India, Sept. 6 -- Indian filmmaker Shaunak Sen is turning his lens inwards for his new documentary after the Oscar-nominated All That Breathes. In a recent interview, the filmmaker said that his next film began as a "coping" mechanism after a shock cancer diagnosis, but continues the motifs of environmental degradation and caregiving from his previous work.

In an interview with AFP, the 39-year-old filmmaker opened up about his upcoming untitled documentary. "It became a kind of coping strategy, or a way to deal or dissociate or displace the terror of what you've just been told," he said, adding that his diagnosis brought home "the same risks" that make hundreds of birds fall every year from New Delhi's throat-burning polluted skies -- t...