08 Jun THE ECHO

THE ECHO

Mexico, Germany / 2023 / 102’

DIRECTED BY: Tatiana Huezo

SCREENPLAY BY: Tatiana Huezo

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ernesto Pardo

EDITED BY: Lucrecia Gutiérrez, Tatiana Huezo

PRODUCERS: Tatiana Huezo, Dalia Reyes

MUSIC: Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman

FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Berlinale (Documentary Film Award, Best Director), Hong Kong International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival

A young mother runs across a mountain meadow with her children and they save a sheep from drowning. A girl cares for her elderly grandmother so tenderly that you want to cry while another practice being a teacher with just the right tone of voice, her dolls lined up before her as willing pupils. The fathers are mostly absent: as construction workers or tradesmen, they rarely share their daily lives with their families. In El Eco, a remote village in northern Mexico, life consists of the most elementary things. Being a child here is an intense experience from day one, involving nature, animals, and people. But also love intimacy, illness, and death. And education – at least for the younger generation.

Tatiana Huezo is a Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker. She has a degree from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City and a master’s in creative documentary from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Her debut feature film El lugar más pequeño already garnered international attention. Tempestad premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2016 and won the Ariel film award in Mexico in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Director while her feature film Noche de Fuego received a Special Mention from the jury at Cannes. Both films were also entered for the Oscars and the Goya Awards.