2023 iCMForum Film Festival (ICMF-FF7)
by zzzorf | created - 6 months ago | updated - 6 months ago | PublicFor the 7th year the iCMForums will host it's own Film Festival
What is the festival about?
Typically the ICMF Film Festival will
-be held at the end of the year (November - December)
-have a total of up to 50 movies that should be available for viewing online, on streaming or on physical media for as much people as possible
-be open for casual viewing enjoyment by all, but also have jurors that will give out prices and watch the entire main slate + at least one other section
-consist of a main slate and the following sections: animation, art-house, Asia, Africa, documentary, "just before dawn" (genre), Europe, English-language independent, Latin America and LGBTQ.
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1. Playground (2021)
72 min | Drama
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.
Director: Laura Wandel | Stars: Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret, Elsa Laforge, Lena Girard Voss
Votes: 4,300
Main Slate - Centrepiece
2. Apples (II) (2020)
91 min | Drama
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
Director: Christos Nikou | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Votes: 5,460
Main Slate
3. Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
105 min | Drama
Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
Directors: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha | Stars: Maryam Moghadam, Alireza Sani Far, Pourya Rahimi Sam, Avin Poor Raoufi
Votes: 2,545
Main Slate
4. Great Freedom (2021)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama
In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.
Director: Sebastian Meise | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn
Votes: 7,355
Main Slate
5. The Girl from the Other Side (2022)
70 min | Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
Once upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land. Inhabited by eerie beings, the ... See full summary »
Director: Yutaro Kubo | Stars: Jun Fukuyama, Rie Takahashi
Votes: 623
Main Slate
6. The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
64 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
Mr Toomey obsessively tears paper to control his childhood monsters, but when he wakes mid-flight to Boston to find most of the other passengers disappeared, he must confront the paper nightmare which threaten to rip everything apart.
Directors: Aristotelis Maragkos, Tom Holland | Stars: Bronson Pinchot, Kate Maberly, Dean Stockwell, David Morse
Votes: 297
Main Slate
7. Nitram (2021)
112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Events leading up to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre on Tasmania in an attempt to understand why and how the atrocity occurred.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Sean Keenan, Essie Davis
Votes: 10,365
Main Slate
8. Ninjababy (2021)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Astronaut, forest-keeper, cartoonist. Young Rakel has a whole lot of other plans than becoming a mother. She would rather party, get drunk or stoned instead of sitting hours on the toilet. But she can't ignore it. Is it her or the baby?
Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke | Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Arthur Berning, Nader Khademi, Tora Christine Dietrichson
Votes: 3,270
Main Slate
9. Marygoround (2020)
80 min | Drama
Mary is just some lonely, small town grocery store worker, living a life free from sin. Struggling with menopause, she visits her doctor, who prescribes a course of hormone replacement ... See full summary »
Director: Daria Woszek | Stars: Grazyna Misiorowska, Helena Sujecka, Sylwester Piechura, Janusz Chabior
Votes: 129
Main Slate
10. Corsage (2022)
114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth Of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
Director: Marie Kreutzer | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Jeanne Werner
Votes: 9,698
Main Slate
11. Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation (2022)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Follows an investigation when the body of a caretaker is found calcined in the middle of a construction site in the gardens of Carthage, a new district where modern buildings are juxtaposed with abandoned sites and wastelands.
Director: Youssef Chebbi | Stars: Fatma Oussaifi, Mohamed Grayaâ, Rami Harrabi, Hichem Riahi
Votes: 403
Africa
12. Saloum (2021)
84 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea-Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. But something from beyond the grave awaits them there.
Director: Jean Luc Herbulot | Stars: Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Roger Sallah, Mentor Ba
Votes: 2,694
Africa
13. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (2020)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
In Lagos, Nigeria, tragedy and fate intervene as two people try to better the lives of their families.
Directors: Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri | Stars: Jude Akuwudike, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Kelechi Udegbe, Emeka Nwagbaraocha
Votes: 551
Africa
14. Night of the Kings (2020)
R | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners.
Director: Philippe Lacôte | Stars: Bakary Koné, Steve Tientcheu, Jean Cyrille Digbeu, Rasmané Ouédraogo
Votes: 2,861
Africa
15. Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus (2020)
81 min | Animation, Fantasy, Thriller
Martin is on the run because he tried to fight the system. Sara is a conceptual artist. Together they join a revolutionary commune in the countryside, with the police on their trail.
Director: Dalibor Baric | Stars: Rakan Rushaidat, Ana Vilenica, Frano Maskovic, Niksa Marinovic
Votes: 261
Animation
16. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)
108 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Director: Pierre Földes | Stars: Amaury de Crayencour, Mathilde Auneveux, Arnaud Maillard, Bruno Paviot
Votes: 925
Animation
17. Ikuta no kita (2021)
64 min | Animation
North is everywhere solitary. Here is all North. This is a record of the people I met in the North. However, my memory is fragmented and does not get the point at all. Now I'm starting to ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Yamamura
Votes: 74
Animation
18. The Summit of the Gods (2021)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
Director: Patrick Imbert | Stars: Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura
Votes: 8,710
Animation
19. Beginning (2020)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
When a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked, leader's wife Yana questions her desires as her familiar world crumbles.
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili | Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvili
Votes: 2,387
Arthouse
20. Manor House (2020)
201 min | Drama, History
A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.
Director: Cristi Puiu | Stars: Agathe Bosch, Ugo Broussot, Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Diana Sakalauskaité
Votes: 1,360
Arthouse
21. Unrest (2022)
93 min | Drama, History
In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
Director: Cyril Schäublin | Stars: Alisa Miloglyadova, Elisaveta Kriman, Olga Bushkova, Tatiana Kulminska
Votes: 1,082
Arthouse
22. From the Planet of the Humans (2021)
82 min | Documentary
A border inspection at Ventimiglia, between Italy and France, turns into a fantastical fairy tale narrated by a chorus of frogs, wherein a scientist experiments with rejuvenation techniques... See full summary »
Director: Giovanni Cioni | Stars: Ahuma, Carter, Giovanni Cioni, Emmanuel
Votes: 33
Arthouse
23. A Writer's Odyssey (2021)
130 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Six years after the abduction of his daughter, a man is hired to kill the author of a fantasy novel, but the world of the novel seems to intersect with reality.
Directors: Yang Lu, Zhuang Jie Qiong | Stars: Jiayin Lei, Mi Yang, Zijian Dong, Shengdi Wang
Votes: 4,219 | Gross: $0.16M
Asia
24. Brother's Keeper (2021)
85 min | Drama, Thriller
Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy.
Director: Ferit Karahan | Stars: Samet Yildiz, Ekin Koç, Mahir Ipek, Melih Selcuk
Votes: 3,280
Asia
25. Limbo (2021)
118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.
Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Ka-Tung Lam, Yase Liu, Mason Lee, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 3,264
Asia
26. Memory Box (2021)
102 min | Drama
The lives of three women are connected by a box that resurfaces containing notebooks, photographs and audiotapes.
Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | Stars: Rim Turki, Manal Issa, Paloma Vauthier, Clémence Sabbagh
Votes: 803
Asia
27. Aurora's Sunrise (2022)
TV-MA | 96 min | Documentary, Animation
A genocide survivor becomes a silent movie star: Aurora Mardiganian's odyssey is close to unreal. After losing her family, escaping slavery, and enduring Hollywood greed, she journeys far to tell the world of the Armenian Genocide.
Director: Inna Sahakyan | Stars: Anzhelika Hakobyan, Arpi Petrossian, Shushan Abrahamyan, Seyran Akopov
Votes: 935
Documentary
28. Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021)
PG | 69 min | Documentary, History, War
A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.
Director: Bianca Stigter | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Glenn Kurtz, Moszek Tuchendler
Votes: 649
Documentary
29. Mister Organ (2022)
96 min | Documentary
Journalist David Farrier (Tickled) is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious individual. Delving deeper he unearths a trail of court cases, royal bloodlines and ruined lives, in this true story of psychological warfare.
Director: David Farrier | Stars: David Farrier, Michael Organ
Votes: 1,123
Documentary
30. Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020)
94 min | Documentary, Crime
Made You Look is an American crime documentary about the largest art fraud in American history set in the super rich, super obsessed and super fast art world of New York.
Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Ann Freedman, M.H. Miller, Perry Amsellem, Patricia Cohen
Votes: 4,877
Documentary
31. Ali & Ava (2021)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of Ava's past relationship, and Ali's emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook, Macy Shackleton, Shaun Thomas
Votes: 3,045
English Language Independent
32. The Beta Test (2021)
Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, murder and infidelity.
Directors: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe | Stars: Jim Cummings, Virginia Newcomb, PJ McCabe, Wilky Lau
Votes: 6,313
English Language Independent
33. On the Count of Three (2021)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut and stars in On the Count of Three, a darkly comic feature about two best friends, Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott), on the last day of their lives.
Director: Jerrod Carmichael | Stars: Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, Lavell Crawford
Votes: 8,787
English Language Independent
34. Strawberry Mansion (2021)
91 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.
Directors: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney | Stars: Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Linas Phillips
Votes: 2,287
English Language Independent
35. Earwig (2021)
114 min | Drama, Horror
A 50-year-old caretaker is employed to look after 10-year-old girl. His most important task is to maintain her dentures that are made of ice and must be changed several times a day.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Paul Hilton, Romane Hemelaers, Romola Garai, Alex Lawther
Votes: 1,500
Europe
36. Rimini (2022)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The death of his mother brings Richie Bravo back from his adopted home in Italy to his teenage bedroom in Lower Austria, where Charlton Heston is still flexing his biceps and Winnetou is still alive.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Michael Thomas, Tessa Göttlicher, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Inge Maux
Votes: 2,176
Europe
37. Sick of Myself (2022)
97 min | Drama
Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.
Director: Kristoffer Borgli | Stars: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Eirik Sæther, Fanny Vaager, Sarah Francesca Brænne
Votes: 15,560
Europe
38. Mandibles (2020)
77 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When simple-minded friends Jean-Gab and Manu find a giant fly trapped in the boot of a car, they decide to train it in the hope of making a ton of cash.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair
Votes: 5,997
Europe
39. An Ideal Host (2020)
85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Liz just wants to host the perfect dinner party but an unexpected guest sends the evening into chaos, with potentially apocalyptic consequences.
Director: Robert Woods | Stars: Nadia Collins, Evan Williams, Naomi Brockwell, St John Cowcher
Votes: 315
Just Before Dawn
40. Incredible But True (2022)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier
Votes: 4,307
Just Before Dawn
41. Two Witches (2021)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror
An aging, malevolent witch intercedes in the lives of two young women.
Director: Pierre Tsigaridis | Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Kristina Klebe, Tim Fox, Dina Silva
Votes: 3,534
Just Before Dawn
42. Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021)
R | 106 min | Fantasy, Thriller
A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Kate Hudson, Jeon Jong-seo, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein
Votes: 5,540
Just Before Dawn
43. Azor (2021)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.
Director: Andreas Fontana | Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Carmen Iriondo, Juan Trench
Votes: 2,989
Latin America
44. Mamá, mamá, mamá (2020)
65 min | Drama
A veil of sadness lies over the oppressively hot summer days. Cleo dives into daydreams with her cousins, the girls share secret signs and rituals. Flowing gently, in impressionistic images... See full summary »
Director: Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière | Stars: Agustina Milstein, Chloé Cherchyk, Camila Zolezzi, Matilde Creimer Chiabrando
Votes: 298
Latin America
45. Sundown (I) (2021)
R | 82 min | Drama
Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.
Director: Michel Franco | Stars: Tim Roth, Albertine Kotting McMillan, Samuel Bottomley, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Votes: 6,713
Latin America
46. Utama (2022)
87 min | Drama
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Candelaria Quispe, Placide Ali
Votes: 2,058
Latin America
47. Joyland (2022)
126 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
Director: Saim Sadiq | Stars: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani
Votes: 6,250
LGBTQ
48. The Blue Caftan (2022)
122 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship challenged by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
Director: Maryam Touzani | Stars: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui, Mounia Lamkimel
Votes: 5,140
LGBTQ
49. Wet Sand (2021)
115 min | Drama
A village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other. One day, Eliko is found hanged. His granddaughter Moe comes to organize his funeral. She is confronted with a web of lies and the tragic consequences of Eliko’s hidden love life.
Director: Elene Naveriani | Stars: Bebe Sesitashvili, Gia Agumava, Megi Kobaladze, Giorgi Tsereteli
Votes: 705
LGBTQ
50. Wildhood (2021)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
Two brothers embark on a journey to find their birth mother after their abusive father had lied for years about her whereabouts; along the way, they reconnect with their indigenous heritage and make a new friend.
Director: Bretten Hannam | Stars: Phillip Forest Lewitski, Avery Winters-Anthony, Fabien Melanson, Zach Tovey
Votes: 1,480
LGBTQ
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