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Echoes of Home

Sneak Preview. Growing up in the Alps, Christian Zehnder was repulsed by the "cheesy" yodeling of Swiss folk music. The masterful singer has transformed this wordless art into a wondrous sonic realm. Echoes of Home is out for big game — it's about nothing less than our shared journey to fulfill "a perpetual longing for something one has lost." With such weighty matters and alpine vistas as a backdrop, we follow Zehnder and other Swiss singers such as the American expatriate Erika Stucky, whose idiosyncratic agendas will forever change your view of Switzerland. When Zehnder connects with the throat singers of Mongolia, we see the potential of the human voice to access every possible range of emotion. A gem of a film, Echoes shows us that the road to freedom can be found inside ourselves.