THE ECHO
POLISH TITLE: ECHO
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Two teenagers brutally kill their friend. Helped by a police psychologist they are reconstructing the chronological order of events. Gradually, they begin to realize the noxiousness of the murder and its consequences. However, they will not discover the scale of the crime until they meet the victim’s parents.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
- GENRE:
- fiction
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 14'
- YEAR:
- 2009
- DIRECTING:
- Magnus von Horn
- SCRIPT:
- Magnus von Horn
- DOP:
- Malgorzata Szylak
- EDITOR:
- Bogusława Furga
- CAST:
- Radomir Rospondek, Marek Kossakowski, Piotr Skiba, Ewa Suchanek, Dorota Segda, Mariusz Siudzinski, Kamila Sammler, Leon Charewicz
- PRODUCTION:
- PWSFTviT (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna)
Magnus von Horn »
Born in 1983 in Göteborg (Sweden). He studied Film Theory at Göteborg University (2002-2003) and then worked as an assistant camera operator on several Swedish film productions (2003-2004). Since 2004 he has been studying Film Directing at the Film School in Łódź. He has made a number of short documentary and fiction films, which include Radek (2006), Milk Teeth (2007), Odlot (2008) and Echo (2009).
AT FESTIVALS:
- Festival de Cannes, Short Film Corner, France, 2009 (screening)
- 8th Concorto Film Festival, Pontenure (Piacenza), Italy, 2009 (screening)
- Toronto Polish Film Festival, 2009 (screening)
- Istanbul Short Film Fesival, 2009 (screening)
- 24th Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 2009 (screening)
- Festival on Wheels, 2009 (screening)
- MIT European Short Film Festival, USA, 2010 (screening)
- Nashville Film Festival, USA, 2010 (screening)
- 12th International Eskisehir Film Days, Turkey, 2010 (screening)
- WIZ-ART FESTIVAL, Ukraine, 2010 (screening)
- Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (screening)
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK, 2010 (screening)
- Curtas Vila do Conde , Portugal, 2010 (screening)
- Message to Man International Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia, 2010 (screening)
- Festival Silhouette Courts Metrages, France, 2010 (screening)
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia Mexico, 2010 (screening)
- Fresh Wave 2010 – International Short Film Festival, Hong Kong, 2010 (screening)
- Hamptons International Film Festival, USA, 2010 (screening)
- Festival de Boca del Lobo, Spain, 2010 (screening)
- Kyiv International Film Festival MOLODIST, Ukraine, 2010 (screening)
- ALCINE - Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, 2010 (screening)
- 20th Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, Australia, 2011 (screening)
- Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images, Italy, 2012 (screening)
- 10th International Festival Signes de Nuit, France, 2012 (screening)
- Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, France, 2018 (screening)
- Leuven Short Film Festival 2018, Belgium, 2018 (screening)
- 16th Camerimage Film Festival, Poland, 2008 (competition)
- FEST - International Film Festival, Portugal, 2009 (competition)
- Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, 2009 (competition)
- 24th Odense Film Festival, 2009 (competition)
- Open St. Petersburg Student Film Festival “Beginning”, Russia, 2009 (competition)
- 9th Short Film International Festival of Lille, 2009 (competition)
- The Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, 2009 (competition)
- The International Short Film Festival, Curtocircuito, Spain, 2009 (competition)
- Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia, 2009 (competition)
- The Leeds International Film Festival (Short Film City 2009), UK, 2009 (competition)
- Alcine 39 Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares/Comunidad de Madrid, 2009 (competition)
- 8th International Student and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy, 2009 (competition)
- 19th Film Festival Cottbus, Germany, 2009 (competition)
- Munich International Festival of Film Schools, 2009 (competition)
- The 10. up-and-coming Int. Film Festival Hannover, 2009 (competition)
- Bilbao Film Festival, 2009 (competition)
- Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2009 (competition)
- Prague Short Film Festival, 2010 (competition)
- Sundance Film Festival, USA, 2010 (competition)
- KINOFABULA STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL, 2010 (competition)
- 33rd Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden, 2010 (competition)
- Next Reel International Film Festival, Singapore, 2010 (competition)
- Tampere Film Festival, Finland , 2010 (competition)
- REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada, 2010 (competition)
- International Student Film Festival Early Melons 2010, Slovakia, 2010 (competition)
- Aspen Shortsfest, USA, 2010 (competition)
- 2ANNAS International Short Film Festival in Riga, Latvia, 2010 (Grand Prix)
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2010 (competition)
- Maremetraggio - International Short Film Festival, Italy, 2010 (competition)
- Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, 2010 (competition)
- ALPINALE Short Film Festival, Austria, 2010 (competition)
- Aye Aye Film Festival, France, 2010 (competition)
- Best Of Short Films Festival, France, 2010 (competition)
- MANHATTAN SHORT, USA, 2010 (competition)
- Ourense International Film Festival, Spain, 2010 (competition)
- Festival du cinéma européen en Essonne, France, 2010 (Grand Prix du Conseil Général de l'Essonne du Court Métrage)
- B16 - International Competitive Festival Of Short Fiction Films, Czech Republic, 2010 (competition)
- International Festival for Cinema Schools FIDEC, Belgique, 2010 (competition)
- 24fps International Short Film Festival, USA, 2010 (competition)
- V INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL "IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE", Russia, 2010 (competition)
- goEast Film Festival, Germany, 2011 (competition)
- Imaginaria Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (competition)