Wood and Water casts a sympathetic eye across trans-continental family bonds, growing older, and finding connection in an increasingly chaotic world. Here the inevitable, the uncontrollable, and the senseless prove common ground for kindness and discovery rather than alienation.

- One Room with a View

The images, the forest—the natural world where the film begins and ends—and the thronged, high-rise-lined, neon-lit Hong Kong streets, have a richness and presence [...] this modest but beautifully shot and edited film contains some of the last images of daily life in a free Hong Kong that we’ll ever see.

- Art Forum

"A calm exploration of the way the space taken by maternal love can be redefined, and an invitation to the voyage rich in de-licate propositions on matters such as distance, human contact and spirituality, studied from the most simple scale.”

- Cineuropa

It is a film that is alive and full of life. [...] There are small revelations that work together to create a real emotional punch. [...] Days passed and it was still haunting me.

- Unseen Films

I was especially taken by Jonas Bak’s gentle charac-ter study [...] it’s in the brief encounters, the small talk and the unspoken hurt that our heroine comes to life.

- New York Times

The nearly abstract transition from Germany to Hong Kong [...] has to be one of the most beautifully accomplished sequences of the year so far.

- Criterion Daily