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  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • HBO Documentary Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • HBO Documentary Films
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — 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 and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spen...

Directed By: Shaunak Sen

  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • HBO Documentary Films
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2022
  • Not Rated
  • HBO Documentary Films
  • 1 h 37 m

All That Breathes

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
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Summary In one of the world’s most populated cities, two brothers — Nadeem and Saud — 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 and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spen...

Directed By: Shaunak Sen

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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100
Feb 2, 2023
All That Breathes is the kind of immersive documentary experience other filmmakers, and film lovers, would do well to study. It never feels the need to explain what it’s doing. It’s as calm and patient as the Samaritans at its core.
By Chris Vognar FULL REVIEW
100
Oct 21, 2022
All That Breathes blends a verité-style character study with gorgeous nature cinematography while never losing the film’s overall commentary on how man interacts with nature—or merely chooses to destroy it through inaction.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
94
Oct 24, 2022
The documentary uses the brothers and their relationship with the carrion birds as metaphors for the state of the environmental and political climate of India’s capital, forming a subtle subtext to the main account.
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83
Jan 29, 2022
The twin issues of climate change and Delhi’s ensuing air pollution remain largely unspoken factors in Sen’s film, which in its best moments constructs elaborate tracking shots detailing the full scale of devastation caused by extreme weather conditions.
By Alistair Ryder FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 17, 2022
Despite the poisons in the air, the brothers continue their work, mending broken creatures, one by one.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 4, 2022
Shaunak Sen’s documentary is both otherworldly and humanizing, as if it were bridging a gap between different forms of existence.
By Pat Brown FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 14, 2022
The film follows two remarkable men in New Delhi: Mohammad Saud and his older brother Nadeem Shehzad, former bodybuilders who used their scientific curiosity, compassion and knowledge of human musculature to figure out how to care for sick and injured birds.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
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Production Company HBO Documentary Films, Submarine Deluxe, Sideshow (II), Kiterabbit Films, Rise Films, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Release Date Oct 21, 2022
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://allthatbreathes.com/
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
International Documentary Association
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations

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