The Forum Film Festival

The Forum presents “Icarus,” a 2017 American documentary film by Bryan Fogel that chronicles his experimenting of doping to win an amateur cycling race. Along with the director of Russia’s anti-doping laboratory, they uncover a state-sponsored Olympic doping program. Icarus was awarded the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award (Orwell Award) and the Winner Critics’ Choice Documentary Award. It walked away with the Best Documentary Academy Award. If anyone wants insight into cheating in sports and the complicated reasons why it happens over and over, Icarus will open your eyes as never before. It is essential viewing. “Icarus” is open to the public free of charge