All That Breathes

Two brothers in Delhi devote their lives to the black kites falling from the city's polluted sky. Shaunak Sen's film follows Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud through a basement clinic, a crowded city and a fraying sky, and finds in their work an argument about what we owe the living world.

Sen shot it over years, and the result is not a campaign film. It spends as much time on a puddle, a rat, a mosquito or a plane overhead as it does on the brothers, and it declines to tell you what to feel. What accumulates instead is an argument: that the line people draw between themselves and the rest of what breathes is arbitrary, and that some people simply refuse to draw it.