KOLKATA: A year after Payal Kapadia's 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' won the L'Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' (ATB) has been given the same award at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. This is expected to have a huge impact on Kolkata's docu makers, whose works have often been deprived of attention.
Kolkata's Ranabir Das, who was the cinematographer and editor of Kapadia's film, had walked the Cannes red carpet last year. This year, Sen's Cannes presence got noticed globally. Sen had recently told TOI that he has a “kind of cautious and guarded optimism that things are becoming better. Guarded, because a lot of documentaries get crowded out and lost in the chaotic space of OTT platform. Having said that, let’s not forget that non-fiction has had an enormous resurgence”.
