December 2022 is the time to indulge in a week of documentary films on the big screen at the 15th annual Hamptons Doc Fest. Look for us Dec 1 to 6 at the Sag Harbor Cinema, a state-of-the-art movie theater and at the Bay Street Theater, both in the heart of this historic village. Enjoy the special festival highlight films and be sure to get your ticket for our big Gala evening, December 3rd at Bay Street that begins with tasty wine and hors d’oeuvres as a prelude to our prestigious Pennebaker Career Achievement Award honoring documentarian Sam Pollard.  And if you are wise, you’ll buy a full Festival Pass to see everything over 6 days.

Schedule:

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Location: Bay Street Theater

2:00pm: Subject, 93 min

Q/A with Jesse Friedman and Roger Sherman

Subject picks up where most documentaries end. The film has come out, perhaps won a prize or two, but then it’s over. The director gets the acclaim and the audience’s interest in the subject of the film ends. But now, two directors have given voice to those made famous for an Andy Warhol instant. The experiences of people and families turned upside down in films like The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack or Capturing the Friedmans are now center stage. Through fascinating and revealing interviews with the film’s protagonists, Subject examines the impact being in those films had on the players’ lives, as well as the ethics documentarians face when they make a nonfiction film.

Jennifer Tiexiera is an award-winning documentary director, producer and editor and one of the co-founders of Lady and Bird, a female-run documentary production company focused on telling stories from underrepresented voices. Camilla Hall specializes in vérité documentary filmmaking and comes from a seven-year career in print journalism at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News.

5:00pm: 2022 ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD - Fashion Reimagined, 94 min

Zoom Q/A with Director Becky Hutner and Roger Sherman

Fashion is among the most polluting industries in the world. The accelerated turnaround of trends known as “fast fashion” is only escalating the impact with global clothing production doubling between 2000-2014 and the average American now discarding 70 pounds of clothing per year, 85% of which ends up in landfills. Fashion designer Amy Powney is on a quest to change that. After she won the coveted Vogue award for Best Young Designer, this fiercely determined young woman decided to use her large cash award to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment and, in the process, transformed her entire business.

Becky Hutner is a Toronto-born filmmaker living in coastal England. Her filmmaking journey includes five years in London creating short-form work in the fashion and culture space for DUCK Productions. Notable DUCK projects include Painting Her Story, a series about the gender gap in art for the National Gallery. Fashion Reimagined is Becky’s first feature.

Location: Sag Harbor Cinema

07:30pm: Opening Night Film - Still Working 9 to 5, 96 min

Q/A with Directors Camille Hardman, Gary Lane; Larry Lane and author Ellen Cassedy in conversation with Susan Lacy

Wine and Cheese Reception to follow

Origin Of The Original Film

The documentary opens with the deconstruction of the original “9 to 5” film and why it shone a light on gender inequality and discrimination in the workplace in the late 1970s. We discover how the concept for the film rose out of the women’s movement and Jane Fonda’s close friendship with fellow activist Karen Nussbaum and how, in 1973, Karen, along with her friend Ellen Cassedy, established the 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women, after experiencing many workplace indignities.

When the highest-grossing comedy, 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman and Lily Tomlin, exploded on the cinema screens in 1980, the laughs hid a serious message about inequality in the workplace. Now, 40 years later, Still Working 9 to 5 takes a fresh look at the iconic classic and, guess what, little has changed for women over the decades. Injustice is still rampant and barriers still block many women’s way.

Camille Hardman has been producing documentaries and reality TV series in both her native Australia and Los Angeles. Five years ago Camille created the popular DIY Network/ HGTV series Restored which has spread the importance of restoration around the globe.

Gary and Larry Lane’s debut documentary Hollywood to Dollywood screened in 70 film festivals around the world and won 25 best documentary awards in total. It featured 15 original Dolly Parton songs.

The Opening Night film is sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton Hospital

Friday, December 2, 2022

Location: Bay Street Theater

2:00pm: The Thief Collector, 94 min

Q/A with Director Allison Otto, Producer Caryn Capotosto in conversation with Roger Sherman

It was an audacious and puzzling art theft. In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, vanished into the Arizona desert after being cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the $160 million painting was rediscovered in the unlikeliest of places.

The Thief Collector is Allison Otto’s first feature documentary. Her short, The Love Bugs, was awarded Best Short Documentary in the 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Her first film, Keeper of the Mountains was named “One of the Best Adventure Films of 2013” by Outside magazine.

Location: Sag Harbor Cinema

5:00pm: Patrick and the Whale, 72 min

Zoom Q/A with Director Mark Fletcher, Cinematographer Patrick Dykster and Roger Sherman

For twenty years, Patrick Dykstra has dedicated his life to traveling the globe, following and diving with whales. Over the years, he has learned how whales see and hear, how they perceive other creatures in the water and how they behave at close quarters. In Dominica in 2019, Patrick had a close encounter with a female sperm whale. Patrick felt an overwhelming sense that she was genuinely trying to communicate. Employing stunning cinematography, and with a keen ear tuned to the whale’s song of clicks and whistles, the film follows Patrick as he takes us under the seas again to search for the special whale he named "Dolores," so she can help him show us the hidden world of her species.

Mark Fletcher is an England-based producer, editor, and director specializing in wildlife films. Patrick and the Whale (2022) is his most recent film. When introducing the documentary’s World Premiere screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Director Mark Fletcher jokingly admitted that “the whales started to direct the movie.” The packed theater let out a hearty laugh, but he was only half-kidding.

07:00pm: National Geographic Documentary Films Tribute - The Territory, 85 min Plus Presentation and Award

Award to National Geographic Documentary Films, accepted by Chris Albert, EVP Global Communications, followed by a screening of The Territory.

Q/A with Director Alex Pritz in conversation with Roger Sherman

National Geographic Documentary Films is committed to producing provocative and globally relevant stories from the best documentary filmmakers. Hamptons Doc Fest has shown many of their ground-breaking films in the past including Free Solo, Playing with Sharks, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, Science Fair and Torn. We are thrilled to add to this prestigious list two new films: The Flagmakers and The Territory.

The Territory provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon. With inspiring cinematography and richly textured sound design, the film takes audiences deep into the Uru-eu-wau-wau community and provides unprecedented access to the farmers and settlers illegally burning and clearing the protected Indigenous land. Partially shot by the Uru-eu-wau-wau people, the film relies on vérité footage captured over three years as the community risks their lives to expose the truth.

Alex Pritz’s directorial debut, The Territory, premiered at Sundance 2022, winning both the Audience Award and Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Location: Bay Street Theater

11:30am: Special 40th Anniversary Screening - Say Amen, Somebody, 100 min
Plus Gospel performance by Jeff Roberson and Nulife Singers
GALA: HONORING SAM POLLARD

Opening with a performance of contemporary Gospel Music by Jeff Roberson and the Nulife Singers

Q/A with Director George Nierenberg, Cinematographer Don Lenzer in conversation with Andrew Botsford

Say Amen, Somebody is a joyful tribute to black men and women who first began combining the heart and soul of Negro spirituals with the infectious rhythms of jazz and blues. The film follows two main figures: Thomas A. Dorsey, considered the Father of Gospel Music, 83 at the time of filming, and Willie Mae Ford Smith, 77 and an associate of Dorsey’s and the film’s primary subject. Dorsey recalls how he came to write Take My Hand, Precious Lord and the difficulties he faced introducing gospel blues to black churches in the early 1930s. Smith trained several very influential 20th century gospel singers even though she remained relatively unknown herself outside of gospel.

As a 28-year-old Jewish filmmaker, George Nierenberg had no experience with gospel music before taking on this project. He had recently finished No Maps on My Taps, a 1979 documentary following three New York City-based tap dancers. Seeking ideas for a new project, he asked blues guitarist and friend Ry Cooder for suggestions. Cooder told him, “You oughta look into gospel music; those cats are really neat.” The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1982 and in 2019 Nierenberg supervised the restoration of the inspirational film which has played at festivals around the globe.

Elder Jeff Roberson was born and raised in Long Island, New York, the son of Pentecostal parents who had a compelling love for music. Not only is he a skilfull world-class vocalist, his talents transcend various creative art forms such as musician, innovative producer, accomplished pianist and organist. His many recorded albums with the Nulife singers are well-known treasures.

7:00pm: Cocktail Buffet Reception

8:00pm: Pennebaker Career Achievement Award To Sam Pollard

Sam Pollard is a veteran feature film and television editor, and documentary producer/director. With a career spanning 50 years, describing the essence and impact of his thoughtful, stellar body of work—be it as editor, director, or producer—is a true challenge. The New York Times called him “a multi-hyphenate artist who has quietly built a monumental career” exploring the contours and nuances of social hierarchies and human behavior. A dedicated, inquisitive chronicler of the Black Experience in America, his work has garnered multiple Peabody and Emmy Awards, and an Academy Award nomination. He has been honored with a 2021 New York Film Festival Tribute and a 2021 Career Achievement Award from the International Documentary Association.

7:00pm: Cocktail and Buffet Reception
8:00pm: Pennebaker Tribute Award; Julie Anderson interview with Sam Pollard on his monumental career as chronicler of the black experience in America.
9:00pm: Film screening: Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power

Followed by a screening of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, 90 min

In 1960, 80% of voters in Lowndes County, Alabama were black, but none of the black voters were registered to vote. What was behind this injustice? Lowndes County chronicles the courageous men and women, famous and unknown, who put their lives on the line to secure the right to vote for everyone. The story is told by both the black and white people who were there at the time, including grassroots organizers and citizens content with the status quo, who share their personal anecdotes of that tumultuous time, lending an uncommon intimacy and authenticity to this historical documentary. Sam Pollard is a veteran American film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter whose ground-breaking work is focused on the African American experience. Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning director, producer and editor with over 25 years in the industry. She has won two Emmy Awards. As editor, she has won an Academy Award and three Peabody Awards.

Location: Sag Harbor Cinema

11:00am: The Quiet Epidemic, 102 min

Q/A with Directors Lindsay Key, Winslow Crane-Murdoch; Producer Chris Hegedus in conversation with Roger Sherman

After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not exist: Chronic Lyme disease. The Quiet Epidemic follows their search for answers, which lands them in the middle of a vicious medical debate. What begins as a patient story evolves into an investigation into the history of Lyme disease. A paper trail of suppressed scientific research and buried documents reveals why ticks—and the diseases they carry—have been allowed to quietly spread around the globe.

In 2015, each of the co-directors was forced to move home with their families in upstate New York—too ill to sustain their careers and navigate city life. Upon learning they were both filmmakers with Lyme, a nurse practitioner decided to connect them. Thrust into the middle of this controversial medical mystery, they decided to use their cameras to understand the disease that had upended their lives. The Quiet Epidemic is the first feature film for both directors.

1:30pm: 2022 FILMMAKER IMPACT AWARD honoring Ondi Timoner - Last Flight Home, 101 min

Q/A with Director Ondi Timoner and Rogr Sherman

Behind a white picket fence, on an unremarkable suburban street, we discover Eli Timoner, who founded Air Florida, the fastest growing airline in the world in the 1970's. During his final days, we discover his extraordinary life filled with incredible success and devastating setbacks, and most importantly, an innate goodness which won him the enduring love and support of his family. Through stunning vérité footage recorded by Ondi, his middle child, Last Flight Home takes audiences on a heart-wrenching ride through Timoner’s life, illustrating a modern day success story built on the power of human connection.

Ondi Timoner has won numerous festival awards for her films, and has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice, for Dig! about the collision of art and commerce and We Live in Public about the loss of privacy online. In November, 2022, she was honored with the Robert and Anne Drew Award for Documentary Excellence at Doc NYC.

4:00pm: Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, 101 min

Co-Presented with NYWIFT, New York Women in Film and Television

Q/A with Director Nancy Buirski and Producer Susan Margolin in conversation with Roger Sherman

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about New York in a troubled era of cultural upheaval. The 1969 movie tells the story of two homeless loners brilliantly played by Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, who join forces out of desperation and struggle to survive. Midnight Cowboy is set in a New York besieged by economic collapse in the midst of black, gay and women’s liberation movements. This documentary looks at why this unique movie resonates so powerfully more than fifty years later. Midnight Cowboy is the first X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In 1998 Nancy Buirski founded the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and directed it for 10 years before embarking on her own filmmaking career. Buirski often tackles difficult subjects and has directed and produced six feature length documentaries in just over 10 years, all of which have been critically acclaimed. Her first documentary, The Loving Story in 2011, told the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple that married in Virginia, not knowing that interracial marriage was illegal in the state. The film won an Emmy and Peabody and was nominated for an Oscar. In 2017 she made The Rape of Recy Taylor. The film was awarded the Human Rights Nights prize at the 74th Venice International Film Festival.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Location: Bay Street Theater

11:00am: The Grab, 104 min

Zoom Q/A with Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite and Ron Simon

At first it seemed like an isolated incident—the 2013 sale of Smithfield Foods, which controls a quarter of the U.S. pork supply, to a Chinese company. But further investigative reporting dug up similar resource grabs by other nations. The Smithfield revelation led Nathan Halverson of The Center for Investigative Reporting and his colleagues to follow a trail of money and resources and to probe into the covert actions of the world’s most powerful countries as they gobble up precious land and vital resources in other nations.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s films often deal with social, cultural and environmental issues relating to real-life events. She became seasoned at cultivating whistleblowers and uncovering secrets in her 2013 documentary Blackfish, which brought major changes to SeaWorld and is one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time. Blackfish was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Documentary. At the film’s festival debut at Toronto in September, she told the audience that she had many opportunities to tell stories after the success of Blackfish - but this is the one she had to tell.

Location: Sag Harbor Cinema

2:00pm: The Smell of Money, 84 min

Q/A with Director Shawn Bannon, Producer Jamie Berger in conversation with Susan Margolin

A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery, Elsie Herring brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism literally in her backyard. When a corporate hog farm moves in—uninvited—on her grandfather’s land, Elsie decides to fight back. But as her rural community becomes the epicenter of the pork industry’s explosion in America, Elsie’s struggle to save her family’s home and heritage turns into a battle against Smithfield Foods, one of the world’s most powerful companies, and its deadly pollution.

“The smell of money”—that’s what Big Pork calls the stench of pig waste in the air in eastern North Carolina, where much of the world’s bacon and barbecue is made, one of the only states where it is legal to spray untreated hog waste into the air. But to Elsie and others who live near the state’s giant pig factories, the revolting odor is a call to battle against generations of injustice.

Shawn Bannon’s short films are The Green Knight Documentary and Bloody Barbara. The Smell of Money is his first feature documentary; it premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival in April of 2022 where it won the Documentary Feature Jury Prize.

4:00pm: Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, 112 min

Co-Presented with the Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center

Q/A with Director Lizzie Gottlieb; Robert Caro in conversation with Giulia D’Angolo Vallan

Turn Every Page explores the remarkable 50-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. With humor and insight, this unique double portrait reveals the work habits, peculiarities and professional joys of these two ferocious intellects at the culmination of a journey that has consumed both their lives and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers, and readers.

Elizabeth Alice Gottlieb, known as "Lizzie", was born to the editor Robert Gottlieb and the actress Maria Tucci. Lizzie began her career directing theater in New York. Her first feature documentary, Today’s Man, follows her brother Nicky, who is on the autism spectrum.

7:00pm: The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo, 105 min

Q/A with Director Bruce Weber; Sylvia Di Paolo in conversation with Nancy Buirski

For 50 years, Italian photographer Paolo Di Paolo’s pictures were hidden away. Even his daughter didn’t know her father had been a photographer. But when she found a box of his photographs one day, she discovered that he had portrayed some of the most important people in the history of creative Italy. There were images of filmmakers and writers like Pasolini, Mastroianni, Anna Magnani, Bernardo Bertolucci and Alberto Moravia. She persuaded her father to show the pictures to the world.

For American photographer and film director Bruce Weber, Di Paolo’s pictures were a revelation. His tribute portrait is a stylish, elegant black-and- white film that turns the clock back to a bygone and romantic cinephile past. Bruce Weber’s award-winning films include six feature length documentaries, among them, the Oscar-nominated Let’s Get Lost, and numerous short films.

Monday, December 5, 2022

Location: Bay Street Theater

12:00pm: Real Fur, 89 min

Q/A with Director Taimoor Choudhry and Andrew Botsford

For years, Taimoor Choudhry led a life of glamour, rubbing elbows with celebrities, fashionistas and the elite as he grew his family’s fine jewelry empire in Pakistan. His passions and priorities took a dramatic turn after witnessing animal cruelty in a market. That moment changed him and it became his mission to raise awareness through the art of documentary film. Real Fur is an eye-opening undercover investigation about the true cost of the fur farming industry in Canada.

After moving to Canada to pursue a film degree, Taimoor was shocked to learn that the animal exploitation he thought he’d left behind in Pakistan was very much present in his new home. In response to this, Taimoor founded Arise Productions and has dedicated the past five years to activism and animal rights through film.

3:00pm: Shorts Program (98 min)

The Flagmakers, 35 min
The Flagmakers, a meditation on the American Dream, follows workers at the country’s largest maker of American flags including the refugees and immigrants who have risked everything to come to the USA.

54 Miles To Home, 26 min
In 1965 three black farming families risked their lives by providing refuge to the thousands of voting rights marchers on the historic five day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Nearly 60 years later, The Halls, Steeles and Gardners share for the first time what their parents and grandparents sacrificed and how their families’ legacies and this historic land can be preserved for generations to come.

Footsteps, 12 min
Footsteps provides a peek into the magic and ingenuity of a team of exceptional and idiosyncratic Foley artists and the work that goes into the creation of soundtracks for feature films, TV series and video games. Founded by renowned Canadian Foley artist Andy Malcom in 2005, this unique facility in Uxbridge, Ontario has over 600 screen credits—many which you certainly know—to its name.

Pony Boys, 25 min
Summer, 1967. Two young Massachusetts brothers—ages 9 and 11—set off on an improbable journey with their family pet, a Shetland pony named King. Tony and Jeff Whittemore are desperate to visit Expo ’67 in Montreal—the largest World’s Fair ever—but their parents can’t take them. Then Mom comes up with the solution: hitch King to a pony cart and drive 350 miles to Expo '67—on their own—at 5 m.p.h.!

5:30pm: COVID Century - The Pandemic Preparedness Dilemma, 98 min

Zoom Q/A with Director Michael Wech and Andrew Botsford

In most peoples’ memories the Covid-19 pandemic started in the first weeks of spring 2020, but the decisive period for why the outbreak in Wuhan turned into an epidemic started much earlier. Covid Century highlights key moments of the first ten weeks after the discovery of the new disease that were crucial to the pandemic's global spread. Jeremy Farrar, one of the world's leading scientists, says, "We could have stopped the pandemic."

In a previously unseen manner, the investigative film by Michael Wech shows how the Chinese authorities withheld crucial information and impeded for weeks any attempt to share the identity of the new pathogen with the international community. This fatal delay circumvented global containment strategies hindering the development of much-needed, diagnostic tests and vaccines.

Michael Wech’s 2019 documentary Resistance Fighters, about the global antibiotics crisis, received the "Impact Award" at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the "Grand Prix" at the Pariscience Festival International du Film Scientifique and was nominated for the German Television Award.

7:30pm: 2022 ART and INSPIRATION AWARD - Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums, 99 min

Q/A with Director Soren Sorensen and Andrew Botsford

Multiple Grammy-nominee, Cuba- born pianist and composer, Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today. He fuses a wide range of jazz, world music and electronic elements with his native Afro-Cuban roots to create a fresh and original sound with a Latin jazz heart.

In his 25+ years as a solo artist, Omar Sosa has released over 30 albums and received four Grammy nominations and three Latin Grammy nominations. Often performing as many as 100 concerts across six continents annually, Sosa is known for a rhythmic style and musical influences and collaborators as diverse as his travel itinerary.

Soren Sorensen is an award-winning filmmaker specializing in social and cultural issues. His first feature-length documentary, My Father’s Vietnam, combines interviews and never-before-seen photographs and 8mm footage of the era, to tell the story of three soldiers.

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Location: Bay Street Theater

10:00am: YOUNG VOICES PROGRAM for students, faculty and family

3:00pm: Playing in the FM Band: The Steve Post Story, 90 min

Q/A with Director Rosemarie Reed and Andrew  Botsford

Steve Post, a Jewish kid born in 1944 in the Bronx, was an overweight, hapless nebbish who had a complicated childhood. His mother died of cancer when he was 10 years old, after which he and his older brother spent two years in a Dickensian boarding school, where he was taunted and mercilessly bullied. Back at home, he found escape from his dreary existence in creating radio programs. Ignoring strict parental prohibitions, Post surreptitiously used his father’s reel- to-reel tape recorder to create and host radio programs. Eventually, in 1966, he realized his childhood dream at Pacifica Radio’s WBAI-FM in New York City, becoming a successful cult radio personality with “The Outside,” an innovative all-night, live, free-form broadcast heard Saturday nights for some 15 years.

Rosemarie Reed travels the world to film her highly acclaimed documentaries. Some of her films document the lives of scientists such as Irène Joliot-Curie and Frederic Joliot Curie and Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn. Others include historical figures and world leaders, such as Mikhail Gorbachev.

5:30pm: 2022 HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD - Four Winters, 96 min

Zoom Q/A with Director Julia Mintz and Andrew  Botsford

Four Winters: Against extraordinary odds, over 25,000 Jewish Partisans fought back against the Nazis and their collaborators from the forests of WWII's Belarus, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. These determined men and women, many barely teens, engaged in acts of sabotage, blowing up trains, burning electric stations, and attacking armed enemy headquarters. A fusion of inspiring and powerful first- person interviews, family photographs and rare archival footage shatter the myth of Jewish passivity. The last surviving partisans tell their stories of resistance in Four Winters, revealing a stunning narrative of heroism and resilience.

Julia Mintz’s work focuses on inspiring narratives that reflect on soulful bravery and resistance against unimaginable odds. She has been on the producing team for films shortlisted for Academy Awards; premiered at Cannes, Sundance and TriBeCa; and won Emmy, Peabody and festival awards. Four Winters is Julia’s directorial debut.

8:00pm: CLOSING NIGHT FILM - All That Breathes, 97 min

Zoom Q/A with Director Shanuak Sen & Andrew Botsford

All That Breathes" blends a verité-style character study with gorgeous nature cinematography while never losing the film’s overall commentary on how man interacts with nature—or merely chooses to destroy it through inaction.

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, a staple in the skies of New Delhi.
From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the "kite brothers" care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from 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. Human and animal life is not divided in a city like New Delhi—it is all part of the same tableau, and Sen’s film captures it with a blend of striking beauty and empathetic fragility.

Shaunak Sen is an Indian filmmaker, video artist and film scholar from Delhi. All That Breathes won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Date: December 1 - 6, 2022

Location:

Bay Street Theater, 1 Bay Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Sag Harbor Cinema, 90 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY 11963

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