Terra - Xacio Baño

The life of a person can be as easy and straightforward as his recipe for sponge cake.

Echo’s voice was stolen and she was sentenced to repeat what everyone else said. Trapped, she decides to take shelter in a cave and to distance herself from human touch.

A young (?) thirty-year-old film director comes back to his grandparents’ house to spend the weekend. He needs to film them a video-portrait to have it when they are no longer here. It’s simple: his grandmother is in the field and his grandfather is in the woods. He places the camera and starts filming. That’s what cinema is about, isn’t it?

Emilio lives on his own taking refuge in the anonimity of the city. One day on his way to work he is knocked down and he lost his left eyesight. The doctors transplanted the eye of another person and he starts to see his donor’s life.

"Daughter of...". Sister of...". Carme lives in a mountain village deep in the heart of rural Galicia together with her ill mother and her father, Ramón, with whom she barely communicates. She works in a bakery and needs to escape from that oppressive environment, but circumstances always prevent her from taking that final step. Trotting. Running away. Trot takes place during the weekend in which the "Wild Mane Crop" takes place, the ancestral fight of man and horse. The village begins to prepare for the fiesta. Luís, her older brother, returns to the family home for a few days with his girlfriend, María. Trot is the struggle between man and horse, between reason and instinct.

On two pieces that conform with Echo, a trilogy of the written word.