Filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s critically acclaimed documentary 'All That Breathes' which premiered in the Special Screening segment at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year has now won yet another prestigious award. Shaunak’s docu film bagged was named the best documentary and won the prestigious Grierson Award at this year’s London Film Festival.
The Delhi-based young filmmaker’s documentary had earlier won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It follows the lives of siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad who, working out of their derelict basement in Wazirabad, a village in Delhi, rescue and treat injured birds, especially the Black Kites.
The 90-minute long film is Sen’s second directorial after the acclaimed 2016 'Cities of Sleep', which was about the homeless scouting for places to sleep in the capital.
‘All That Breathes’ is a collaboration between an Indian director, a German DOP (Director of photography), and a Danish film editor. Shaunak’s visual narrative in the documentary has been inspired by Russian director Viktor Kossakobsky’s work as he wanted to bring that narrative to show Delhi’s apocalyptic background. Critics have praised the ‘fantastic macro cinematography’ of the documentary on which three DOPs – Ben Bernhard, Riju Das, and Saumyananda Sahi – worked.
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