Mon 23 May 2022 10.44 BSTthrough the eyes and hands of two brothers that nurse injured birds back to health. After winning the world cinema grand jury prize at the Sundance film festival this year it is screening at Cannes, and in many ways it is easier to say what it is not than to define what it is.
Sen has made his home town central to his work before: his 2015 first feature, Cities of Sleep, examined the nature of insomnia as told through the city’s informal shelters and the underclass that often need somewhere safe and warm to spend winter nights. This time he became inspired while being regularly stuck in Delhi’s perennial traffic, and looking up from his car. “I’d see these tiny, lazy black dots gliding around.
The brothers’ problems keep mounting: the meat grinder for the kites’ chum is on the fritz , the city is becoming engulfed in sectarian protests over a divisive citizenship law, seen as targeting Muslims like them and they must still contend with all the other travails a working family has to on a daily basis. All the while the kites keep dropping from the sky. “Delhi is a gaping wound and we’re a tiny Band-Aid on it,” says Nadeem.
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