‘El Eco’ by Tatiana Huezo is the best documentary of the Berlinale

Among the winning Mexican productions al 73rd Berlin International Film Festivalis found ‘El Eco’, by Salvadoran director Tatiana Huezo che, won the award for best documentary in this co-production of Mexico and Germany with a sensitive and strong story located in the north of the country.

‘El Eco’ is located in the northern region of Mexico where life is not easy, it complicates into an intense experience for the children of that city. The little one gets involved in nature, people, animals, but goes further by portraying themes of love, illness, death and even intimacy.

These are the information offered by the synopsis of Winner of best documentary at the Berlinalewhere ‘El Eco’ captivated the jury, as some of its members pointed out, for being a film that opens up to the world, which highlights the director’s work and honestly conveys the passage of time.

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Tatiana Huezo She dedicated the win to her daughter, saying she is her inspiration, as well as all the women making films in Mexico and those making their way in the industry. Likewise, she stressed that winning is “a night to celebrate documentary”, for her one of the genres that mean “a path of love and faith”.

Inside winner of the best documentary of the Berlinale, El Eco It is a town that is more than 3,000 meters above sea level in Puebla, a place where there are no decent jobs and its inhabitants survive on the harvest, on what they sow themselves and through their animals. Here are the women who take care of the houses and this life.

‘El Eco’ also gives a voice to women, as Tatiana Huezo has been doing a few yesterday: “It overwhelms my soul and spirit to be able to play real female characters”, as the director says, cinema and the media have still portrayed static female characters and aesthetic, full of clichés, but that’s not what she stands for.