In Friedland the world is in order – or has been returned to order at least. In any event, according to locals the past happened a long time ago. But Friedland’s moor doesn’t forget. And there’s more to this moor than mysterious ruins, every once in a while it even spits out a body. And so the story (almost) begins, with the discovery of a moor corpse. Detective Saskia Harder arrives looking for a fresh start following the tragic conclusion to her mission as a police trainer in Afghanistan.

Harder’s investigation is supported by an awkward yet diligent local policeman as well as an enigmatic moor ranger who appears to know more than she is willing to admit. And just when it seemed like things couldn’t get any more complicated, a live World War II bomb is spotted in the manor moat and is going to require detonation…

Mareike Wegener studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Documentary Filmmaking at the New School in New York and Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Her thesis film AL HANSEN – THE MATCHSTICK TRAVELLER was awarded the Gerd Ruge Scholarship. Her first feature-length documentary MARK LOMBARDI – DEATH-DEFYING ACTS OF ART AND CONSPIRACY premiered theatrically in Germany in 2012. The same year she joined forces with fellow filmmakers Hannes Lang and Carmen Losmann to create the production cooperative Petrolio. ECHO is her first feature fiction and premiered in the “Perspektive Deutsches Kino” section at this year’s Berlinale.

Filmography: 2009 AL HANSEN – THE MATCHSTICK TRAVELLER (documentary), 2012 MARK LOMBARDI – DEATH-DEFYING ACTS OF ART AND CONSPIRACY (documentary), 2021 X (short film), 2022 ECHO