About the Screening
Join us for a post-screening reception with director Shaunak Sen and moderator Robert Abele in attendance at the Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios (5300 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90038)
In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird– the black kite. 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. 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.
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Closed Captioning is available for the film and the Q&A. ASL is available for the Q&A only.