
Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
Shaunak Sen's gorgeous Delhi-set portrait of two Muslim brothers who run a makeshift raptor hospital out of their basement, treating black kites poisoned by the city's smog. Won the Best Documentary at Sundance and Cannes; critics widely embraced its rare combination of urgent ecological reporting and elegiac visual poetry.