From Monday the 14th of November until Monday the 12th of December this thread is the main hub for the 6th edition of our forum’s annual fest that highlights recent films that fly under the mainstream radar. Next to the “Main Slate”, the beating heart of the festival, we have again ten sections that cover the entire globe and a range of genres and modes with four movies each, together presenting you with 50 hot tips that you might not have heard of yet.
For our regular participants there are a few familiar names popping up. Hlynur Palmason, known from Winter Brothers is back with A White, White Day. Babis Makridis, know from Pity is back with Birds (Or How to Be One). Xavier Dolan, known from It's Only the End of the World is back with Matthias & Maxime. Mattie Do, known from Dearest Sister is back with The Long Walk. And our biggest favorite, Radu Jude, is even back for a third time (could have almost been a fourth even!) with Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn after previously having featured with Scarred Hearts and I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.
We kick off the Main Slate, as we like to do, with a feature that all programmers wanted to put in a spotlight. There was one documentary that impressed us in such a way that it deserved to be elevated from the Documentary Slate, which for many film lovers doesn’t have priority over other type of feature filmmaking (speaking as one guilty of such a quirk). Caught in the Net shows in a very clear and confronting way how vulnerable young people are on the Internet to sexual predators. Even though this is sadly not an unfamiliar story, the way it is presented can still be called eye opening and gives food for thought. When it was first released in its home country of Czechia, it actually led to successful legal actions too, and so of course to a lot of media attention. It is one of those films that you’ve just got to see.
The rest of the Main Slate is a bit of a wild cocktail! Two of those returning names I mentioned earlier are featured. There are also two animated features, a cinephile essay film tantalizingly called Just Don't Think I'll Scream, comedy from a truly screwball-style coming-of-age movie in Straight Up and also from Japan with Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, which has been picked up by many other festivals already as “this year's One Cut of the Dead sure fire festival hit”, there is edgy satire from Mexico in New Order and the (by us) long expected arrival of Belgium’s hidden secret to our festival, Fabrice du Welz, with one of his recent films called Adoration.

V síti 2020 Caught in the Net
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/v+siti/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt11900404/

Adoration 2019
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/adoration-2019/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7715270/

Mad God 2021
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/mad+god/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/

Nuevo orden 2020 New Order
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/nuevo+orden/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12474056/

Bor Mi Vanh Chark 2019 The Long Walk
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/bor+mi+vanh+chark/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6800268/

Ne croyez surtout pas que je hurle 2019 Just Don't Think I'll Scream
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/ne+c ... +je+hurle/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt9680914/

Straight Up 2019
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/straight+up-2019/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8855960/

Hvítur, hvítur dagur 2019 A White, White Day
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/hvitur+hvitur+dagur/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt9801736/

Droste no hate de bokura 2020 Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/dros ... de+bokura/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt14500584/

La traversée 2021 The Crossing
http://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/la+traversee-2021/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt8567862/
Talking Images podcast on this years mainslate thread is here:
viewtopic.php?t=6128
The links to the other sections of the festival:
Africa – viewtopic.php?t=6130
Animation - viewtopic.php?t=6131
Art House - viewtopic.php?t=6132
Asia - viewtopic.php?t=6133
Documentary - viewtopic.php?t=6134
English Language Independent - viewtopic.php?t=6135
Europe - viewtopic.php?t=6136
Just Before Dawn - viewtopic.php?t=6137
Latin America - viewtopic.php?t=6138
LGBTQ – viewtopic.php?t=6139
And the checklist of all the films:
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icmf ... am/beavis/