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All That Breathes review: Rescuing raptors in Delhi

In this award-winning and compelling documentary, rescuing the injured black kites and water birds of Delhi is a family effort, finds Simon Ings

By Simon Ings

28 September 2022

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Salik Rehman and one of the injured birds he works to save

Kiterabbit Films

All That Breathes

Shaunak Sen

In UK cinemas from 14 October

“HUNDREDS of birds are falling out of the sky every day,” says Nadeem Shehzad, by far the grumpier of two brothers whose life’s work is to rescue the injured raptors and water birds of Delhi. “What amazes me is that people go on as if everything’s normal.”

In Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, which won a Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, people aren’t the only ones making the best of…

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