At the 95th Academy Awards, Shaunak Sen’s documentary Everything That Breathes Navalny was passed over for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. After watching both movies, filmmaker Hansal Mehta has now voiced his opinion on Twitter, claiming that All That Breathes is “far more cinematic” than Navalny’s. Navalny was described as “very unremarkable as a movie” by director Daniel Rohr.
Hansal Mehta reacts to the film Navalny which beat All That Breathes at the Oscars this year.
In response to Navalny All That Breathes’ Oscar loss, filmmaker Hansal Mehta tweeted: “So I felt the #Navalni documentary too vital as a political subject and too normal as a film.” located it. Do it now. Crucify me for my viewpoint. But #AllThatBreeds is in a league of its own. Far more profound, political, and unquestionably cinematic.
Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition, and the circumstances surrounding his assassination are the focus of the documentary Navalny. Musician Questlove and actor Riz Ahmed gave the prize presentation.
Mohammed Saud and Nadeem Shahzad, two brothers from Wazirabad, Delhi, strive to rescue and treat injured birds, particularly black kites, from their improvised basement in the film All That Breathes. The movie was described as “visually spectacular” in the Hindustan Times review, which also stated that it was “breathtakingly shot” by a team of cinematographers that included Benjamin Bernhard, Riju Das, and Soumyanand Sahi. does—Sen has produced a masterpiece.
The highly regarded movie had previously taken home the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Shaunak shared some photographs from the evening on Instagram after the film didn’t win and stated that the team was feeling “sad” in the post. “So many messages of support/encouragement from yesterday,” he wrote. We were down for almost an hour, but we soon became preoccupied in the calm amidst a flurry of illuminating individuals and objects. The realization that this chapter is coming to a close is something the brain is still processing.
