Cities of Sleep

(2015)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2015

Runtime: 74 мин

Country: India

Director: Shaunak Sen

Plot

Cities of Sleep takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleeper’s communities as well as the infamous ‘sleep mafia’ in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for a large number of people.The film looks at not only the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in the city but is also a philosophical exploration of sleep at large.