"This film is original, spirited, fresh and courageous. Tirado and his collaborator and star of the film - flamenco dancer Noemi Martinez Chico - create an experience that lingers with the viewer long after the film itself comes to an end. Their dance opera follows the main character-who is actually named "No"-as she dances her way through an "ordinary" day in the city of Seville, and, at the end of it, finds herself extra-ordinarily transformed. Through the use of experimental visual techniques and evocative sound design that remind us of the work of Jaques Tati, No moves from urban isolation and drudgery toward her own self-appreciation and into a vibrant connection with others. As this unfolds, flamenco and other styles of dance operate as a unique form of dialogue. Watching No: A Flamenco Tale feels like walking into a dance designed by Gaudi and reminds us of the power and the potential of cinema."

"With laugh-out-loud humor and joyous color this movie celebrates personal love and community connections when a Dutch tulip farmer, displaced by a major flood, takes his tulips and his fortunes to Italy. Not even the local Mafia's control and cruelty that threaten his new town, his family, and their livelihoods, can triumph over the altruistic goodness he represents."

"In this powerfully visualized and well-acted film, the face of the overwhelming world crisis of refugees and displaced persons becomes deeply personal through a man and his children who find their hopes for work and security vanishing day by day. The film holds up a mirror unflinchingly to society's treatment of people displaced from their own countries."

"This film takes a well-known genre, the detective story, beyond its usual boundaries to a much more confined space-just two rooms. In those two rooms and with just one actor in nearly all the scenes, the film demands the audience to engage their minds and imaginations to see what is happening outside that confined space. With excellent writing, directing, acting, cinematography and editing, the film explores violence, power and guilt with powerful, sometimes devastating, effectiveness."