The film takes viewers on a silent journey through a delicate wetland ecosystem on the shores of an industrial city.
Sometimes Even The Shore Drowns, a film by Mahera Omar, on Sunday won the best international special mention award at the 5th Nepal Cultural International Film Festival in Kathmandu.
Featuring the mighty periwinkle, the bubbler crab and Karachi’s mangrove forest, the film is an ode to the human and non-human inhabitants of the city by the sea.
Set against the backdrop of human activity in and around mangrove forest creeks, amidst steaming vessels and a new skyline, the film takes one on a silent journey through a delicate wetland ecosystem on the shores of an industrial city.