The darkening backdrop of Delhi’s apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
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About the Filmmakers
is a filmmaker, video artist and film scholar based in Delhi. ‘Cities of Sleep’ (2016), his first feature length documentary was shown at various major international film festivals and won six international awards. Shaunak has received the ProHelvetia residency,Switzerland (2016); the Charles Wallace Grant, as visiting scholar at Cambridge University (2018), the SaraiCSDS Digital Media fellowship (2014), and the Films Division of India fellowship (2013). He is currently working on his second documentary project 'Airborne' that recently received development funding from the IDFA Bertha Fund (2019) and the Sundance film grant (2019).