Award Winners – ÉCU 2014
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The European Film Festival, Europe’s premier event for independent cinema, announces its 24 award-winners for 2014.
After screening, 85 films from 32 countries over the past 3 days it all comes down to one moment: the Award Ceremony. Films competed across 15 categories and were judged according to their quality, creativity, and independent spirit in both form and content. Judged by a panel of internationally acclaimed industry experts, jurors found it difficult to choose this year’s highest honor Best European Independent Film 2014″. ÉCU is proud to present our 2014 Award Winners:
| Best European Independent Film 2014 | 216 Months (France) | Valentin Potier, Frédéric Potier |
| Best European Independent Dramatic Short | Blind Squad (Romania) | Vlad Fenesan |
| Best European Independent Dramatic Feature | The Enemy Within (Greece) | Yorgos Tsemberopoulos |
| Best European Independent Documentary | Sickfuckpeople (Austria) | Juri Rechinsky |
| Best European Independent Animation | Drag Me (Greece) | Nikos Kellis |
| Best European Independent Experimental Film | Second Wind (Russia) | Sergey Tsyss |
| Best European Independent Music Video | Sandra Kolstad – Run Away (Norway) | Yenni Lee |
| Best European Independent Comedy | Great (Germany) | Andreas Henn |
| Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Short | Humor (Israel) | Tal Zagreba |
| Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Feature | The Preacher’s Daughter (USA) | Michelle Mower |
| Best Non-European Independent Documentary | Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution (USA) | Matthew VanDyke |
| Best Student Film | Deserted (Israel) | Yoav Hornung |
| Best Short Script | Before The Bomb (Iran) | Tannaz Hazemi and James Grimaldi |
| Best Feature Script | Yellow Dragon and the Red Fox (UK) | Anthony Etherington |
| Best Actor | Say Nothing (UK) | Ed Stoppard |
| Best Actress | Chains of Love (Germany) | Lotta Doll |
| Best Editing | My Past Life (Sweden) | Sebastian Lindblad |
| Best Cinematography | Portraits of Mistresses (France) | Jean-François Hensgens |
| Best Director | Jiminy (France) | Arthur Molard |
| Special Jury Mention | Still Got Lives (Germany) | Jan-Gerrit Seyler |
| Closed Box (Italy) | Riccardo Salvetti, Gianfranco Boattini | |
| You Can’t Write a Letter (France) | Guillaume Levil | |
| Audience Award | Battlecock!(UK) | Ben Mallaby |
| The Ahmed Khedr Award for Excellence in Arab Filmmaking | 7 Hours (Lebanon) | Farah Alhashim |