If a soul leaves one body to find another, what does it feel? How does it sound? The latest film from Lois Patiño, known for Red Moon Tide and Coast of Death, is split in two: two worlds, two belief systems, two sets of experiences, and two sets of inner lives. What joins them is a cosmic thread. The story begins near a miraculous waterfall in South East Asia and continues traveling to a fishing village in East Africa. Its route is a bridge not found on any map; perhaps only cinema could attempt to replicate it.

Continuing his previous work, The Sower of Stars, shot in Japan, Lois PATIÑO leaves his familiar landscapes to explore the visual and sensory adventure in a new place. Set in two locations, Laos and Zanzibar, Samsara subtly and respectfully weaves fiction and reality in real sceneries and with people who live there to tell a beautiful story of how different religion belief systems understand life, death, and the afterlife. Samsara successfully shows the invisible through the most dangerous and poetic proposal that a film can offer to the audience today: requesting them to close their eyes. It is lauded as the best exemplar (to date) of PATIÑO's directorial talent by stepping closer to the characters that the filmmaker created and blending gentle emotions into the screen. (Sung MOON)