ECHO
O.V. in Icelandic subtitled in Spanish and English
The director of Gorriones (Concha de Oro in San Sebastian 2015) makes a comeback with Echo, winner of the Youth Jury Prize in Locarno: an alternative Christmas story with an incredible sense of humour, tempo and composition. Iceland, Christmas. This is the starting point for this choral mosaic about Icelandic society made up of images where comedy and wit work by association and accumulation. Using methods similar to those employed by Roy Andersson, and seeing the human condition closely related to the view of Östlund.
CATALOGUE: A choral mosaic of the Icelandic society during the preparations and the celebration of Christmas, crossed by a humanist vision not exempt of sense of humour.
Direction : Rúnar Rúnarsson
Script : Rúnar Rúnarsson
Cinematography: Sophia Olsson
Editing: Jacob Secher Schulsinger
Music: Kjartan Sveinsson
Sound: Gunnar Óskarsson
Production: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Live Hide, Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir
Production Company: Nimbus Iceland, Pegasus Pictures, Jour2Fête
Rúnar Rúnarsson
He was born in Reykjavik in 1977. In 2009, he graduated from the Directors’ section of The National Film School of Denmark. His short film The Last Farm (2004) was an Academy-Award nominee and was followed by 2 Birds, which competed for the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His first feature Volcano premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. His sophomore feature Sparrows won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian in 2015. Echo, his third feature-film, won the Young Audience Award at Locarno, and the Best Director Award at Valladolid in 2019.
