El Eco
The unique ties which bind rural farming communities are examined in this richly textured documentary which depicts all the nuances of a small Mexican community living in the remote village of El Eco.
Documenting life in the small village of El Eco in Mexico’s Puebla over the course of 18 months, we observe its changes in weather, fortune and the temperament of its few, tightly bonded residents in fine degrees. Here, everyone’s welfare hangs on the same unkind elements; with the frost and drought punishing the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. Will the teenage Montse, prematurely aged by the rigours and responsibilities of a life on the land, break the patten and diverge from the path taken by generations of her ancestors? Salvadoran-Mexican director Tatiana Huezo has somehow crafted this compelling and beautifully observed documentary in such a way that it looks like realist drama. (Subtitles)
Mexico/Germany 2023 Tatiana Huezo 102m
