iCM Forum's Hidden Gems (Sept 2013)

Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.

Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.

A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.

Ishun is a wealthy but unsympathetic master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

As a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

An ordinary factory worker buys a camera on the occasion of the birth of his child. The authorities order him to make documentaries about the factory's success. But his endeavor to be truthful leads him to opposition against censorship.

After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.

In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr. Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron holds the answers.

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?

Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.

In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.

A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.