ECHO OF YOU

EKKO AF KÆRLIGHED • UPCOMING • 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

Produced by Manna Film with support from the Danish Film Institute, FilmFyn & DR.

ECHO OF YOU will have its world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in their Luminous section in November 2023. Danish premiere on February 23rd 2024. The film is also part of the 2024 programme at CPH:DOX.

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