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The Echo (12A)
★★★★ Tatiana Huezo’s film about a teenage runaway in the backwoods of Mexico has the look of a drama, and yet it’s a documentary – one that showcases her distinctive, immersive style. ~ The Guardian.
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Tatiana Huezo has made a name for herself as a sensitive and poetic documentarian and filmmaker, and her latest film celebrates the grace of all animals and the children of this earth alike.
El eco won Encounters: Best Director, and Berlinale Documentary Film Award at Berlin International Film Festival 2023.
In a remote village in the Mexican highlands life consists of the most elementary, basic things. Being a child of labouring farmers here is an intense experience from day one, involving nature, animals and people, but also love, intimacy, illness and death.
We accompany three families, as the film brilliantly weaves a host of faces and gestures into a kaleidoscope of unpretentiousness.
Subtly, Huezo portrays the care-working matriarchy in a country notorious for its innumerable kidnappings of young women and girls.
Languages:
Spanish
Subtitles:
English
