Events Woodstock Vermont Film Series: All That Breathes

All that Breathes

January 27 & 28, 2023  |  3:00PM

2022. Directed by Shaunak Sen. 97 minutes. Not rated.

Academy Award Nominee, Best Documentary Feature Film

In Hindi with subtitles

Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater. Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.

In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird — the black kite. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.