Echo / Eho
Kosovo, Germany 2016

Hanna, a 65-year-old woman is involved in an accident in Germany in which a young man dies. She sets out to condole with the young man's family, but nobody knows who he is as it seems he was in Germany illegally and using a false name. At the same time in Kosovo, Ismet, a 71-year-old man who lives a lonely and monotonous life in a house in the outskirts of the town, desperately awaits the money transfer that he receives every month from his son who is working abroad. A subtle, lyrical and visually impressive portrait of two ageing people thousands of kilometres apart, yet drawn together through a fatal accident, their loss and loneliness, Echo is a critique of both eastern and western social systems that often overlook their elderly, reminding us of the importance of family bonds.