
ÉCU —The European Independent Film Festival is excited to announce its award-winning films, which will be showcased at the festival’s first edition. ÉCU 2006 proudly screened 35 films from 17 countries on March 25th and 26th, 2006, in Paris, France.
| Film Of The Festival | Radiophobia & Our Own Private Bin Laden | Julio Soto Gurpide Samira Goetschel |
| Best European Independent Dramatic Short | Single Bed | George Kouvaras |
| Best European Independent Dramatic Feature | Nachbeben | Stina Werenfels |
| Best European Independent Documentary | Radiophobia | Julio Soto Gurpide |
| Best European Independent Documentary Short | The Angel Makers | Astrid Bussink |
| Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Feature | Duck | Nic Bettauer |
| Best Non-European Independent Dramatic Short | The Christmas Tree | Najla Zaidi |
| Best Non-European Independent Documentary | Our Own Private Bin Laden | Samira Goetschel |
| Best Student Film | Final Lap | J.J. Adler |
| Best Animation Film | Horn Ok Please | Joel Simon |
| Best Experimental Film | Blue Horizon | Anthony Bennett |
| Best Director | Single Bed | George Kouvaras |
| Best Cinematography | The Giant Buddhas | Cinematographer: Peter Indergand SCS |
| Best Editing | Horn Ok Please | Editor: Joe Marcus |
| Best Actor | Red Mercury | Actor: Pete Postlewaite |
| Best Actress | Red Mercury | Actress: Stockard Channing |
| Audience Award | Gratte-Papier | Guillaume Martinez |
| Special Jury Mention | One Shot Wonder | Catalin Leescu |