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Indian Oscar-nominated filmmaker turns camera on his cancer

The untitled documentary centers on Sen’s surgeon and links his recovery to Delhi’s pollution, which a 2024 study tied to 3.8 million deaths in India.

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Sen's "All That Breathes", which follows two brothers running a largely self-funded clinic for birds falling victim to Delhi's polluted air, won top documentary prizes at Sundance and Cannes in 2022 and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2023 Oscars. "It became a kind of coping strategy, or a way to deal or dissociate or displace the terror of what you've just been told," Sen, 39, told AFP about his as-yet-untitled project, in an …

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The Indian director named to the Oscars for a documentary about birds victims of pollution has decided to film his disease. One way of... Read the article Shaunak Sen filmed the sick birds of New Delhi, he now tells his own cancer appeared first on The Singleer.

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