Saud is more content to remain local, but he’s weighed down by the city’s out-of-whack ecosystem, with more hurt birds than they can handle. Nadeem knows the impact they’re making on a micro level, but he yearns to see the world and to study abroad, taking what he’s learned global. Nadeem and Saud’s pursuit is a noble one, inspired by their late mother, but as a character study, All That Breathes shows the toll that this all-consuming avocation has taken on them. Nadeem and Saud, when they aren’t lobbying for donations and grants, tend to the kites, primarily in a cramped, dingy basement and a rudimentary rooftop enclosure. The air quality and air visibility in New Delhi are so foul that fowl literally smack into each other in the air. Since 2003, the brothers have been collecting injured kites, birds of prey who seemingly float effortlessly over the city, occasionally coming down to landfills to consume waste. They make money doing something involving soap dispensers, but their passion is their budding organization called Wildlife Rescue. Nadeem and Saud live in a working-class, predominantly Muslim neighborhood of New Delhi. Or it might just be 91 minutes with a couple of brothers who really like birds. It could be a humanist meditation on how we treat each other, how we tear people down by comparing them to animals, but how really we should treat everything and everyone just a bit better. It could be a spiritual piece about the webs of synergistic connectivity between, well, everything that breathes. What follows is one of the more dreamily provocative documentaries I’ve ever seen.ĭepending on your level of investment, All That Breathes could be a documentary about climate change and the crucial need to understand how animals are adapting and how humans need to adapt. In a little under three minutes, Sen has encapsulated a vision of New Delhi in which modern life, particularly pollution and overpopulation, have placed new strain on the balance between humans and nature. Venue: Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Documentary Competition)
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