“Through patchwork storytelling, stitched from memory, loss, and quiet resilience, it gives visual shape to a struggle for survival and presence. A film teeming with ideas, where poetry and politics intertwine, echoing the fierce refrain of its closing song: “You’re going down, all you colonizers with crooked intentions, we’ll never drown.”

-Anne Delseth, Visions du Réel

Paiso submerges the whole thing in deep blue, toys with mixed media, harnesses sound, and exposes the imposing systems that leave populations disenfranchised. But what animates the film further is how Paiso refuses to cede an inch to mere pathos and instead pays close attention to the inner lives the make a community survive, that no violent forces could ever encroach and drown. It’s a visually contained craft that’s simply sui generis.

-Rappler.com