The Echo

The Echo is a 2023 Mexican-German docufiction film directed by Tatiana Huezo. The film, which also includes fictional elements, portrays the children of an isolated village "El Echo", in the Mexican highlands. The film is co-produced by Germany, and was selected to receive its world premiere in the Encounters section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, on 17 February 2023. Plot El Echo, a remote village in Puebla, the Mexican highlands, where conditions change drastically between seasons, the children tend to the sheep and take care of their elders. Dealing with the frost and drought, the children learn to understand death, illness, and love from every word and every silence of their parents. The Echo is a story about the echo of what lies in the soul, about the certainty of warmth from those around us, "about rebellion and vertigo in the face of life" and "about growing up". Cast Montserrat Hernández Hernández as Montse María de los Ángeles Pacheco Tapia as Abuela Angeles Luz María Vázquez González as Luz Ma Sarahí Rojas Hernández as Sarahí William Antonio Vázquez González as Toño Uriel Hernández Hernández as Uriel Ramiro Hernández Hernández as Ramiro Berenice Cortés Muñoz as Bere Andrea González Lima as Andrea