Shaunak Sen's documentary All That Breathes gets L'OEil D'Or at Cannes Film Festival
Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' won The Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
India's glory remained in the 75th Cannes Film Festival. During this, filmmaker Shaunak Sen's documentary 'All That Breathes' has been awarded the L'il D'or Award for Best Documentary. This 90-minute documentary was well-liked in Cannes. The special thing is that india has been winning the award in this category two consecutive times. L'OEil Award, also known as the Golden Eye Award.
The documentary 'All That Breaths' is based on the lives of two brothers, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shahzad, from Delhi. The brothers, who live in a village in Delhi's Wazirabad, rescue and treat injured birds, especially the black eagle. Also, it has been shown how environmental pollution affects the eagles and how they are keeping their distance from Delhi.
Both the brothers have treated more than 23,000 birds so far. Most of them were birds of prey. Apart from this, he has also built a rescue center for birds in Wazirabad. At present, both the brothers are meeting the expenses of the center from the income of the soap-dispenser business running from the basement of the house. There are about 300 birds on the roof of the house of Nadeem Shahzad and Mohammad Saud.
Shaunak Sen, an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia and jawaharlal nehru University, received a cash prize of 5,000 Euro (approximately Rs 4.16 lakh) in this award. The film also won the World cinema Documentary Grand Jury Award on january 28 this year. This 90-minute long documentary will be available on HBO and HBO Max in 2023 after its release in US cinemas.
Shaunak Sen is the second indian to win this award at Cannes. Earlier last year, Payal Kapadia's 'A Night Of Knowing Nothing' won the L'Oil d'Or Award.
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