Forest of Echoes

Bosque de Ecos

Forest of Echoes

Luz Olivares Capelle

AT
2017
Feature Film
30’
Focus

A teenager, Christina, loses her friends in the forest. Looking for them she finds the bodies of three drowned kids on the shore of a lagoon. On summer holiday, deep in the woods, three kids, cousins, are playing around a lake when they find a drowned young woman drifting in the water. Games, lies and rituals unfolding into a circular time in which death loses its ultimacy. What is real and what is a mirage? Who is dreaming and who is being dreamed?

Film series Hope & Fear


Awards for ›Forest of Echoes‹ (Selection)
Best Medium-Lenght Film – Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany 2017 | Best Short Film – Austrian Film Awards 2017 | Grand Prix International – Cork Film Festival 2016 | Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize – Diagonale, Graz 2016 | Best Austrian Short Film – Vienna Independent Shorts 2016

Director / Script

Luz Olivares Capelle

Cinematography

Sebastian Thaler

Editing

László Váncsa

Production

Filmakademie Wien

Contact

sixpackfilm

Luz Olivares Capelle

Luz Olivares Capelle was born in Rufino, Argentina. She gained a BA degree in Film Directing from ENERC film school in Buenos Aires. Under Prof. Michael Haneke at the Film Academy Vienna, Capelle obtained a Master’s degree in Film Directing. Her graduation film was Forest of Echoes. She also studied Graphic Arts and Printmaking Techniques at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.


Films by Luz Olivares Capelle
El ritual del Color 2015 | Apariciones 2014 | Die Regenbogen-Maschine 2013 | Bienvenido 2005