Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, May 29: Documentary ‘All That Breathes,’ directed by Shaunak Sen, has received the L’Oeil d’Or, the festival’s top prize for documentaries at Cannes.
“Congratulations to Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen for the conferment of ‘L’Oeil d’or’ award for his documentary “All That Breathes” at Cannes Film Festival. I am sure, this will inspire other Indian documentary makers to make it big at the world stage,” Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur wrote on twitter.
The jury, which included Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, Ukrainian writer-director Iryna Tsilyk, French actor Pierre Deladonchamps, journalist Alex Vicente, and Moroccan writer-filmmaker Hicham Falah, chose the 90-minute film as the winner.
Shaunak’s film follows Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, two brothers who work out of a run-down basement in Delhi’s Wazirabad to rescue and treat injured birds, particularly black kites.
