Director Shaunak Sen’s acclaimed documentary All That Breathes captures the lives of brothers Mohammed Saud and Nadeem Shahzad, expert rehabilitators who run a clinic dedicated to rehabilitating Delhi’s ubiquitous Black Kites and other raptors.
In Delhi, India, competitive kite flying is a huge hit among the city’s 10 million inhabitants. It involves using manja, a thread coated in ground-up glass or metal to make it razor-sharp. The popular pastime can have fatal consequences for Black Kites, who can become tangled up in or cut by the string. Sharp threads have fatally injured humans, too.
Read on for an interview with Sen about the film and its subjects’ extraordinary devotion to their avian neighbors. |
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