The Echo, directed by the Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, is one of the films selected for the San Diego Latino Film Festival 2024 Spotlight Section, a program that gives a Panorama of the best Latin American films of 2023, offering boundary-pushing propositions from exciting, diverse, award-winning, and established cinematic voices from our continent. The Echo premiered last year at the Encounters Section of Berlinale-Berlin International Film Festival where the director won the Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The film takes place 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 director Tatiana Huezo graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica and has a Master’s Degree in Creative Documentary from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her work has been widely recognized around the world and acknowledged by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences with eight Ariel awards; among them Best Documentary and Best Director for Tempestad, which premiered in the 66th Berlinale Forum; as well as Best Film for Prayers for the Stolen, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival, where it received a special mention from the jury.
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