ECHO OF YOU
EKKO AF KÆRLIGHED • 2023 • DOCUMENTARY FEATURE • 76 MIN.
When 86-year-old Rene buys flowers, he always thinks about what color his wife would have chosen if she were alive. Like most people in this film, he spent more time with this partner than without.
Through candid, revealing interviews, ’Echo of You’, presents a group of Danish men and women, all aged 80+. With poignant openness and honesty, they share their thoughts on their life partnerships; lost loves who, one way or another, are no longer with them. They discuss the heartbreak of losing a life partner, and the ways in which life goes on. Filmmaker Zara Zerny, tenderly brings their individual voices together like a choir, interweaving them with abstract, dreamy images, music and artistic interpretations of their inner lives. Together, they form a collection of diverse perspectives on love, life, loneliness and death, merging into a unique body of testimony.
A sensuous, life-affirming portrait of a generation slowly saying goodbye.
Director ZARA ZERNY
Producer MARIA MØLLER KJELDGAARD
Director of Photography JACOB SOFUSSEN
Editor SOFIE STEENBERGER
Sound designers TEIS SYVSIG & BOBBY SALOMONSEN
Composer VIKTOR DAHL
Produced by MANNA FILM with support from the DANISH FILM INSTITE, FILMFYN & DR
World Sales SYNDICADO FILMS
World premiere at IDFA - INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM in 2023 in Luminous-section
Danish premiere 23 FEBRUARY 2024 in collaboration with DOX:DANMARK
Festivals CPH:DOX, HOTDOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, ZAGREBDOX, NORDISK PANORAMA, DOCSBARCELONA, DOKFEST MUNCHEN, FULLFRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, FEST - NEW DIRECTORS, MILLENIUM DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FILM FESTIVAL, TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, CROSSING EUROPE FILM FESTIVAL, FESTIVAL VAN DE GELIJKHEID, TARTU LOVE FILM FESTIVAL, AUTOUR DE L’EUROPE, FESTIVAL FILM DOKUMENTER, ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM FESTIVAL, PORDENONE DOCS FEST, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, BERGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ENERGACAMERIMAGE, TRANSILVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL, INTERNATIONALES FRAUEN *FILM FEST, KASSEL DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, LICHTER FILMFEST FRANKFURT INTERNATIONAL
