“The film suggests that we too may be approaching the end of our time on Earth — and that the beginning of a new cycle of life is an inevitable, beautiful reality of our universe.”

“This project is the arrival of the sacred architecture of Lalibela into Sharjah under a new guise as it mutates from stone to salt, carrying with it its attendant myths from across the Red Sea and through the Arabian Peninsula.”

“By revealing past and present violence and destruction in the Mekong Delta, "First Rain, Brise-Soleil" proposes a gentler view of modernity that embraces the poetry and lyricism of indigenous knowledge and the region’s fragile ecosystem. ”