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‘Echoes’ is a supernatural international anthology where myth collides with modern life. Across cultures, legends return through women’s lives, exposing fear, desire, and the secrets societies bury.
‘Echoes’ is an international supernatural drama anthology. Each episode follows a contemporary woman as small, unexplained changes begin to creep into her ordinary life. At first, they seem insignificant. Then the details start connecting, and a pattern begins to take shape. As the myth awakens, the pieces fall into place, and she recognises the outline of an older story from her land’s folklore. At the centre of that legend is another woman, long reduced to a warning, a monster, or a moral lesson.

The present starts to echo the past, as if the myth has been waiting for a life like hers to resurface. The supernatural becomes a test. It brings her to a moment of choice: repeat the myth, complete it, or break its cycle. Her decision reshapes not only her own fate, but the meaning of the legend itself. Each episode is a complete standalone story set in a different country, grounded in local mythology, language, and landscape. Together, the series examines how inherited stories shape women’s lives, and what changes when a woman refuses the role written for her.

Credits

Director
Marie-Rose Osta
Screenwriter
Marie-Rose Osta, Tamara Ismail
Producer
Gaby and Michel Zarazir
Production Company
Madame le Tapis

About the Director

Marie-Rose Osta
Marie-Rose Osta is a Lebanese screenwriter and director working across film, episodic formats, and video essays. Her new short, ‘Someday, a Child’ (2026), premiered at Berlinale Shorts. Her previous short, ‘Then Came Dark’ (2021), won the Special Jury Prize at the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival and was selected for the 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. Alongside her personal work, she explor
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