Film Screening: All That Breathes

Entertainment
Sustainability

Sometimes, a movie is the best way to rekindle your connection with nature. When it’s movie that earned an Oscar nod, you know entertainment and impact are pretty much guaranteed.

Come to the Earth Hour Festival at WWF-India’s Delhi office on March 23rd for an exclusive screening of ‘All That Breathes’, followed by an interaction with the producer and the subjects of the documentary. The film received nominations at the 2023 Academy and BAFTA awards; it won awards at Cannes, Sundance, BFI London, IDA and Cinema Eye, and 24 other film festivals.

The movie trains its lens on two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — who 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, 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 mesmerising chronicle of inter-species coexistence.