"American Courtesans" is a submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category Non-European Documentary.
This film is an intimate portrayal of modern day escorts in America and takes you into the underground world of the American Sex Worker; a world inaccessible to the general public bears its soul to a sometimes unforgiving audience.
Inspired by three marble sculptures of women (Michelangelo's Pieta, Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, and the Borghese Hermaphroditus) the film is an exploration of three very distinct women - a mother, a transgender and a nun- and their attempts to reach spiritual peace.
He's posh, tall male and white and everything he says is right.. An illustrated and painterly animated short, "Tosh" satirises the privileged world of the upper class elite, highlighting the folly of assuming a public school accent is the voice of authority. Received Pronunciation doesn't make anyone right: the floppy-haired central character is not nice or dim, he's out to win, and the plums in his mouth are rotten ...
Sueños (Dreams) is a submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category European Experimental Film.
The main character, K., is a woman living in a motionless and subdued reality. Her movements barely exist; her expressions are internalized. She only dares to express her feelings, her hopes, and her mobility through three dreams. In each dream she reaches a new level of existence, merging with nature and its elements.
Without Shepherds follows six bold Pakistanis as they struggle with their country's current crisis and try to build a different tomorrow: a cricket star starting a progressive political party, a female journalist working behind Taliban lines, an ex-mujahid seeking redemption, a trucker crossing dangerous territory to feed his family, a supermodel pushing feminism through fashion, and a subversive Sufi rocker using m ...
Stranger Road' is a drama between three very different but equally lost persons. The drama begins after a meeting via a dating on line. This triggers a series of events that eventually leads to a terrible resolution, but whom is the perpetrator? It is not even obvious whom the victim is.
Ivan is a young, shy and socially awkward man who spends his days watching old movies, and his nights working as an embalmer. He lives a lonely life, but is eager to break out of the shell he has kept himself in for so long. He makes his way to work one night, and there is when he meets the beautiful, and dead, Kara. Struck by her beauty and how young she is, he grows angry when he finds bruises and blood around he ...
A Rock Star - LEGS - finds out that his fortune has been gambled away by some people that he trusted and he now he owes money to some very bad people. While he figures out what to do, he hides in an abandoned mansion that he owns in the Hollywood Hills, and a love from his past makes it difficult to move on.
Bashful spies on the eccentric inhabitants of an elevator on a journey to an alternative state of mind where suppressed emotions break free in a beastly dance. Themes of surveillance, intimacy, and repression frame this visual exploration of the romanticism behind London's urban soul. With its bleeding colors and nostalgic feel, the video serenades the tender sensuality of shyness.
Consequent to her rape, Demet (gassal) gives birth to a baby girl. After all she has been through, she is alienated from everything on the material world. She builds herself a world between her child and her duties against God.
Set in war torn Europe of the 1940s, ‘Dancing in the Ashes’ follows the story of Edina, a young Jewish ballerina who must battle against segregation and inhumanity when she is snatched from her home and sent to a Nazi death camp. After becoming separated from her mother, Edina must draw upon her passion for dance to help give her the strength to survive, as she is called upon to perform for the camp Commandant.
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The House At The Edge Of The Galaxy" is a submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category Non-European Dramatic Short.
The House at the Edge of the Galaxy is an allegorical short film about the beauty and significance of the here and now, versus the quest for the bigger and better world perpetually beyond our grasp. This cosmic tale takes place at a desolate outpost where a lonely boy is taught by a passing Cosmonaut how ...
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 Republics 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 – 6.7 per cent of Azerbaijan’s total population- have been forced to flee their homes and l ...
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?
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.
"She will fall in love with me" is a new submission to ÉCU 2013 in the category European Documentary.
A young singer hurt by a recent breakup goes on a trip to India. Through the various encounters that fill his journey, he realizes the vanity if his concerns.
She Will Fall In Love With Me is a film about love breakup. Its is emotional, it is strong, it is funny and self-derisory. It is a musical road trip to Ind ...
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...
