Dir: Tatiana Huezo
Cast: Montserrat Hernandez, María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia, Luz María Vázquez González
Spanish with English subtitles
102 mins

In Il 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.

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.

“Fascinating and strikingly photographed account of life in rural Mexico. An intimate, immersive portrait of a way of life – its rhythms, hardships and its communal joys – told through the eyes of the young people who rarely question it” Screen International

“Poetic view of Mexican childhood and finely textured rural family portrait, Huezo observes this splintering community with unsentimental tenderness” Variety

“Striking, multigenerational story of women and nature. A melancholically lush and intricately humanist portrait” The Playlist
“Impressive, The Echo is very much in the tradition of European ethnographic films such as Etre et Avoir and The Truffle Hunters” The Arts Desk

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