Through the labor of three New Delhi locals rescuing birds who fall from a polluted sky, All That Breathes offers a meditation on how we live not just with other humans but also with other species. Portraying the city as an ecological system that clearly includes wildlife, the film challenges the oft-perpetuated divide between human and natural systems. Indeed, alternatives to anthropocentric ways of knowing are shared by cultures across the planet, including the First Peoples of the Bay Area.

In cities, places historically built for humans to escape or “conquer” nature, what does it look like to include soils, waters, plants, and animals in our assumption of “community”? As city dwellers, what caretaking rituals might we create as pathways to rebalancing our relationship with the natural world? How can we make our cities more equitable and healthy through the process?