NR | 1h 32min | Documentary, Wildlife | 7 February 2023 (India)
The only documentary ever to win at both the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, the Indian-produced “All That Breathes” (ATB) did the same thing at nine other gatherings and has been nominated for a half-dozen more industry awards, including an Oscar.
Opening with a barely audible ground-level tracking shot moving at a crawl across a moonlit patch of a Delhi slum, it becomes immediately clear “ATB” is going to be something different. This nearly three-minute scene strewn with rats, cats, dogs, pigs, frogs, various insects foraging for scraps, and the occasional fallen bird is indicative of life in 21st-century urban India. Pollution, poverty, starvation, and squalor reign supreme….