iCMForum’s Favourite Movie From Every County
With my further ventures into cinema, especially my world travels within it, I keep a handful of lists with one of my personal favourites being my Favourite Movie from Every Country. This list does exactly what it says, it contains my favourite movie from every country I have seen a movie from. For a while now I have been thinking of developing one for the iCMForum but hadn't pulled the trigger until now. My final motivation came from Lakigigar who suggested it as a potentiall poll for 2022 and while I think it is an idea that might be worth doing/produce a more thourough list than this one I finally got the urge to produce this one.
How was list developed?
since 2016 the forum has been producing lists developed through polls for various regions around the world. From these lists I pulled the best placed movie from each country thus being our favourite movie from said country. For those countries that we have yet to do a poll for (such as USA) I used the annual Favourite Movies poll as a place holder for now. My plan is that when we do new region polls this list will be updated with the new results.
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American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Congo
Djibouti
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Falkland Islands
Fiji
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Gibraltor
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guyana
Honduras
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Liechtenstein
Macao
Malawi
Maldives
Malta
Marshall Island
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Namibia
Narau
New Caledonia
Nicaragua
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Pitcairn Islands
Qatar
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Kitts & Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent & Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé & Príncipe
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Tajikistan
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Uzbekistan
Vatican City
Wallis & Futuna
How was list developed?
since 2016 the forum has been producing lists developed through polls for various regions around the world. From these lists I pulled the best placed movie from each country thus being our favourite movie from said country. For those countries that we have yet to do a poll for (such as USA) I used the annual Favourite Movies poll as a place holder for now. My plan is that when we do new region polls this list will be updated with the new results.
No Entry:
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bonaire
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Congo
Djibouti
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Eswatini
Falkland Islands
Fiji
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon
Gambia
Gibraltor
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guyana
Honduras
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Liechtenstein
Macao
Malawi
Maldives
Malta
Marshall Island
Mauritius
Micronesia
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Namibia
Narau
New Caledonia
Nicaragua
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Pitcairn Islands
Qatar
Saint Barthelemy
Saint Kitts & Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent & Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé & Príncipe
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
Tajikistan
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Turks & Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Uzbekistan
Vatican City
Wallis & Futuna
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- DirectorSiddiq BarmakStarsMarina GolbahariZubaida SaharKhwaja NaderAfter the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.Afghanistan
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iCM Forum's Favorite South Asian Movies (2020) - DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsTristan HalilajSindi LacejRefet AbaziAn Albanian family is torn apart by a murder, resulting in a blood feud that makes eldest son Nik a prime target and forces his sister, eldest daughter Rudina, to leave school in order to take over the family business.Albania
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.Algeria
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorSarah MaldororStarsElisa AndradeDomingos de OliveiraJean M'VondoA man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.Angola
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorJuan José CampanellaStarsRicardo DarínSoledad VillamilPablo RagoA retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.Argentina
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorArtavazd PeleshianThe last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.Armenia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJenny AgutterDavid GulpililLuc RoegTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.Australia
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iCM Forum's Favorite Movies from Oceania (2018) - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.Austria
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iCM Forum's Favourite German Films (2018) - DirectorBoris BarnetSamad MardanovStarsYelena KuzminaLev SverdlinNikolay KryuchkovTwo best friends shipwreck on an island in the Caspian Sea and fall in love with the same woman while helping the villagers of their new home.Azerbaijan
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iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorBassam Al-ThawadiStarsFatima AbdulrahimAli Al-GurairHamad Al-MeerThe plot revolves around Fatima, who is troubled by a vision of a mysterious person since her childhood. After 22 years of psychological problems, she wants to confront the vision. The film follows her search for answers where she discovers a connection between the A'ali burial mounds and the haunting vision. It is among the ominous burial mounds that the plot unfolds, and by chance brings about a meeting of Fatima and her ex-husband with the other main characters of the film. They are rebellious teenagers Khalid and Amin, who are involved in drugs, and Khalid's older brother Ahmed, who is trying to stop them throwing their lives away. This is not just a thriller, but a story of a group of individuals finding themselves in a dark situation with a mysterious presence that is trying to make them confront their problems.Bahrain
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iCM Forum's Favorite Middle East Movies (2018) - DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsRosy SamadKabori SarwarRawshan ZamilAfter their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.Bangladesh
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iCM Forum's Favorite South Asian Movies (2020) - DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.Belarus
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iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorRémy BelvauxAndré BonzelBenoît PoelvoordeStarsBenoît PoelvoordeJacqueline Poelvoorde-PappaertNelly PappaertA film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routine. But complications set in when the film crew lose their objectivity and begin lending a hand.Belgium
#2
iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from the Benelux (2016) - DirectorSylvestre AmoussouStarsStéphane RouxEriq EbouaneySylvestre AmoussouWhen Olivier and Pauline, a French engineer and a French teacher, can not live decently in their own country any longer, they decide to emigrate to the United States of Africa.Benin
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorKhyentse NorbuStarsTshewang DendupGup Kado DubaDasho KadoThe two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to hitchhike through the beautiful wild countryside of Bhutan to reach his goal. He shares the road with a monk, an apple seller, a papermaker and his beautiful young daughter, Sonam. Throughout the journey, the perceptive yet mischievous monk relates the story of Tashi. It is a mystical fable of lust, jealousy and murder, that holds up a mirror to the restless Dondup, and his blossoming attraction to the innocent Sonam. The cataclysmic conclusion of the monk's tale leaves Dondup with a dilemma--is the grass truly greener on the other side?Bhutan
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iCM Forum's Favorite South Asian Movies (2020) - DirectorJorge SanjinésStarsMarcelino YanahuayaBenedicta MendozaVicente Verneros SalinasThe reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.Bolivia
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.Bosnia and Herzegovina
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorJamie UysStarsN!xauMarius WeyersSandra PrinslooA comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.Botswana
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2008) - DirectorFernando MeirellesKátia LundStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoMatheus NachtergaeleIn the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.Brazil
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorKonrad WolfStarsSasha KrusharskaJürgen FrohriepErik S. KleinThe tragic love of a Jewish girl and a Nazi officer is presented as a symbol of human purity defeated by fascism and racial prejudice.Bulgaria
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorIdrissa OuedraogoStarsFatimata SangaNoufou OuédraogoRoukietou BarryA small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.#23
iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorLéonce NgaboStarsJoseph KumbelaMarie BunelAoua SangareGito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his country. Gito is tested further by the alliance between his French girlfriend and his old sweetheart who join forces to teach Gito an unforgettable lesson.Burundi
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorRithy PanhStarsRandal DoucJean-Baptiste PhouRithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.Cambodia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from South-East Asia (2018) - DirectorJean-Pierre Dikongue-PipaStarsPhilippe AbiaArlette Din BeliGisèle Dikongue-PipaNgando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the tradition. Ndomé; is pregnant and bears his child. According to the village tradition, she must take a husband, at least one who can afford to pay the dowry. The villagers decide that Ndomé; should marry Ngando's uncle, who has already three sterile wives. In despair, the young man kidnaps his daughter upon the day of the traditional feast. An African Romeo and Juliet story.Cameroon
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.Canada
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iCM Forum's Favourite Canadian Films (2017) - DirectorBassek Ba KobhioDidier OuenangareStarsEriq EbouaneyNadège Beausson-DiagneSonia ZembourouA film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what to call that 'other.' The subtitles in the film use the familiar word 'pygmies,' a relatively pejorative European term; the Bantu or villagers' expression for the same group, Babingas, carries similar negative connotations. These highly specialized, tropical rain forest hunter-gatherers should perhaps be called by their own ethnonym, Aka, MoAka (sing.) and BaAka (pl.)Central African Republic
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorMahamat-Saleh HarounStarsAhidjo Mahamat MoussaHamza Moctar AguidZara HarounTahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.Chad
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsGaspar GalazLautaro NúñezLuís HenríquezA documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.Chile
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiJingwu MaSaifei HeChina in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.China
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iCM Forum's Favorite Chinese Movies (2017) - DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsLeidy María 'Lady' TabaresMarta CorreaMileider Gil13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.Colombia
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorHachimiya AhamadaThis movie-letter is for my father who had this dream: me I my sisters living in Comoros. It never happens. This movie-letter is also a road-movie all around the four comorian islands.Comoros
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorKarin WilliamsStarsJon JonassenTara KauvaiHow a South Pacific love song touched hearts around the world.Cook Islands
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iCM Forum's Favorite Movies from Oceania (2018) - DirectorHernán JiménezStarsCarlos Luis ZamoraCarol SanabriaAnabelle UlloaGabo and Maga are an old couple who have lived together all their life and depend emotionally on each other completely. Delia, their grand-daughter, was brought up by them. The three of them live together harmoniously in a cosy atmosphere. At the age of 27, she already has a promising career in a big company. Everything is turned upside down with Maga's sudden death just at the moment when Delia is assigned a very responsible task, the management of a major project which may launch her carer or bring it to an inglorious end. And what's more to it, in the opening of the testament it turns out that Maga had expressed the wish that her ashes be dispersed in the Caribbean. Delia is facing a serious dilemma, as in her grand-father's life there is nothing else now but the accomplishment of his companion's last wish at a time when Delia can not abandon her professional commitment for a trip to the Caribbean.Costa Rica
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsJean CarmetJacques DufilhoCatherine RouvelDuring World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.Côte d’Ivoire
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies - DirectorNikola TanhoferStarsBoris BuzancicDjurdja IvezicAntun VrdoljakA bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.Croatia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorTomás Gutiérrez AleaStarsSergio CorrieriDaisy GranadosEslinda NúñezA Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.Cuba
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorYannis EconomidesStarsStathis StamoulakatosVangelis MourikisMaria KallimaniFollowing his father's death, Nikos leaves the provinces to work in Athens guarding his brutish uncle's dogs. Nikos finds the dynamic of his relationship with his uncle changing when his uncle's wife draws closer to him.Cyprus
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?Czech Republic
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iCM Forum's Favourite Central European Films (2016) - DirectorOrlando von EinsiedelStarsAndré BaumaEmmanuel de MerodeMélanie GoubyA team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.Democratic Republic of the Congo
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.Denmark
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iCM Forum's Favorite Nordic movies (2016) - DirectorPierre DeschampsStarsJerry 'Maka West'Juxtaposed to the hustle and bustle of city life on the diminutive Caribbean island of Dominica, Jerry Maka West works his garden in the island's lush interior, his Zion, growing and preparing his food just as his grandparents once taught him. Jerry is Nom Tèw, Man of the Soil.Dominica
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorÁngel MuñizStarsLuisito MartíCaridad RaveloRaúl CarbonellThe humble and hardworking Orodoto Balbuena finally gets an opportunity of realizing his lifelong dream of reaching New York and living the "American Dream", but soon finds out that things aren't as pretty as he thought.Dominican Republic
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorSebastián CorderoStarsCarlos ValenciaMarco BustosCristina DávilaThe world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?Ecuador
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsFarid ShawqiHind RustumYoussef ChahineA newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.Egypt
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsLembit UlfsakElmo NüganenGiorgi NakashidzeIn 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him in.Estonia
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iCM Forum's 1001 Favourite Movies (2021) - DirectorZeresenay MehariStarsMeron GetnetTizita HagereAbel AbebeA young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.Ethiopia
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorHeidrik á HeygumStarsHeidrik á HeygumBrynjolfur á HeygumBjarni LamhaugeWaste youth - but not with the wrong cigarette brand. Even on the Faroes, being young is an issue of style and distinction. And the difference between "Kings" and "Prince" is the difference between provincial backwaters and the big, wide world.Faroe Islands
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iCM Forum's Favorite Nordic movies (2016) - DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsKati OutinenElina SaloEsko NikkariA woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.Finland
#16
iCM Forum's Favorite Nordic movies (2016) - DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsSimone SignoretVéra ClouzotPaul MeurisseThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.France
#1
iCM Forum's Favourite French Films (2018) - DirectorMikhail KalatozovStory of distant mountainous region in Georgia that depicts folklore, lifestyle and daily routines of Svani people, focuses on the scarcity of salt in Svaneti region. Rich with documentary value, the movie also served for Soviet propaganda.Georgia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.Germany
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iCM Forum's Favourite German Films (2018) - DirectorKwaw AnsahStarsKofi BucknorIan CollierAnima MisaThe story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the district commissioner. In the process, he abandons his African heritage and all that has real meaning to him.Ghana
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.Greece
#3
iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorJacob GrønlykkeStarsRasmus LyberthVivi NielsenNiels PlatowWhen the humiliation and grief of his eldest son's shooting rampage and subsequent suicide threatens to pull him under, a brokenhearted father (Rasmus Lyberth) leaves his family and tight-knit community and heads into Greenland's bleak landscape. As he journeys forth on an antiquated dogsled with no destination, he eventually finds solace -- and the soul he lost long ago -- in the form of a mystical hermit (Anda Kristiansen).Greenland
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iCM Forum's Favorite Nordic movies (2016) - DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroyMaría TelónManuel AntúnOn the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.Guatemala
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorDavid AchkarStarsDavid AchkarMarof AchkarFilmmaker David Achkar searches for his father, Marof Achkar, who was sent to the notorious Camp Boiro prison in 1969 for treason.Guinea
#35
iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorFlora GomesStarsMaysa MartaPedro DiasAntonio Simao MendesA beautiful, intelligent and flirtatious young girl, Yonta, is secretly in love with a friend of her parents, Vicente, a hero of the war of independence. Vicente is unaware of her passion as she is of the love of a young man who sends her anonymous love letters.Guinea-Bissau
#65
iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorRaoul PeckStarsJennifer ZubarToto BissainthePatrick RameauHaiti during papa Doc's reign: not a fun place!Haiti
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungSiu Ping-LamTwo neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.Hong Kong
#1
iCM Forum's Favorite Chinese Movies (2017) - DirectorBéla TarrÁgnes HranitzkyStarsLars RudolphPeter FitzHanna SchygullaA naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.Hungary
#5
iCM Forum's Favourite Central European Films (2016) - DirectorÓsvaldur KnudsenStarsAlan BoucherA short documentary showing the formation of an island from lava and other volcanic activity.Iceland
#146
iCM Forum's Favorite Nordic movies (2016) - DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.India
#1
iCM Forum's Favorite South Asian Movies (2020) - DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisAnanda GeorgeRay SahetapyA S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.Indonesia
#8
iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from South-East Asia (2018) - DirectorAsghar FarhadiStarsPayman MaadiLeila HatamiSareh BayatA married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.Iran
#1
iCM Forum's Favorite Middle East Movies (2018) - DirectorMohamed Al DaradjiStarsShazada HusseinYasser TalibBashir Al MajidA willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.Iraq
#97
iCM Forum's Favorite Middle East Movies (2018) - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisPete PostlethwaiteAlison CrosbieAn Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.Ireland
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iCM Forum's 1001 Favourite Movies (2021) - DirectorAri FolmanStarsAri FolmanRon Ben-YishaiRonny DayagAn Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.Israel
#8
iCM Forum's Favorite Middle East Movies (2018) - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.Italy
#1
iCM Forum's Favorite Italian Movies (2020) - DirectorPerry HenzellStarsJimmy CliffJanet BartleyCarl BradshawWishing to become a successful reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.Jamaica
#52
iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsEiji OkadaKyôko KishidaKôji MitsuiAn entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.Japan
#1
iCM Forum's Favourite Japanese Movies (2021) - DirectorNaji Abu NowarStarsJacir Eid Al-HwietatHussein Salameh Al-SweilhiyeenHassan Mutlag Al-MaraiyehIn the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.Jordan
#51
iCM Forum's Favorite Middle East Movies (2018) - DirectorAmanzhol AituarovStarsNurzhuman IkhtymbaevSabira KumushaliyevaT. KuanyshevOn her way to the Promised Land, a blind girl meets a gangster and they fall in love. Their love makes a miracle: the girl regains her sight.Kazakhstan
#162
iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorHawa EssumanTom TykwerStarsSamson OdhiamboLeila Dayan OpouKrysteen SavaneA Kenyan boy goes on a strange journey to return his father's soul.Kenya
#87
iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies - DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsBolot BeyshenalievNatalya ArinbasarovaIdris NogajbayevSoviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the countrymen are to help him, and even to let their children go and "sleep" at school instead of giving a hand. There is only, Altynai, an orphan, to seem fascinated by the teacher and his knowledge.Kyrgyzstan
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iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorKim MordauntStarsSitthiphon DisamoeLoungnam KaosainamSuthep Po-ngamLaos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.Laos
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iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from South-East Asia (2018) - DirectorHerz FrankA 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. They all sit in a dark theater. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces.Latvia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Russian Movies (2016) - DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.Lebanon
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iCM Forum's Favorite Middle East Movies (2018) - DirectorAndrew MudgeStarsZenzo NgqobeNozipho NkelembaLebohang NtsaneA young man reluctantly embarks on a journey to his ancestral land of Lesotho to bury his estranged father, and finds himself drawn to the mystical beauty and hardships of the people and the land he had forgotten.Lesotho
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsChristophe MinieDaisy Victoria VandyJoseph DuoA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.Liberia
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorMoustapha AkkadStarsAnthony QuinnIrene PapasMichael AnsaraThis epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.Libya
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorSharunas BartasStarsYekaterina GolubevaRimma LatypovaArunas SakalauskasIn Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the recurrent dull and poorly kept house façads could well be taken as a comparative symbol). In addition, everyone is so absorbed by his or her own distress and hardly capable of bothering about the anguish of the others. The three days end with a pervasive lack of contact.Lithuania
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iCM Forum's 1001 Favourite Movies (2021) - DirectorGovinda Van MaeleStarsVicky KriepsFrederick LauMarco LorenziniA surrealist rural noir about a German thief who flees to a small Luxembourg village only to discover that the locals have secrets of their own.Luxembourg
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iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from the Benelux - DirectorMarie Clémence Andriamonta-PaesCesar PaesStarsAmbarazafyAvimareArthur BesyVenerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.Madagascar
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKang-sheng LeeShiang-chyi ChenNorman AtunA day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.Malaysia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from South-East Asia (2018) - DirectorSouleymane CisséStarsIssiaka KaneAoua SangareNiamanto SanogoA young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.Mali
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorEuzhan PalcyStarsGarry CadenatDarling LégitimusDouta SeckSet in 1931, Sugar Cane Alley paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rules, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic boy.Martinique
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsIbrahim AhmedAbel JafriToulou KikiA cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.Mauritania
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAlfonso MejíaRoberto CoboEstela IndaA group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.Mexico
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iCM Forum's Favorite Latin American and Caribbean Movies (2016) - DirectorIgor CobileanskiStarsIgor BabiacSergiu VolocEla IonescuThe Unsaved is a drama about about a Sancho Panza and not a Don Quijote. It's about the every day's non-hero facing circumstances and not adventures, it's about Viorel, a 25-year-old fledgling drug dealer, from a backwater little town in the contemporary Republic of Moldova. He lives at home with his mother, his ears get red when he's nervous and he lets his days pass in the usual "laissez-faire" Moldavian style. He gets involved through his best friend, Goose, in small-time drug dealing, while helping him to fly a hang glider that never seems to work properly; and he falls in love with Maria, the girl who happens to cut his hair. This easy-going existentialism precipitates several possibilities, which find our hero trapped in his own indecisiveness, so finally he reckons the moment has come for him to start growing up and act like an adult. The first thing he does is get a job peeling potatoes in the police canteen in order to make his mother proud. The second thing is to quit the drug dealing and become a serious man, but not before stealing a car engine to "tune" Goose's hang glider or delivering some drugs in his place. The third thing as an adult is to develop a serious relationship with a young woman, Maria, who is the lover of a drug dealer in jail, and at the same time a cop's mistress of convenience. All these attempts fail to lead him to the desired state of "adulthood", and our man-boy becomes less and less a hero, and more of a man just trying to get by. Cornered by the cops, Viorel exchanges his freedom for his best friend. He chooses not to fight for Maria and lets her go back to her cruel lover who gets out of prison. In the end, left all alone, he sees himself faced only with a dream, Goose's broken hang glider. The naivety he brought to stealing as in loving, the persistent urge to find the meaning of life through others, the careless way in letting the hours pass by, and finally the choice of believing that flying means only falling, are just few of the little dramas that turn the prosaic poetry of this story into a liberation struggle of the day to day life.Moldova
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016) - DirectorNabil AyouchStarsMounïm KbabMustapha HansaliHicham MoussouneA group of children living on the street leave their gang, prompting retribution from the gang's leader. After one of the children dies, the rest try to come up with the resources to give their friend a proper burial.Morocco
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorTeresa PrataStarsNick Lauro TeresaAladino JasseErnesto Lemos MacuacuaIn the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.Mozambique
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorMidi ZStarsKai KoKe-Xi WuShin-Hong WangTwo Burmese immigrants fleeing their country's civil war in search of a new life in Thailand.Myanmar
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iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from South-East Asia (2018) - DirectorEric ValliMichel DebatsStarsThilen LhondupGurgon KyapLhakpa TsamchoeAn aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.Nepal
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iCM Forum's Favorite South Asian Movies (2020) - DirectorGeorge SluizerStarsBernard-Pierre DonnadieuGene BervoetsJohanna ter SteegeRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.Netherlands
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iCM Forum's Favourite Movies from the Benelux (2016) - DirectorJane CampionStarsHolly HunterHarvey KeitelSam NeillIn the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.New Zealand
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iCM Forum's Favorite Movies from Oceania (2018) - DirectorOumarou GandaStarsOumarou GandaZalika SouleyBalarabiCabascabo, a veteran of the French colonial army in Indochina, returns to his home town in Niger, acclaimed by friends and relatives. In fragmented flash-backs, he tells the story of his adventure and the battles in that distant land.Niger
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorBiyi BandeleStarsChiwetel EjioforThandiwe NewtonAnika Noni RoseSisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.Nigeria
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iCM Forum's Favorite African Movies (2018) - DirectorMella LahinaStarsMella LahinaA third generation NZ born Niuean Female surfer, visits her Island of heritage for the first time only to discover there is no surf on Niue. But Mella's visit opens her eyes to the Islands other beautiful qualities, the magical water, warm people, and clean unpolluted land. However she also discovers the low population has left the countries future hanging by a thread. This documentary is a record of Mella's journey to regaining her identity and first steps at becoming part of the solution in Niue's restoration of itself.Niue
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iCM Forum's Favorite Movies from Oceania (2018) - DirectorShin Sang-okStarsSon Hui ChangHam Gi SopJong-uk RiIn feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he may make weapons to fend off the peasant army. After he returns the property to the people, an old blacksmith is imprisoned and starved to death. His last creation is a tiny figurine of a monster- Pulgasari, a Godzilla-like creature that eats iron. The blood of his daughter brings the creature to life, and fights with the poor, starving peasants to overthrow the corrupt monarchy.North Korea
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iCM Forum's Favorourite Korean Movies (2017) - DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsKatrin CartlidgeRade SerbedzijaGrégoire ColinThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.North Macedonia
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iCM Forum's Favourite Balkan Films (2016)