Indian documentary All That Breathes to be screened at Cannes Film Festival 2022

Cannes Film Festival 2022 will premiere Delhi-based filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes at its Special Screening segment announced the organisers on Thursday.

All That Breathes is a 90-minute documentary about two brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad who have devoted their lives to the rescue and treatment of the Black Kite. 

According to the news agency, the movie focuses on the brothers who work out of a basement in Wazirabad and also gives "a larger snapshot of the city, where the air is toxic and the ground is on a slowburn of social turmoil."

All That Breathes won World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival this year. This is also Sen's second documentary feature after 2015's Cities of Sleep, which was about the homeless finding a place to sleep in the vast corners of Delhi.

Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind by Ethan Coen and The Natural History of Destruction by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa will also be a part of the Special Screening line-up.

The line-up for the festival's 75th edition was unveiled yesterday and also live streamed on the Festival's Twitter page. There are 18 movies in Competition and many Palme d'Or winners like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristian Mungiu, and Ruben Ostlund returning to showcase their work, according to Deadline.

The festival will also screen Hollywood films like Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick, the Elvis Presley biopic starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks and George Miller's (of Mad Max-fame) Three Thousand Years of Solitude.

The Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 17 to May 22.