Director Shaunak Sen at Cannes 2022
Shaunak Sen’s “All That Breaths”, which was loved at Cannes from its inception, won the 2022 L’Oil d’Or (Golden Eye) for Best Documentary at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, making it India’s first Happened twice in a row. ,
“All That Breathes” is about two brothers Nadeem and Saud from Delhi, who, amidst the deteriorating air and deteriorating social fabric of the city, dedicate their lives to saving the migratory black kites, which are unimaginable of mankind. are at the mercy of the ways. The film was screened as part of the festival’s special screening line-up.
The award was announced by a jury headed by veteran Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland.
The quote read: “2022 L’Ole d’Or goes to a film that, in a world of destruction, reminds us that every life counts, and every little action counts.
You can hold your camera, you can save a bird, you can hunt for a few moments of beauty stealing, that’s what matters.”
The quote describes All That Breathes as “an inspirational journey in observation of three Don Quijotes who cannot save the whole world but can save their own world.”
Sen’s second win for India at Cannes in two years. In 2021, Payal Kapadia’s “A Night of Knowing Nothing”, played in the parallel Semine de la Critic (Cannes Critics Week), took home L’Ole d’Or.
“All That Breathes” competes with famous Chilean documentaries Patricio Guzmán’s “MyImaginary Country”, Ethan Coen’s “Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind” and Sergei Loznitsa’s “The Natural History of Destruction”, among other films. Was.
The L’Oeil d’Or jury posthumously awarded a special prize to Mantas Kvedaravicius for his film “Marioupolis 2”. The Lithuanian director was among thousands of civilians killed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion.
The jury described “Mariopolis 2” as “a film impossible to compare with any other competition”.