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This film block brings together stories set in shared spaces, where people and wildlife live in close proximity. Villages, forests, coastlines, and working landscapes become places where daily life unfolds alongside environmental risk, conservation efforts, and questions of belonging.
Across these films, coexistence is shaped through practice rather than theory. Crocodiles move through village waters, friends walk the Oregon coast in search of connection, researchers track vulnerable species, families confront the effects of industrial land use, and wolves are carefully reintroduced into the wild. Together, the films consider how shared ground is negotiated through responsibility, conflict, and care, and what it takes to live with others in an increasingly crowded world.
In India, a country in the throes of a human-wildlife conflict crisis, a unique anomaly exists in the villages of the Charotar region of Gujarat. Here, people live in harmony with India’s largest freshwater predator - marsh crocodiles, or muggers. Charotar has had less than 10 attacks in the last 10 years even with growing populations of both humans and muggers. But it’s a little more complicated than just tolerance.
Phir Bhi (Even So) follows the crocodile-friendly people of Charotar to understand what makes their coexistence with their reptilian neighbours possible and what threats it faces. This is a story of how the power of community and the unrelenting work of grassroots conservation organisations can make a big difference to our shared future with animals.
- Year2025
- Runtime26:02
- LanguageEnglish, Gujarati, Hindi
- CountryUnited Kingdom, India
- DirectorMeghna Nandy
- ScreenwriterMeghna Nandy
- ProducerMeghna Nandy
- CinematographerMeghna Nandy, Nikki Dodd
- EditorMeghna Nandy
- MusicLeo Alexander
This film block brings together stories set in shared spaces, where people and wildlife live in close proximity. Villages, forests, coastlines, and working landscapes become places where daily life unfolds alongside environmental risk, conservation efforts, and questions of belonging.
Across these films, coexistence is shaped through practice rather than theory. Crocodiles move through village waters, friends walk the Oregon coast in search of connection, researchers track vulnerable species, families confront the effects of industrial land use, and wolves are carefully reintroduced into the wild. Together, the films consider how shared ground is negotiated through responsibility, conflict, and care, and what it takes to live with others in an increasingly crowded world.
In India, a country in the throes of a human-wildlife conflict crisis, a unique anomaly exists in the villages of the Charotar region of Gujarat. Here, people live in harmony with India’s largest freshwater predator - marsh crocodiles, or muggers. Charotar has had less than 10 attacks in the last 10 years even with growing populations of both humans and muggers. But it’s a little more complicated than just tolerance.
Phir Bhi (Even So) follows the crocodile-friendly people of Charotar to understand what makes their coexistence with their reptilian neighbours possible and what threats it faces. This is a story of how the power of community and the unrelenting work of grassroots conservation organisations can make a big difference to our shared future with animals.
- Year2025
- Runtime26:02
- LanguageEnglish, Gujarati, Hindi
- CountryUnited Kingdom, India
- DirectorMeghna Nandy
- ScreenwriterMeghna Nandy
- ProducerMeghna Nandy
- CinematographerMeghna Nandy, Nikki Dodd
- EditorMeghna Nandy
- MusicLeo Alexander