1956 Dun Eidyn International Movie Festival

[Saaremaa]

Dun Eidyn
1956
:: International Movie Festival ::
Held from February 12th through March 17th
Open to All Filmmakers & Culture Ministries

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In an effort to promote culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Cumbria invites the filmmakers and culture ministries of the world to join together and present the masterpieces each nation has produced in the last 12 months so that we can all create a new level of cultural dialogue between us. The main value of the Dun Eidyn International Movie Festival is the artistic spirit and the freedom of speech. Through it, we hope that this festival gives chances to the world's best workers in the movie industry to show their spirits without any fear of censorship and limitation.

Award Categories: Viridian Award (Best Picture) ; Public Opinion Prize (Best Picture Determined by Guests) ; Feature Documentary ; Feature Animation ; Feature Short Film ; Best Actor ; Best Actress


Entry Submission Template:

FEATURE TITLE
Two Worlds

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Grant Hendry

FEATURE CAST
Fionntan MacFarlane, Ewen MacKinley, Ronalda MacArthur

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Cumbrian descended Loagin Euan (Fionntan MacFarlane) has grown up in the conservative and highly nationalistic Cumbric community of Maseru, being taught on how to act, how to speak and how to live as a proper Cumbrian. He gets a chance that many Cumbrians living in Loago are dreaming of: to study at the Dun Eidyn Polytechnic. After being told what to expect in Cumbria proper by his father (Ewen MacKinley), young Euan is completely disappointed when he sees the reality. The Cumbrians that his father told him about have long died, as the image he had was created by his grandfather who migrated from Dun Eidyn to Maseru. The old bleak and grey cities have been transformed into new shiny ones, commercial advertising illuminating the cities day and night, cars agglomerated on the streets, continuous sounds and noises and he never saw of heard of in Maseru are shocking him at first. But after a few weeks, after he meets Lillias (Ronalda MacArthur) he starts to leave behind the life in Loago and to love the realities of Cumbria. Problems hit him after an absurd error was done by the Secretariat of the Polytechnic, which mistakes him with another Euan who had the same surname as him and he has to move back to Loago. Can he adapt back to his old life in Loago, or will he be trapped in a limbo, now knowing where is place is?

OOC: 1952/2012's and 1953/2013 festivals were huge successes and I hope that we can bring them back. It's time to have some culture too, not only barbarous war and destruction.

 

[Saaremaa]

Cumbrian Submission:

FEATURE TITLE
Two Worlds

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Grant Hendry

FEATURE CAST
Fionntan MacFarlane, Ewen MacKinley, Ronalda MacArthur

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Cumbrian descended Loagin Euan (Fionntan MacFarlane) has grown up in the conservative and highly nationalistic Cumbric community of Maseru, being taught on how to act, how to speak and how to live as a proper Cumbrian. He gets a chance that many Cumbrians living in Loago are dreaming of: to study at the Dun Eidyn Polytechnic. After being told what to expect in Cumbria proper by his father (Ewen MacKinley), young Euan is completely disappointed when he sees the reality. The Cumbrians that his father told him about have long died, as the image he had was created by his grandfather who migrated from Dun Eidyn to Maseru. The old bleak and grey cities have been transformed into new shiny ones, commercial advertising illuminating the cities day and night, cars agglomerated on the streets, continuous sounds and noises and he never saw of heard of in Maseru are shocking him at first. But after a few weeks, after he meets Lillias (Ronalda MacArthur) he starts to leave behind the life in Loago and to love the realities of Cumbria. Problems hit him after an absurd error was done by the Secretariat of the Polytechnic, which mistakes him with another Euan who had the same surname as him and he has to move back to Loago. Can he adapt back to his old life in Loago, or will he be trapped in a limbo, now knowing where is place is?


FEATURE TITLE
Seeing the North, returning to the South (Documentary)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Fearchar MacDaniel

FEATURE CAST
Dakarai Drest

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The documentary follows the life of Dakarai Drest, the first Fante man to come from Loago to Cumbria to study medicine in 1943. He hailed from the family of a chief in the Tribal Trust Lands of South-Eastern Loago and was provided the funds to come to Dun Eidyn to study. The documentary tells his story after graduation when he started working in the Dun Glas Institute of Pharmacy and became involved in the political schemes of the Democratic Liberal Party. He then returned to Loago to begin his activism for home rule and majority rule, his dream being achieved in 1954, but sadly he failed to see it done as he died of malaria in 1951.


FEATURE TITLE
Textiles (Animation)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Sachairi MacAngus

FEATURE CAST
Findlay Monroe, Arran Mag Raith, Maura MacCallum

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The animated movie presents the attempts of Snathaid (voiced by Findlay Monroe), a bossy needle with a bad attitude, together with his lackey, Bhruis, a dim-witted but kind brush (voiced by Arran Mag Raith) to sew their biggest creation as of yet... a parkas (voiced by Maura MacCallum).

 

[Merioneth]

Veniasufian Entry

FEATURE TITLE
Poise and Rationality

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Lawrence Eddison

FEATURE CAST
Michael McVernon, Ellis Gwen, Thierry Oberon

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
The daughter of a wealthy Sideran businessman Antonia Beaumont(Ellis Gwen) has always been brought up to have the highest expectations in anything but when she falls in love with her new servant Tom(Michael McVernon) everything changes. As she leads a secret affair with Tom her father(Thierry Oberon) is busy trying to marry her off to another man.On the eve of the wedding they run away but it isn't long before Antonia's father calls the police with the law on their tails Antonia runs away in the night leaving Tom a note the search is called off and Antonia marries her husband. Years later after years of trying to be in love Antonia leaves her husband and sets out to search for tom going on a long journey she goes everywhere searching for him until she goes home to Sidera and finds his grave.After discovering he was murdered and learning it was her father Antonia sets out on a mission for revenge travelling the globe to find her father who disowned her when she divorced. It all ends in pain when both of them are killed as her fathers greatest treasure his oil fields are set alight killing them both and ending the Beaumont dynasty forever.

FEATURE TITLE
The House of Sierra-Vignetta: A legacy(Documentary)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Marcus Ruckovich

FEATURE CAST
Leon Polperra

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:
Leon Polperra takes us on a journey to learn about the man who is credited with building modern Veniasufia from his rise to his fall he looks at everything from the adultery and the incest to the mass murder of Gaelic's in Georgetown he tells us how this man made Veniasufia what it is today and how his rain still ended in tears when he died in 1784 and how his succesors have continued to make the patriots go wild and create an egalitarian society for all.

 

[Great Engellex]

FEATURE TITLE
Conradin of Tamaris

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Hereward P. Grueck

FEATURE CAST
Anna Ursei, Girrard Vermandois, Argante d'Este

FEATURE DESCRIPTION:

In the late 16th century the Duchy of Cigropontis was the centre of the greatest trade and labouring of slaves within the Levant. A great revolt, sparked by the execution of several hundreds of slaves by order of the Duchessa Berengaria of Cigropontis, threatened to topple in a bloody spectacle the Ducal family in Carceris, the once ducal capital. Concerned with the spread of anarchy and destruction of civilised towns and cities at the hands of the once chained unwashed masses – Pagans, Jews, Eastern Christians, the Senate of the Republic of Tortessa deployed Conradin of Tamaris with a small mercenary army to bring order back to the people of Cigropontis. Conradin and his army land in Zareptta, heroically sparing the citizens of the city the horrors and carnage that was soon to be brought upon them by the barbarous slaves that attack just as Conradin reaches the city. Zareptta is saved, and the Tortessan general and his army move forward, liberating the cities of Codonitsa and Sissia from the ruthless slaves, and returning the ruling families to their positions of power. Conradin arrives in Carceris, and he and his army engage in the bloodiest battle of the short war, culminating in an epic battle of physical strength and wit as Conradin of Tamaris valiantly takes down the bloody chief of slaves, Alexius the Dishonourable.

Conradin, with God on his side, strikes down the slave revolt and protects the people of Carceris from their impending massacre. As the victory swiftly sweeps the city and surrounding country, Duchessa Berengaria of Cigropontis is nobly freed from the prison of her ducal palace, where she leanrs and accepts that the Republic of Tortessa, through their general – Conradin of Tamaris, has found it necessary to unseat the ducal family and introduce a new authority through a Senate in Zareptta. The film theatrically depicts the heroic events that gave birth to the Tiburan Republic of Zareptta, where to this day Conradin is a celebrated hero titled Conradin the Conqueror of Godless Slaves.

 

[Holy Frankish Empire]

FEATURE TITLE[/B][/SIZE]
Red Heart (Drama)

FEATURE DIRECTOR
[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR]Andre Louampi

FEATURE CAST
Collette Antier, Lillie Prinois, Pierre Grinot

FEATURE DESCRIPTION: ] Set in 1907, Marie is a prostitute, dying of disease at age 45. She reflects on her life starting with her childhood in which she was abandoned and the struggle to be one of Changy's most expensive courtesans. Her affairs ranged from diplomats, generals, captains of industry, to royalty. Based on the 1889 scandal of the Ducal Household, Red Heart tells Marie's story through the lens of an unrepentant courtesan who despite the hardships; knows and enjoyed life better than anyone. The film switches between the present and past but does so gracefully. The film ends with Marie's death- raw and uncompromising. The film was initially banned for the death scene in Bourgogne but after review, this film has been approved for release.

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[Pelasgia]

FEATURE TITLE
Christ's Temptation

FEATURE DIRECTOR
Timotheos Kleanthidis

FEATURE CAST
Athina Sireotissa, Eleni Loukiani, Plithon Eitheilyios, Paschalis Tambakis, Ambrosios Politis, Ioannis Mavros

FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Highly controversial and restricted in its country of origin, Christ's Temptation (Ὁ Πειρασμὸς τοῦ Χριστοῦ) is a novel by the famous Pelasgian left wing novelist, theatrical writer, poet and philosopher Nikodimos Kantadakis, currently residing in Bourgogne. This movie, by the same name, is an adaptation of the book for cinema audiences. Christ's Temptation follows the hypothetical love and affair between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, from its beginning when Christ first met her, to the end when she is among those who witness Christ's crucifixion. Christ first meets Mary Magdalene as in traditional religious texts, forgiving the prostitute's sins. Unlike Christian tradition however, Jesus grows comes to love her more and more, meeting with her privately, with their love for one another becoming increasingly apparent. As the time for his death grows near, Christ starts to question whether he truly should die or whether he could live on the Earth, alongside the woman who has earned his heart. He even tries to leave, to escape into the desert, not being able to be torn between his lov and God's plan for him. In the end, he stumbles upon a wounded, lone Jewish zealot in the desert. After talking to the zealot, who is about to die after fighting for what he believes in, he is convinced to return to Jerusalem, though he openly states that he deslikes God's plan. In the movie's most powerful scene, he proclaims that if he was merely put on the Earth so as to be a pawn and he cannot even have the right to love, he might as well die. The movie examines motives such as love, individual strength and will over collective power and goals, authority and choices, religion and sexuality, social norms on relationships, people's internal motivations and women's place in a society. Considered by many as an allegory for the current Propontine nationalist regime's authoritarism, which, according to Kardakis, comes in contrast with the very Christian values it claims to be promoting, the film has drawn severe criticism from Propontine authorities, with many calling for its ban.