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ICELAND, France, Switzerland | 79 minutes | 2019
A young girl meets her half-sister around a piano. An abandoned farm burns in the countryside. A group of seniors take an aquafitness class. Through a window, a mother and her baby watch the snowflakes fall. The holiday season is fast approaching. Rúnar Rúnarsson’s nuanced portrait of Iceland and its people, captured as the year draws to a close, is a kaleidoscope: 56 little slivers of life that, together, have universal resonance. Presented in competition at Locarno, Echo reflects upon our age, mingling life and death, sorrow and joy.CANADIAN PREMIEREQ&A with Rúnar Rúnarsson on October 12th and 13th"... what makes Echo so enjoyable is its sheer element of surprise and contrariness: we just don’t know what’s coming next – yet each scene is beautifully shot and composed whatever the subject matter." Filmuforia"A work of remarkable melancholy and beauty" The Upcoming
International Competition - Locarno Film Festival
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Feature length:2019 ECHO2015 SPARROWS2011 VOLCANOShort film:2009 ANNA2008 2 BIRDS2004 THE LAST FARMDocumentary:2002 LEITIN AÐ RAJEEV
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Feature film, Fiction
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Feature film, Animation
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