The Echo Chamber

Direct from competing In Competition at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival, The Echo Chamber is a spellbinding romantic drama about time and memory starring Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Luca Marinelli (The Eight Mountains IFF23) and Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise). Directed by Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro and featuring a score composed by Academy Award® winner Clément Ducol (Emilia Pérez), this final work of Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, 1900), who wrote the story and screenplay with Ilaria Bernardini (Beloved) and Ludovica Rampoldi (also directs A Brief Affair), follows a love story where the boundaries between presence and absence, care and dependence, desire and control blur until they dissolve. In an endless cycle of longing and separation, intimacy and distance, Leo (Marinelli) and Anne (Vikander) chase each other, but as they drift apart and search for their way back, they cannot let go nor break free. Meanwhile, songstress Ava’s (Sarandon) voice echoes across time, bringing to the surface that which endures and can no longer be held back.

Born in 1982 in Trento, Italy, Andrea Pallaoro is a filmmaker and writer. He holds an MFA in film directing from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Hampshire College. His feature film debut, Medeas (2013), premiered at the Orizzonti section of the 70th Venice International Film Festival. He is best known for his films Hannah (2017), which premiered in competition at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and Monica (2022).