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’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. Director Shaunak Sen explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.
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Festival Appearances
Cannes Film Festival 2022 – Golden Eye for Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival 2022 – World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary
Krakow Film Festival 2022 – Silver Horn Prize for High Artistic Value
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Shaunak SenShaunak Sen is a filmmaker and film scholar based in New Delhi. Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at major film festivals, including DOK Leipzig, DMZ Docs and the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, and won six international awards. He received the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019), the Sundance Documentary Grant (2019), the Catapult Film Fund (2020), the Charles Wallace Grant, the Sarai CSDS Digital Media fellowship (2014), and the Films Division of India fellowship (2013). He was also a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018) and has published academic articles in Bioscope, Widescreen and other journals.
Sun, 6 Nov | 12:35 pm | Main Audi
