“Anything but simple, manages to surprise and stun … Filmed with ambitious scope and devastating intimacy.”

“Superb… a level of deep, intimate access and rapport that few filmmakers can hope to achieve… Unfolds more like a riveting neorealist drama.”

“Simple as Water is a magnificent film! As a Syrian filmmaker and a Syrian, it left a huge impact in my heart and my memory. When people look after 20 years, when they ask and want to think about the Syrian immigrants or the Syrian exodus, we can say, “Go and watch Simple as Water.”

“If you ever wanted to know what being human is, this film, from its first sequence on, grasps you in the womb, deep in your most profound being, in what defines us all as the human family. A film unlike anything you have ever seen before. Pure, Limpid, it will shatter your vision of life. Your own, in particular.”

“I felt it so deeply, these characters are my fellow Syrians, the way I know them, the way I haven’t seen them in a long time. The cameras of the zillion reports, films, videos that have been about them, rarely show them as I know them.”