‘All That Breathes’ Wins L’Oeil D’or Documentary Prize At Cannes; Doc By Filmmaker Killed In Ukraine Earns Special Award

The film directed by, which documents a pair of Muslim brothers in Delhi who devote countless hours to restore the health of ailing black kite birds, earned the L’Œil d’or award in a ceremony on Saturday.

“From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the ‘kite brothers’ care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies,” notes a description of the documentary. “As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.

Joining Holland on the doc jury were Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk , French actor Pierre Deladonchamps, journalist Alex Vicente, and Moroccan filmmaker Hicham Falah. The jury awarded a special prize to, a documentary centered around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed by Russian military forces in Ukraine in April while making his film. His fiancée, Hanna Bilobrova, completed the film after his death.

“Our special prize,” the jury wrote in a citation, “goes to the film impossible to compare with any other from the competition — to the very radical, courageous, artistic and existential statementThe L’Œil d’or award was created in 2015 by LaScam, a French association of writers, directors, translators, photographers and others working in nonfiction media. It comes with a prize of 5,000 euro.

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