El Eco is the name of a small village in northern Mexico. Filmmaker Tatiana Huezo spent a year in this community and followed three families: young mothers, many children, a very frail grandmother and a series of absent fathers, almost all construction workers who leave for long periods of time. What the documentary maker finds and stages is a small matriarchal society built on an umbilical relationship with nature and around the idea of transmission (of agricultural practices, gestures, language, the way of caring for the living and the dead) - all in a region known for the high number of kidnappings of women and children.
El eco premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Best Director award in the Encounters section and Best Documentary award.