For some, when talking about the awards season’s biggest films, documentaries occasionally get lost in the conversation. This award season, however, one documentary film has broken through the noise since its premiere at Sundance last year. The Academy Award-nominated “All That Breathes,” directed by Shaunak Sen, will be joining the Criterion Collection library, which prides itself on gathering and distributing the greatest films from around the globe. Sen previously made his directing debut with the acclaimed documentary “Cities of Sleep” in 2015.
The HBO Documentary Film is one of the year’s most acclaimed and awarded films and will now be available through a new partnership with Criterion. The company has acquired TVOD rights and will announce details for a future home video release at a later date. The film is also currently available on HBO and HBO Max.
“All That Breathes” follows two brothers, Nadeem and Saud, who have devoted their lives to the avian ecosystem of New Delhi and their optimistic pursuits to protect the black kite. The black kite is a majestic bird of prey essential to the New Dehli ecosystem, whose population has been falling at alarming rates. The film tells the story of the connection between human and animal coexistence, as the brothers tend to the birds helping them return to the sky despite environmental toxicity and social unrest.
The film is distributed by HBO Documentary Films in association with Submarine Deluxe and Sideshow, a Kiterabbit Films and Rise Films production in collaboration with HHMI Tangled Bank Studios.
Ahead of the Oscars next weekend, check out this Q&A highlight reel via Submarine Deluxe, featuring excerpts from conversations with Dev Patel, Judd Apatow, and Riz Ahmed, among others.