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El Eco
In a remote village, the silence speaks louder than words as children learn life’s hardest lessons from the world around them.
El Eco
The Echo
102 min | Drama | 2023 | México, Germany
Spanish with English Subtitles
Storyline
In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to the soul, about the certainty of shelter provided by those around us, about rebellion and vertigo in the face of life. About growing up.
En un remoto pueblo fuera del tiempo llamado El Eco, los niños cuidan de las ovejas y de sus abuelos. Mientras el invierno y la sequía azotan el lugar, ellos aprenden con cada acto, palabra y silencio de sus padres a entender la muerte, el trabajo y el amor.
Director
Tatiana Huezo
Director
Tatiana Huezo, born in 1972 in San Salvador, El Salvador, is an acclaimed director and cinematographer known for The Echo (2023), Prayers for the Stolen (2021), and El lugar más pequeño (2011). She studied film at CCC in Mexico and Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and has taught at institutions like CENTRO and CCC. Her debut documentary, El lugar más pequeño, has won over 40 awards at more than 50 international festivals.
Screenplay
Tatiana Huezo
Producer
Tatiana Huezo, Dalia Reyes,Maya Scherr-Willson, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Doris Hepp
Cinematographer
Ernesto Pardo
Cast
Montserrat Hernandez
María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia
