda Sahi
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Co-production United Kingdom-India-United States;
Genre: Documentary | Birds
Synopsis: The darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.

Awards: 2022: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2022: Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Jury Prize (Documentary)

2022: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2022: National Board of Review (NBR): Top Documentaries

2022: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2022: Producers Guild Awards (PGA): Nominated for Best Documentary

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"Quietly provocative and dreamily beautiful (...) In this tiny marvel of a documentary, it's a little and a lot all at once"

Daniel Fienberg: The Hollywood Reporter
"Sen's deceptively casual observational documentary prefers dwelling on resistance and resilience to pronouncements of doom. The meditative yet ingratiating impact is furthered by [the] score"

Dennis Harvey: Variety
"A vital and transfixing work of urban ecology about two Muslim brothers who share an uncommonly holistic perspective of the world around them"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"'All That Breathes' isn't just a gorgeously poetic display of the natural world but a reframing of why these things should matter not just to people as devoted as Nadeem and Saud but all of us (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Brian Tallerico: rogerebert.com
"Extraordinary documentary (...) Wherever you are, 'All That Breathes' is asking, can you see what's there, what needs your attention?"

Robert Abele: Los Angeles Times
"If Sen were to better connect Nadeem and Saud's faith and civic identities with the animals' desperate fight for balance in an urbanized nature, [it'd] be an excellent documentary. All the same, it's a very good one"

Ned Booth: The Playlist
"The choices in cinematography aided its storytelling ––highlighting how invisible devastation to the city's nature is for those who live there (...) One of the most powerful cinematic approaches to the climate crisis yet made"

Alistair Ryder: The Film Stage
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