The Echo
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A young shepherd in a remote village grapples with death, illness, and love while learning life's harsh realities.
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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.
"The Echo (El Eco) is arguably the film with which director Tatiana Huezo (Tempestad) solidifies her aesthetic and poetic vision, creating a cinema where fiction and reality intertwine to tell stories through empathy and from the perspectives of its protagonists. Set in the eponymous village, a sparsely populated corner of rural Mexico, Huezo brings us closer to the lives of children who still retain magic and wonder in their eyes but must grow up in the face of droughts, winter, and death. This is not a film of misery but the opposite; it manages to depict on screen the love in the children's bonds, the connection with the land they live on and coexist with the animals they depend on. It is a humanistic and hopeful view of life in a marginalized, even exploited, but vibrant and interconnected multigenerational community."