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Original Name: Bergmál
English Name: Echo
Year: 2019
Run Time: 79'
Language: Icelandic
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Iceland, France, Switzerland
Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Producer: Live Hide, Lilja Ósk Snorrardóttir,
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Cast: Sigurmar Albertsson, Bent Kingo Andersen,
Sif Arnarsdóttir, Ari Arnarson, Finnur Arnar Arnarson
Screenplay: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Cinematographer: Sophia Olsson
Editor: Jacob Secher Schulsinger
Sound Designer: Gunnar Óskarsson
Music Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson
Costume Designer: Júlíanna Lára Steingrímsdóttir
Production Designer: Gus Olafsson
Production Company: Nimbus Iceland, Pegasus Pictures
World Sales: Jour2fête
World Sales Phone: +33 6 77 19 48 58
World Sales Email: sales@jour2fete.com
Rúnar Rúnarsson is an Icelandic filmmaker 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 (2011) premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. His sophomore feature Sparrows won the Golden Shell at San Sebastian in 2015. Echo is Rúnar Rúnarsson’s third feature-film.
Iceland, Christmas time.
As everyone prepares for the holidays, a peculiar atmosphere falls upon the country revealing emotions of both excitement and concern. In the middle of the countryside, an abandoned farm is burning. In a school, a children’s choir is singing Christmas carols. In a slaughterhouse, chickens are parading along a rail. In a museum, a mother is arguing with her ex-husband on the phone. In a living room, a young girl is making her grandmother try on her new virtual reality headset. Through 56 scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern society.
