Across the globe an estimated 27 million people have been internally displaced by conflict. One such conflict, on Europe's doorstep, is between the former Soviet states of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Since the crisis began some 20 years ago, many thousands have been killed but many more people, some half a million - a staggering 20% of Azerbaijan's total population - have been forced to flee their homes and live like ...
The middle-aged and skeptical writer, Sebastian, is sent a script. When he opens it he realizes he is the lead character. Trying to prove the script wrong he makes several attempts to cheat it - with no luck. When he starts to skip pages in the script he encounters alternate versions of himself. Now he has to follow the script to see if it will restore order. But will it?
HATCH follows two couples and the wrenching decisions they each must make on a wintry Vienna night. Milo and Biljana, illegal immigrants seeking opportunity, must acknowledge that they cannot raise their newborn and hope to achieve their own youthful dreams at the same time. Across town, Thomas and Andreas, an older and more stable couple desperately want to welcome a child into their lives. Decisions borne of d ...
A boy and his mum live on an isolated farm. One day a Crow man crashes into their world. Mask characters combine with animation in this experimental short narrative film.
With the Armistice of 1943, Michele, a young italian soldier begins his homecoming journey.The state of forced isolation in primitive, unspoiled environments leads 'the deserter' towards an intimate and profound relationship with the primordial essence of life. Within a changing and surreal landscape, favorable and adverse at the same time, Michele covers the span of human existence through his apparently accidental ...
The Test of Freedom: Muslim Americans and the Struggle Against Prejudice
Facing growing hysteria and bias, US Muslims live out their faith and confront discrimination in ways that uplift those around them. Rejecting portrayals as the villain or the victim, they set forward their own narratives about the role of Islam in an increasingly diverse and divided America.
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
Roundabout American is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category Non-European Dramatic Feature.
Alex Montrieux is lonely. When he meets an American girl online, and the two fall in e-love, it's only natural that he comes for a month-long visit. But minutes after he lands, the young lady changes her mind and dumps him at a rundown suburban motel. Faced with the prospect of returning home, Alex decides to stay a ...
Privacy is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category Non-European Dramatic Feature.
Mark, a tech savvy college student, creates a cutting edge spyware app that allows him to remote view any cell phone in New York City. As he begins to invade the privacy of hundreds of New Yorkers remotely via the 'Privacy App' he spots a beautiful and mysterious girl, named Alexis whom he begins to spy on. She appears to be lo ...
Potwór is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category European Dramatic Short.
Little Peter escapes the orphanage after he gets beaten up badly by kids. An adventure starts which will change his life forever.
Pandemos is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category European Experimental Film.
A girl thinks she's like Aphrodite and that with her beauty she can cure the damned.
Love's Improvisation is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category Non-European Dramatic Feature.
This film is an original, contemporary feature that takes us through the ups and downs of a relationship, as Mira and Omar meet, fall in love, bond, and settle down in their marriage – their relationship ruled by Mira’s concept of love as dependent on meditation and storytelling, and her refusal to be governed b ...
GBH is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category European Dramatic Feature.
London 2011. As the worst riots the capital has seen in decades rage, a lone wolf cop must chose between his friends and his duty as two worlds collide in this violent, uncomprmising crime epic in the tradition of The Long Good Friday and The Sweeney.
"Buumes" is ne submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category European Short. Encounters in the hallway of a Swiss housing estate lead to a neighbourly invitation. What starts out as a cosy evening takes an unexpected ending. It gets late, very late, but the guests -- Mr. and Mrs. Baumann or "Buumes" -- remain seated on the sofa in Stettlers' living room and are still there the next morning...
An intense personal adventure with universal themes that just happens to feature on of 20th-century music's greatest icons, 'My Father and The Man In Black' presents the untold story of 'bad boy' Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for clues to his father's suicide in the shadow of a legend. Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul
Will humans ever evolve again?
Sophie sees beyond appearances. Here life is complex. The relationship with the people around here is nonexistent.
It is during a cold night of winter that here life changes drastically.
The extraordinary meeting with a superior being unleashed an endless pursuit that will create the myth of Homo Sapiens Cyborg.
Director Biography (English): Stefano Mosimann was born in Sorengo, Swi ...
Believing that he killed his daughter instead of saving her from kidnappers, Zhang Li is dismantled. He finds himself lured to China seeking solace in pain and blood at Paradise Hotel where every carnal and beastly desire is satiated. With a savage boss, the terrifying Burnt Man at the helm of the underground brothel, no perversion is turned away.
Fragment from my little cartoon.
Watch the trailer of 'I am Tom Moody'. A new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the Student Film Category. Enjoy!
I Am Tom Moody is a film about the creative struggle, it is about self-doubt, the source of these doubts and overcoming our past. We meet tom Moody in his first moment on stage, struggling to open his mouth and sing. Plunged into his subconscious mind we discover two voices, battling to narrate the viewer throug ...
