ALL THAT BREATHES / CITIES OF SLEEP

ABOUT THE FILMS:

ALL THAT BREATHES, 2022, Shaunak Sen, 91 Minutes, Warner Bros., India, USA, UK

In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen explores the connection between the kites and the brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.

FORMAT: DCP

CITIES OF SLEEP, 2015, Shaunak Sen, 74 Minutes, India

CITIES OF SLEEP takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleeper’s communities as well as the infamous ‘sleep mafia’ in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for a large number of people. The film looks at not only the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in the city but is also a philosophical exploration of sleep at large.

FORMAT: DCP