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| Variety January 10. 2023: ‘Severance,’ ‘Station Eleven,‘ ’The Daily Show’ Lead 2023 DGA Awards Television Nominations All That Breathes is included on BAFTA’s Longlist for Best Documentary | |
| Deadline January 6. 2023: BAFTA Film Awards 2023 Longlists: ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ & ‘Banshees’ Lead, ‘Avatar’ & ‘Empire Of Light’ Miss Out On Best Film, Best Director Nods All That Breathes is included on BAFTA’s Longlist for Best Documentary | 95th Academy Awards December 21. 2022: 95th Oscars Shortlists Announced for 10 Categories All That Breathes is in the Documentary Feature Film Shortlist. |
| Vogue December 29. 2022: All That Breathes Is One of the Most Mesmerizing Films of the Year All That Breathes is a visually stunning document of a megacity on the edge of chaos and a heartrending account of two men working tirelessly against the odds. | Deadline December 11. 2022: ‘All That Breathes,’ Stirring Film On Humans And Birds, Snares Best Feature at 38th IDA Documentary Awards All That Breathes won four IDA Awards, including: Pare Lorentz Award, Best Feature Documentary, Best Director, and Best Editing. |
| Vogue December 12. 2022: The 29 Best Movies of 2022 A mesmerizing, unforgettable documentary about so many things: wildness, urban squalor, intimacy, devotion, entropy and heartbreak, All That Breathes is a film that is hard to classify and harder still to shake. | Realscreen November 29 .2022: “All That Breathes” wins at Gothams All That Breathes continued its increasingly impressive run of awards and acclaim this year, by picking up the Gotham Film & Media Institute’s best documentary award. |
| IndieWire December 1. 2022: The 25 Best Movies of 2022 All That Breathes is determined to illustrate how two peoples’ failure to listen to each other is no different than one species’ failure to acknowledge the rest of its environment — that each aspect of Delhi is sharing the same broken conversation, whether they recognize that or not. | The New York Times October 20. 2022: Critic's Pick: ‘All That Breathes’ Review: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers “All That Breathes” is a subtle, haunting reflection on the meaning of humanity — on the breathtaking kindness and heartbreaking cruelty that define our wounded, intrepid, predatory species. |
| LA Times October 27. 2022: Review: These New Delhi brothers heal ‘All That Breathes’ in extraordinary documentary The attention to the macro and micro infuses nearly every frame of this nonfiction masterwork, which earned prizes at Sundance and Cannes this year and is maybe the most beautifully realized documentary in recent memory | BFI October 16. 2022: Competition winners announced at 66th BFI London Film Festival All That Breathes wins the Grierson Award in Documentary Competition. “This masterful work is thrilling evidence of the present and future of non-fiction filmmaking. This is pure cinema.” - Documentary Competition Jury |
| IndieWire October 18. 2022: DOC NYC Reveals Influential Awards Short List, from ‘All That Breathes’ to ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ “It’s a beautifully photographed film that pulls you into its dreamworld.” - Jaie Laplante, DOC NYC Artistic Director | The Guardian October 11. 2022: All That Breathes 4 Star Review – Delhi’s Birdmen on a Mission to Save the Black Kite Shaunak Sen’s documentary is a complex, thoughtful, quietly beautiful film about the ecosystem and human community. |
| CNN October 14. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’: Delhi’s Bird Saviors Become the Subject of a Hit Documentary The documentary is a profile of the brothers, but also the birds and the city. A series of shots throughout the film collapse the space between man and nature.a | Deadline September 20. 2022: Oscar-Contending Documentary Soars With Story Of Delhi Brothers And The Birds They Rescue This is your first look at the official trailer for All That Breathes, the surefire Oscar contender that has been called “a stone-cold masterpiece.” |
BBC September 29. 2022: 11 of the Best Films to Watch this October "At the end of the film…I cried for the incredible grace of these brothers and for the myopic cruelty of the world they live in. And for ourselves, because each one of us has contributed to making it." - Anupama Chopra at Film Companion. | The Hollywood Reporter January 28. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’: Film Review| Sundance 2022 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. What follows is one of the more dreamily provocative documentaries I’ve ever seen. |
| Variety May 19. 2022: HBO Documentary Films Buys Cannes Title and Sundance Winner ‘All That Breathes’ (EXCLUSIVE) HBO Documentary Films has bought worldwide television rights for Cannes Special Screenings title “All That Breathes.” |
News & Reviews
| The Film Stage January 5. 2023: Jordan Raup’s Top 10 Films of 2022 All That Breathes is one of the top films of 2022. | The Hollywood Reporter January 5. 2023: Feinberg Forecast: The Oscars Landscape Heading Into the Palm Springs Film Fest and Golden Globes All That Breathes is a “frontrunner” for Best Documentary nomination from the Academy of Motion Pictures, according to Hollywood Reporter. |
| Slate December 30. 2022: What We Learned From 2022’s Onscreen Beasts of Burden, from EO to Cow All That Breathes is featured as one of the Best Animal Movies of 2022. | Rolling Stone December 26. 2022: The 13 Best Documentaries of 2022 The rare film to win Best Documentary awards at both Sundance and Cannes, it’s the sort of lyrical nonfiction work that reminds you how activism can take many forms. |
| The Film Stage December 22. 2022: The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2022 Ostensibly a documentary about kites endangered by harrowing pollution in New Delhi, All That Breathes evolves before your eyes into an account of a family falling apart. | The Guardian December 21. 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin Leads Pack as London Film Critics Announce Nominations All That Breathes is nominated for Documentary of the Year. |
| Realscreen December 21. 2022: Oscar shortlists unveiled for documentary feature, short categories Fifteen out of an eligible 144 films were selected for the doc feature shortlist. Acclaimed awards-season favorites such as…Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner All That Breathes. | IndieWire December 20. 2022: The Best Cinematography of 2022 Sen turned to one of the most fascinating cinematographers working today: German DoP Ben Bernhard…the results of his collaboration with Sen in India are some of the most striking, poetic, and thought provoking images of 2022. |
| The Playlist December 19. 2022: The Best Documentaries Of 2022 A frightening and pressing plea for environmental reform, Shaunak Sen‘s tender ecological documentary All That Breathes is clear-eyed yet deeply felt. | IndieWire December 13. 2022: The Best Documentaries and Docuseries of 2022 It’s a poetic exploration of not just three men and the birds they love, but the very fabric and meaning of life itself: persevering in the face of horrible odds, if only because that’s the only thing that can possibly save us. |
| Realscreen December 12. 2022: Producers Guild of America Announces Nominees for Documentary Award All That Breathes is nominated in the Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture category. | IndieWire December 12. 2022: 2022 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances, According to 165 Critics from Around the World All That Breathes is featured as one of the best documentaries of the year. |
| Variety December 12. 2022: ‘Good Night Oppy,’ ‘Mija’ and More Docs Vie For Oscar Glory All That Breathes is featured as an awards contender. | Realscreen December 12. 2022: “All That Breathes” takes best feature, best director prizes at 2022 IDA Awards Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes was the big winner at the International Documentary Association’s 38th annual Documentary Awards on Saturday (Dec. 10),taking home the prizes for best feature documentary, best director and best editing, in addition to its previously announced honoring with the IDA’s Pare Lorentz Award. |
| Slate December 10. 2022: The 10 Best Movies of 2022 All That Breathes is an ode to survival on a climate change–ravaged planet that is tragic and hopeful in equal measure, with images so painterly it’s hard to believe they were captured from a moment of real life. | Vulture December 9. 2022: The Best Movies of 2022 All That Breathes is featured as one of the best movies this year. |
| All Arts December 8. 2022: Shaunak Sen’s Documentary ‘all That Breathes’ Focuses On Kinship “The first time I entered that basement and witnessed the damp, dank, industrialized, grubby space and these remarkably majestic birds, the sheer duality of that struck me as inherently cinematic” - Director Shaunak Sen on All That Breathes | The Wrap December 8. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Director Shaunak Sen on Breaking Nature Doc Clichés While Filming Hospitalized Birds Though focusing on the welfare of animals, Sen’s film is not a conventional nature documentary. Instead, the Delhi-based filmmaker presents this world via patient, cinematic lyricism, a wry sense of humor, and a meditative quality that rewards the viewer with an immensely rich experience. |
| The Film Stage December 8. 2022: The Best Documentaries of 2022 The only film to have collected prizes at both Sundance and Cannes, Shaunak Sen’s taut, tender documentary has a healing power that’s sourced straight from its subjects: two brothers in Delhi who have devoted their lives to saving the Black Kite… | The Hollywood Reporter December 5. 2022: Feinberg Forecast: Updated Oscar Projections as the Race Enters December All That Breathes is featured as Best Documentary Feature Frontrunner. |
| Variety December 5. 2022: 2023 DGA Awards Predictions All That Breathes is featured as a Documentary Feature Predicted Nominee. | Deadline December 4. 2022: In ‘All That Breathes’, Brothers Rescue Delhi’s Ailing Birds Of Prey In “A Bit Of A Tiny Miracle” – Contenders Documentary “Every bird that flies off that cage after falling down is a bit of a tiny miracle. And I think there’s great importance in… putting your head down and soldiering on despite what’s happening.” - Director Shaunak Sen in a forthcoming interview on All That Breathes. |
| Time December 2. 2022: The 10 Best Movies of 2022 All That Breathes is featured as an honorable mention. | Vox December 1. 2022: The 25 best movies of 2022 Delhi’s rapidly worsening air quality and religious violence form the backdrop for All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen’s lyrical portrait of two men who work to save injured and sick birds in the city…Their work stands as a metaphor for the huge task that bringing healing to the city’s human residents might be, too. After all, we all breathe the same air. |
| The Hollywood Reporter November 22.2022: Independent Spirit Awards Film Nominations All That Breathes is nominated for Best Documentary. | Tilt Magazine November 22. 2022: All That Breathes Finds New Lyrical Ties to the Natural World All That Breathes is not only the greatest documentary of the year but is its most gorgeous-looking film period. Sen’s lyrical look at two brothers—Muhammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad— in New Dehli who have dedicated their lives to rescuing injured black kites (an Indian bird of prey found in the nation’s urban expanse) alongside their assistant Salik Rehman, is bewitching, to say the least. |
| Indiewire November 21.2022: To Find ‘All That Breathes,’ Director Shaunak Sen Tossed a Year’s Worth of Footage “We realized that the main structuring principle of the film is actually that we are vacillating between extreme compression and extreme decompression…It became a metaphor for something bigger. That sort of becomes a kind of inhaling and exhaling. It’s like breathing in the sense.” - Director Shaunak Sen | ION Cinema November 15. 2022: Interview: Shaunak Sen – All That Breathes Painterly and humour-filled, All That Breathes is poetic lyricism rendered on both the micro and the macro level. |
| Hyperallergic November 13.2022: All That Breathes Redefines the “Nature Doc” All That Breathes is profoundly empathetic toward all living kind, compelling a radical reassessment of the boundaries many imagine exist between nature and civilization, along with the boundaries we insist on building between ourselves. | Indiewire November 11. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ and ‘Fire of Love’ Lead 2022 IDA Nominations All That Breathes is nominated for four IDA Awards, including: Best Feature Documentary, Best Director, Cinematography, and Editing. |
| Deadline November 10. 2022: ‘Fire Of Love,’ ‘The Territory,’ ‘All That Breathes’ Lead The Way As Cinema Eye Honors Nominations Announced All That Breathes is recognized in six categories at the Cinema Eye Honors, including: Outstanding Nonfiction Feature; Outstanding Direction; Outstanding Production; Outstanding Cinematography; Outstanding Sound Design; Audience Choice Prize. | Deadline November 10. 2022: ‘Fire Of Love,’ ‘The Territory,’ ‘All That Breathes’ Lead The Way As Cinema Eye Honors Nominations Announced All that Breathes is nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors awards, including: Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Direction, Production, Cinematography, Sound Design, Audience Choice Prize, Unforgettables. |
| Hammer to Nail November 8. 2022: HtN’s Top 13 Picks At DOC NYC 2022 Stunningly photographed, both from afar and in gorgeous close-up, All That Breathes offers a profile of three dedicated men doing what they can to preserve a small slice of nature, to the benefit of us all. | POV Magazine November 9. 2022: 50 Docs to See at DOC NYC The film poetically observes two brothers at a New Delhi bird clinic who care for carnivorous birds called Black Kites. Their mission has stirring parallels to the social divides in the film’s backdrop. |
| Awards Watch November 1. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ review: Shaunak Sen beautifully examines ecological conservation through our most vulnerable of creatures All That Breathes is certainly beautiful aesthetically, but its gentleness towards the audience makes it even more beautiful. | Variety November 1. 2022: Shaunak Sen on the ‘Blunt Power’ of Boredom in ‘All That Breathes’ and Finding Hope Through the Fog Video interview with All That Breathes director Shaunak Sen. |
| Vulture November 2. 2022: The Best Movies of 2022 (So Far) A gorgeous elegy for our crumbling world, Shaunak Sen’s documentary is about two brothers, Muhammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who run a makeshift hospital for birds of prey in Delhi. | Film Festival Today October 31. 2022: Film Review: Expect the Unexpected in “All That Breathes” Ultimately, every thread weaves together, albeit distantly sometimes, effectively conveying the idea that what affects one group will likely affect many others, if not all, in both big and small ways. |
| Deadline October 30. 2022: Oscar Contender ‘All That Breathes’: When Birds Fall From The Skies Of Delhi, Two Brothers Come To Their Aid “The film has impressed not only for its exceptional cinematography (by DOP Ben Bernhard),but for an elegant voiceover culled from stray observations the brothers made over the course of shooting the documentary.” | IndieWire October 29. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Should Contend for Both Documentary and Cinematography Oscars “…this movie is so gorgeous that some folks think it should be considered in the Cinematography category, including DOC NYC Artistic Director Jaie Laplante, who selected it for the Oscar-predictive DOC NYC Short List. “It’s a beautifully photographed film,’ he said, ‘that pulls you into its dreamworld.’” |
| Rolling Stone October 28. 2022: ‘Descendant’ and ‘All That Breathes’ Find Hope in Two Different Hells All That Breathes favors a poetic, almost dreamy style, filled with the kinds of ugly-beautiful images and thoughtfully dispatched voiceovers that can strip a narrative of outright propulsion in favor of mesmerizing us with ebbing ideas and moments of wonder. | Screen Daily October 26. 2022: 12 Documentaries To Look Out For This Awards Season Winner of both Sundance’s world cinema grand jury prize for documentary and Cannes’ Golden Eye for best documentary, this lyrical second feature from India-based filmmaker and scholar Sen centers on two Muslim brothers who rescue birds of prey affected by environmental toxicity in New Delhi. |
| Documentary Magazine October 26. 2022: 38th IDA Documentary Awards Shortlists for Best Features and Shorts All That Breathes is in the Best Feature Documentary Shortlist at the 38th IDA Documentary Awards." | Audubon Magazine October 25. 2022: A Poetic New Film Follows Two Dedicated Brothers Saving Delhi’s Black Kites All That Breathes—the first film to win best documentary at both the Sundance and Cannes festivals—is about the brothers’ refusal to ignore the suffering of the abundant but vulnerable Black Kites. |
| Deadline October 25. 2022: Cinema Eye Honors “Unforgettables” List Of Year’s Most Compelling Doc Subjects All That Breathes is nominated for two Cinema Eye Honors: the Unforgettables Award (Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad) and Audience Award. | Variety October 25. 2022: Gotham Awards Nominations: Full List All That Breathes is nominated for Best Documentary at the 2022 Gotham Awards. |
| Bird Watching Daily October 21. 2022: Award-Winning Film Shines Light on Bird Rehabbers “I am ecstatic that this film will give audiences far and wide a glimpse into the world of bird rehabbers, who are true heroes no matter where in the world they work.” - Matt Mendenhall | Documentary Magazine October 24. 2022: Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes': A Great Gray Triangulation of Air, Birds and Men “In this film, it’s a vertical axis. Because you’re thinking about the air and the relationship between the bird and the human. It all becomes more interesting because of these multiple registers.” - Director Shaunak Sen |
| Paste Magazine October 23. 2022: Enchanting Bird Rescue Doc All That Breathes Finds Lyrical New Delhi Ties The way Sen and his team approach the idea of Delhi’s disastrous atmospheric conditions is breathtaking. | Film Forward October 21. 2022: All That Breathes | New York Film Festival 2022 Shaunak Sen’s Hindi-language film finds beauty within the debris of New Delhi, in the midst of garbage strewn streets, squeaking rats, and noisy hogs, as two brothers, Nadeem and Saud, rescue injured black kites. |
| RogerEbert.com October 21. 2022: Four Stars: All That Breathes “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. | Indiewire October 20. 2022: Oscars 2023: Best Documentary Feature Predictions All That Breathes is included as a “Frontrunner” in contenders for the shortlist. |
| The Film Stage October 21. 2022: All That Breathes Director Shaunak Sen on Capturing New Delhi Bird Rescuers with a Majestic Cinematic Vision “Conveyed with a majestic vision and reverence for the natural world, Shaunak Sen’s gorgeous, immersive documentary All That Breathes is one of the essential films of the year.” - Jordan Raup | Factual America October 20. 2022: All That Breathes Matthew Sherwood interviews director Shaunak Sen about All That Breathes. |
| Next Best Picture October 21. 2022: The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “All That Breathes” Director, Shaunak Sen Interview with All That Breathes director Shaunak Sen for The Next Best Picture Podcast. | WNYC - All Of It October 18. 2022: A New Delhi Bird Hospital in 'All That Breathes' Interview with All That Breathes Director Shaunak Sen. |
| The Criterion Collection October 18. 2022: Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes It’s the only film to have won best documentary awards at both Sundance and Cannes, and this past weekend, it topped the documentary competition in London. | The Film Stage October 17.2022: All That Breathes Announced as Recipient of Inaugural Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) announced Shaunak Sen’s remarkable, essential documentary All That Breathes as the inaugural recipient of the IFSN Advocate Award. |
| Awards Daily October 17. 2022:Critics Choice Documentary Nominations Announced All That Breathes is nominated for two Critics Choice Awards: Documentary Awards for Best Science/Nature Documentary and Best Cinematography. | Next Big Picture October 16. 2022: Ranking NYFF60 A tranquil, contemplative, and universal documentary that washes over you with its visuals and message. It easily contains the best cinematography of any documentary I’ve seen this year. |
| IndieWire October 16. 2022: Oscar Contenders ‘Corsage’ and ‘All That Breathes’ Top BFI London Film Festival Winners “The winner of this year’s award is a film that through an intimate lens reveals the beauty of kinship and the struggle for survival in a time of increasing social and environmental collapse,” the Documentary Competition jury wrote about the film. “This masterful work is thrilling evidence of the present and future of non-fiction filmmaking. This is pure cinema.” | The Arts Fuse October 16. 2022: At the New York Film Festival: “All That Breathes” — Birds Saved, to Return to a Toxic Sky It is tempting to call All That Breathes a film of great humanity, but the documentary’s empathy extends far beyond humans. |
| CBR October 13. 2022: 10 Highest Rated Upcoming Movies According To Rotten Tomatoes One of the top ten highest-rated movies according to Rotten Tomatoes. | BlogCritics October 13. 2022: New York Film Festival Documentary Review: 'All That Breathes' This award-winning film uplifts, revealing the possibility that we can fight climate change on our own level. How the brothers continue to struggle to save the kites to this day embodies the worthiness of this cause, which celebrates life in all its beautiful forms. |
| Next Big Picture October 12. 2022: "All That Breathes" “All That Breathes” is a moving celebration of the brothers’ selfless sacrifice. | The Scotsman October 12. 2022: Film reviews: Emily | The Lost King | All That Breathes Beautifully shot, the film captures the indifference of the birds to their would-be saviours, perhaps as a way of magnifying the indifference of the population at large to the creatures with whom they share their city. |
| Screen Slate October 11. 2022: All That Breathes (NYFF 2022) All That Breathes (2022) is geographically small-scale, like the bird medics themselves, but artistically ambitious, spanning over three years of eloquently shot and edited footage of urban wildlife, human interference, and political undertones of one of India’s most globally prominent and troubled cities. | Bomb Magazine October 10. 2022: Community of Air: Shaunak Sen Interviewed by Arun A.K. Delhi-based filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes (2022) became the first film to win the Best Documentary prize at both Sundance and Cannes this year. |
| This Week in New York October 10. 2022: NYFF66 Main Slate: All That Breathes All That Breathes explores the fate of black kites in India as representative of so much more. | Reverse Shot October 10. 2022: All That Breathes All That Breathes is a revelation not because it presents a straightforward clash between man and nature but because it understands that man is also nature. |
| Vox October 10. 2022: Here are 29 new movies to get excited about Delhi’s rapidly worsening air quality and religious violence form the backdrop for All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen’s lyrical portrait of two men who work to save injured and sick birds in the city. | Culture Mix October 9. 2022: Review: All That Breathes With immersive cinematography, “All That Breathes” offers contemplative moments that tell more than just a documentary story about rescuing birds. |
| Times Radio Breakfast October 9. 2022: Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast Interview with All That Breathes filmmaker Shaunak Sen. | Film Inquiry October 7. 2022: New York Film Festival 2022: ALL THAT BREATHES From exquisite cinematography and craftsmanship of the lens, All That Breathes captures the noble effort to save the Black Kites, transforming from a humanitarian venture to a broad-scale look at the deepening harm of manmade environments, religious turmoil, and devastating capitalistic effect. |
| Slant Magazine October 4. 2022: All That Breathes Review: A Richly Detailed Look at Changing Urban Ecology in Delhi Shaunak Sen’s documentary is both otherworldly and humanizing, as if it were bridging a gap between different forms of existence. | Filmmaker Magazine September 30. 2022: 14 Films (and Other Recommendations) at the 60th New York Film Festival It’s a tale of high drama in which the avian stars serve as canaries in a toxic global coal mine soon to engulf us all. |
| The Film Stage September 21. 2022: All That Breathes Trailer: Sundance & Cannes Winner is One of the Best Docs of 2022 The first film to ever win both the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema) at Sundance and the Best Documentary Prize at Cannes, Shaunak Sen’s gentle, inspiring documentary All That Breathes is now arriving in a month. | First Showing September 20: Wonderful Doc About Birds in New Delhi - 'All That Breathes' Trailer It's about the few people left who care for these birds in this busy city. And it's a wonderful, gorgeous film about how important animals are + how we need to think about their rightful place on this planet, too. |
| The Hollywood Report September 16. 2022: Savannah Film Fest: ‘Docs to Watch’ Panel, New Doc Award and Special Doc Screenings Announced (Exclusive) The panel will feature the directors of 'All That Breathes,' 'Bad Axe,' 'Descendant,' 'Fire of Love,' 'Good Night Oppy,' 'Last Flight Home,' 'Moonage Daydream,' 'Navalny,' 'Retrograde' and 'The Return of Tanya Tucker.' | The Hollywood Reporter September 16. 2022: Savannah Film Fest: ‘Docs to Watch’ Panel, New Doc Award and Special Doc Screenings Announced (Exclusive) A one-of-a kind Docs to Watch gathering. |
| Filmuforia September 25. 2022: All That Breathes A melancholic, dreamlike meditation on the vital synergy that exists between all living creatures… | The Playlist September 23. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Trailer: First Film To Win Both Cannes & Sundance Documentary Awards Releases October 21 The first film to win both Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema) and Cannes’ Documentary Prize. |
| USA Today September 6. 2022: New Photos from the Biggest Movies out this Fall The documentary follows two Indian brothers who've devoted their lives to protecting the black kite, a bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi, and caring for them in a makeshift avian basement hospital. | IndieWire July 15. 2022: Oscars 2023: Best Documentary Feature Predictions “All That Breathes” is frontrunner for an Oscar nomination, according to IndieWire. |
| Mongabay-India May 27. 2022: ‘Delhi is a gaping wound…we’re a tiny Band Aid’: a film explores human and non-human relations in Delhi Director Shaunak Sen credits HHMI Tangled Bank Studios for ensuring the scientific accuracy in “All That Breathes.” | Collider May 20. 2022: Sundance Winner 'All That Breathes' Acquired by HBO Documentary Films Out of all the other films at the Sundance this year, All That Breathes is the only one screening as an Official Selection at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. |
| France 24 May 25. 2022: ‘Front-row seats to the apocalypse’: Cannes doc takes on Delhi pollution, sectarian violence India’s turbulent politics, and the immense challenges facing the world’s largest democracy, form the backdrop to the most high-profile Indian film at Cannes this year: Shaunak Sen’s hauntingly beautiful “All That Breathes,” which won the grand jury prize at Sundance earlier this year. | The Guardian May 23.2022: ‘A Gaping Wound’: How a Film About Birds of Prey is a Warning to India’s Capital City The award-winning documentary All That Breathes is a meditation on life in Delhi through the eyes and hands of two brothers that nurse injured birds back to health. |
| IndieWire May 21. 2022: Cannes 2022 Deals: ‘One Fine Morning,’ ‘Corsage’ Are the Latest Festival Acquisitions Shaunak Sen’s documentary follows two brothers who run a bird hospital in New Delhi, specializing in the city’s signature black kite. The film offers a poetic look at a city plagued by rising environmental issues and civil unrest. | Realscreen May 20. 2022: HBO Documentary Films acquires Sundance award winner “All That Breathes” All That Breathes, the grand jury prize winner in the world cinema documentary competition at the 2022 edition of Sundance, has been acquired by HBO Documentary Films. |
| The Wrap May 20. 2022: Hit Sundance Doc ‘All That Breathes’ to Get Theatrical Rollout This Fall Followed by HBO Max Debut HBO Documentary Films has acquired worldwide television rights to the documentary feature “All That Breathes,” the company announced Friday. | The Week April 15. 2022: Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' Part of Cannes Festival's Special Screening Delhi-based filmmaker Shaunak Sen's documentary All That Breathes will premiere in the Special Screening segment at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, the organizers announced Thursday. |
| Festival de Cannes April 14. 2022: The Films of the Official Selection 2022 Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux announced the Official Selection for the 75th edition of the Festival de Cannes at the UGC Normandie in Paris. | The New York Times February 1.2022: Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree On There is no denying the movie’s power or its subject; there’s also no denying the heartbreak of its images. |
| Harper’s Bazaar February 1.2022: The 15 Must-See Films from This Year’s Sundance Film Festival Sen unearths something poetic in the brothers’ devotion as they tend to a broken leg or gently shampoo a distressed raptor, celebrating slivers of against-the-odds hope in generous sums. | IndieWire January 31. 2022: Memo to Distributors: Buy These Sundance 2022 Films “All That Breathes” is the kind of poetic environmental ode that opens itself up to much more than its base, and would benefit from a theatrical distributor able to let its birds soar on the scale that the big screen provides. |
| Awards Radar January 30. 2022: Sundance Film Festival Review: Shaunak Sen Stimulates Conservationist Empathy with ‘All That Breathes’ All That Breathes artfully ties together the social and ecological concerns which plague Delhi. Vividly capturing the sights and sounds of the city, we get a keen sense of its fragile ecosystem. | Los Angeles Times January 30.2022: From ‘Nanny’ to ‘The Exiles,’ a virtual Sundance puts a human face on past and present horrors The grand jury prize for international documentaries went to “All That Breathes,” Shaunak Sen’s beautifully observed film about two Indian brothers who set up an in-home hospital for black kites, birds that have become increasingly endangered by pollution in Delhi. |
| Buzzfeed News January 29. 2022: 12 New Indie Movies to Look Forward To Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is one stunner of a documentary, not to mention a persuasive reminder to look up into the sky. | Variety January 28. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Review: Sundance-Winning Doc Surveys Interspecies Life, Both Ailing and Flying, in Polluted Delhi Shaunak Sen’s impressionistic film glimpses a complex bigger picture behind two Indian Muslim brothers dedicated to bird rescue. |
| IndieWire January 28.2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Review: A Transfixing Doc About Brothers Devoted To Saving Delhi’s Birds There is so much life in “All That Breathes” that you won’t be left clamoring for more personality. | News Nine January 24.2022: Sundance 2022: Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes is a beguiling chronicle of Delhi pollution In a story enclosing the perils of varying kinds of pollution threatening lives, [Shaunak Sen’s] bird's eye view serves a more subliminal purpose: it showcases the need of collectivism, the merit in coexistence of all that breathes. |
| Eye for Film January 24. 2022: Flight and fight Shaunak Sen's documentary All That Breathes takes flight from a small building in Delhi, where brothers Nadeem and Saud treat the injured black kites, to consider the way that humans and animals co-exist and the impact one has upon the other. | The Utah Review January 24.2022: Sundance 2022: All That Breathes exceptional documentary testament to human-nonhuman interaction in the midst of Delhi Of numerous remarkable moments in the exceptional documentary film All That Breathes, India’s sole entry in this year’s Sundance, among the most unforgettable are those portraying the psychological and philosophical attitudes of brothers Nadeem and Saud, who have put their heads down in total focus for nearly the last 20 years mending and rehabilitating thousands of black kite raptors that have fallen out of Delhi’s smog-choked skies. |
| The Art Newspaper January 24. 2022: At Sundance, new films tackle painful legacies through archaeology, urban design and more A visually stunning and poignant documentary at this year’s festival that might escape attention is All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen. | Salt Lake City Weekly January 23. 2022: Sundance 2022 Day 3 capsules It’s far too rare that documentaries seem concerned with being visually remarkable, so it’s wonderful to see such care applied to a subject—the experience of living in a place that feels like it’s disintegrating around you—that easily could have been presented with a grim matter-of-factness. |
| High On Films January 23.2022: Sundance 2022: “Dual,” “All That Breathes,” & “Resurrection” Watch All That Breathes as many times as you can and act on its message about unity and coexistence. | Salt Lake City Weekly January 23. 2022: Sundance 2022 Day 3 capsules It’s far too rare that documentaries seem concerned with being visually remarkable, so it’s wonderful to see such care applied to a subject—the experience of living in a place that feels like it’s disintegrating around you—that easily could have been presented with a grim matter-of-factness. |
| Eye For Film January 23. 2022: All That Breathes By filming the animals that live almost shoulder to shoulder with humans in the city, from the smallest mosquito on up - all shot beautifully by Ben Berhard and his team - [Shaunak Sen] draws attention to how each creature's world is interlinked with the others. | Tilt January 22.2022: All That Breathes Shows an Ecosystem in Turmoil All That Breathes is an insightful watch because it recognizes that small steps are still progress and can eventually lead to breakthroughs that can have a larger impact than ever dreamed. |
| RogerEbert.com January 22. 2022: Sundance 2022: Nothing Compares, All That Breathes, Tantura “All that Breathes” is an unbreakable ethos. Saud and Nadeem were raised by their mother to respect all living creatures…Poetic flourishes, as elegant as a bird’s flight, pervades Sen’s study; an acute depth of field centers the creatures—rats, birds, hogs, mosquitos, and so forth—teeming, unnoticed by humans, in the city. | High on Films January 22.2022: All That Breathes [2022]: ‘Sundance’ Review—Mapping Delhi’s Streets & Skies Into A Stirring, Stunning Miniature Sen writes how he wished to harness the enchantment of the sky through this film. I think this film succeeds many steps more; these brothers, “unique philosophers of the urban” are boldly, quietly guiding all of us with immeasurable grace and fortitude, showing a way out of the morass of our times. |
| Backseat Mafia January 22.2022: Sundance Review: All That Breathes Shaunak Sen’s film focuses on [the brothers] (often) fractious relationship, using it as a base to investigate wider themes. It’s beautifully shot and feels almost magical at times… | Film Companion January 22.2022: Sundance 2022: Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece All That Breathes dissolves the line between foreground and backdrop, atmosphere and climate, nature and human nature, and most of all, compassion and survival. The result is a beguiling snapshot of a country on the brink of both cultural and environmental apocalypse. |
| Geek Vibes Nation January 22. 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Sundance 2022 Review— The Natural and Unnatural Worlds Collide All That Breathes is a double-tracked love story. The documentary centers both the tender passion behind Shehzad and Saud’s mission and the beautiful volatility between New Delhi’s natural and unnatural inhabitants. Sen weaves the two threads by capturing them with a narrative eye. He forgoes traditionally remote objectivity for shots and sequences that are strikingly stylized and intimate. | POV Magazine January 22. 2022: All That Breathes Review: A Wing and a Prayer When the cameras of All That Breathes gaze longingly upwards, the film harnesses the impulse that drives the brothers to work. The sight of flying birds is a wonder to behold. |
| Backseat Mafia January 22.2022: Sundance Review: All That Breathes Shaunak Sen’s film focuses on [the brothers] (often) fractious relationship, using it as a base to investigate wider themes. It’s beautifully shot and feels almost magical at times… | CBS News January 21. 2022: Sundance Film Festival 2022: Opening highlights Shaunak Sen's meditative film focuses on the unique bond that the men share with their patients… |
| Filmmaker January 21.2022: “We Were Always Searching for the Beauty of Coexistence, Even in the Most Polluted of Places”: DP Ben Bernhard on All That Breathes Ben Bernhard, ‘All That Breathes’ cinematographer, reveals the challenges of tethering images of the natural world to urban living and how he composed shots that place nature and mankind on a level playing field. | But Why Tho? January 21. 2022: SUNDANCE 2022: ‘All That Breathes’ Is a High Soaring Masterpiece All That Breathes is a masterful tale of how pollution has invaded the air and the human soul. Through outstanding directing, Shaunak Sen pits some of the best traits humanity has to offer against the worst. And at the end, we get a display of hope overcoming hate. |
| Deadline January 20.2022: Sundance 2022 Preview: Hot Docs Seeking Distribution Deals Aim for A Repeat of ‘Flee’ A visually stunning film directed by Shaunak Sen that introduces viewers to two brothers in Delhi, India, dedicated to protecting the black kite, a bird of prey threatened by the city’s pollution and other hazards. | The Hindu January 14. 2022: Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’ and a front row seat to the apocalypse ‘All That Breathes,’ Shaunak Sen’s Sundance-premiering documentary, is an urgent commentary on the social fabric of Delhi and its apocalyptic skies. |
| Green Reporter January 13.2022: Sundance 2022 Lineup: New Films From Ten documentaries by some of the boldest filmmakers working around the world today. | Vulture January 12.2022: Evan Rachel Wood Documentary Joins Sundance Film Festival 2022 Lineup Against 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. |
| Outlook December 27. 2021: All That Breathes| Delhi’s Black Kites, Two Brothers And A Film 'All That Breathes', a documentary by Shaunak Sen on the story of two Delhi brothers fighting to save the city’s black kites, is poised for a world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2022. |