The Echo

Directed By Tatiana Huezo
Starring Montserrat Hernandez, María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia, Luz María Vázquez González

El Eco, a remote village in northern Mexico, life consists of the most elementary, basic things. Being a child/teen of labouring farmers 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 made a name for herself as a sensitive and poetic documentarian and filmmaker with films like Prayers for the Stolen.

Accompanying three families in her new work, the notion of meandering becomes an informing principle as she brilliantly weaves a host of faces and gestures into a kaleidoscope of unpretentiousness. Subtly, she portrays the care-working matriarchy in a country notorious for its innumerable kidnappings of young women and girls.

A tender film that celebrates the grace of all animals and the children of this earth alike.