ÉCU 2016 Winners
Independent films that were officially selected to be a part of ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival 2016 and went on to be the award winning films.
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- DirectorUna GunjakStarsIman AlibalicEsma AlicMirela LambicAs a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to.Won "Best European Independent Film" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorOscar SpierenburgStarsManon VerbeeckLaura VerlindenDirk RoofthooftSarah Grégoire is a young and enthusiastic art restorer who discovers that famous paintings are being replaced by replicas.Won "Best European Dramatic Feature" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorIris ZakiIn an Arab hair-salon in Israel, the director installs a camera over the washing-basin. As she washes their hair, she converses candidly with the salon's clients -Arabs and Jews - on Israeli politics, life and loveWon "Best European Independent Documentary" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorDennis Stein-SchomburgStarsTina MachulikSnowflakes drift through the forest. An old man, as old as the hills, lives alone in a remote hut. The winter is so cold that he can barely move his limbs. When a robin flies against his window and falls to the ground the old man first has to pause for thought. Then he pushes open the heavy front door and stomps outside to help the bird. Out in the deep snow his strength begins to fail him. But no sooner does he take the tender creature in his hands than a change comes over him. Life radiates in luminous colours and returns to the old man's hut. As it used to. Or is this just one last memory? An inventively animated rumination on love, on bidding farewell and the cycle of life.Won "Best Independent Animation" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorChristophe M. SaberStarsAdel AhdyNour GayedGarance RohrA father slaps a disobedient child. Then a bystander threatens to report him for abuse.Won "Best Independent Comedy" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorJim CummingsStarsJim CummingsKitty BarshayFrancesca I. BiasioloJimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.Won "Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Short" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorFelipe RodriguezStarsPaulino NunesJohnathan SousaMichael ReventarIllegal immigrants to the United States are kidnapped, tortured, and forced to call home for ransom money.Won "Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Feature" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorMahmod AhmadRonahi EzaddinSami HosseinA documentary made by eight children from Kobani and Shengal in refugee camps on the border of Syria and Iraq, who recorded their own life experiences and stories in the wake of brutal attacks by ISIS.Won "Best Non-European Independent Documentary" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorLaurens JansStarsFlor DecleirLudo HoogmartensWarre BorgmansThe Van Bommel Brothers is a tragicomic family drama directed by Laurens Jans.Won "Best Student Film" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorTerry McMahonStarsKerry FoxMoe DunfordPhilip JacksonWhen a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.Moe Dunford won "Best Actor" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorMartin StittStarsJack GordonRebecca CalderMax WrottesleyA female investment banker lets an out-of-work actor into her life for a romantic adventure with chilling results.Rebecca Calder won "Best Actress" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorMarc FouchardStarsAïmen DerriachiLéon GarelJean-Louis GarçonA small town in northern France, Alex, a young skinhead, enters Malik's grocery store.Coban Beutelstetter won "Best Editing" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorBarney FrydmanStarsMohamed BellahmedTino DufourLouise ManteauxWhile on a petty crime spree, Steve and Karim are about to go on an adventure that will eclipse them all. One evening, they accidentally causing a woman's death...Kassim Oliver Ahmed won "Best Cinematography" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorMélanie DelloyeStarsAdel BencherifMalorie ChéronThéo GreuilletWhen Alice sees Eric kissing another girl, she is devastated. To make matters worse, her rival runs with her in the same relay team. Alice might only be 13 years old, but she is not ready to give up her place so easily.Mélanie Delloye won "Best Director" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorSam KadiStarsRobert FordNajlaa AlsheikhMotaz MoradThe story of iconic Syrian peace activist Ghiyath Matar whose brutal torture and death at the age of 26 outraged the international community and erupted into one of the most violent uprisings in modern history.Sam Kadi won "The Ahmed Khedr Award for Excellence in Arab Filmmaking" at ÉCU 2016.
- DirectorGeraldine Moriba-MeadowsJamila PaksimaStarsVictoria Alvarez-ArangoAbigail ArmstrongCharles BrooksUntil 20 is a life-affirming documentary about facing fear and having the courage to love deeply. Imagine as a teenager you are diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease. James Ragan turns his devastating odds into a mission to live an audaciously good life.Jamila Paksima & Geraldine Moriba won "Excellence in Women’s Filmmaking" award at ÉCU 2016.