This tender, atmospheric debut from Thai director Patiparn Boontarig, set in a coastal town in southern Thailand, uniquely tackles climate change, tradition, identity, and LGBT love. Shati, a Muslim from a conservative family, works at the local art gallery where she meets Fon, an activist-turned-visual artist from Bangkok. Immediately attracted to each other, this opens deep internal conflict for Shati, whose traditional roots forbid same-sex relationships. Fon sees things differently: ‘If we impose limitations on our lives, they end up eroding our own selves.’ This is like the ‘solids’ – the poorly built seawalls intended for coastal defence, but ultimately responsible for further soil erosion with beaches filled with sand from elsewhere, the sands unable to combine.