2025 L'ACID Selection

Yesterday, April 15, organizers announced the selection for ACID, Cannes parallel section run by France's Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (l'ACID); ACID is an association of film directors which, since 1992, has been promoting the cinema distribution of independent films and encouraging debates between authors and audiences. The strength of the solidarity chain it has built lies on its founding principle: the support given by filmmakers to other filmmakers, French or international.

The selection committee with 14 members screened hundreds of films and programmed 9 of them. Amongst them, 5 first and second feature films, 6 fictions and 3 documentaries, and as every year, a particular attention given to films without distributors.

Excerpt from their presentation: "From the French Alps to the Finnish coast, in the depths of New York or the Portuguese nights, encounters, and the sharing of desires and stories allow forlorn souls to find meaning and light fires again. Lazing under the sun of Italy or uncertainly wandering the streets of Paris, kids from here and elsewhere ceaselessly make tales, fabricate the past in order to reinvent the present. A woman's face asserts itself on a telephone screen, through dialogue created by another woman on the other side of the world, opening a precarious window on the war's atrocities in Gaza. From the Colombian desert to the Boulogne cemetery, sons looking for traces are learning to live with the mothers' absences and the fathers' fragile presences. This is what the films of this programme offer us, thanks to the intensity of its daily life heroes. They remind us that, in the face of real life's brutality, we can still enact sparks."

The Selection

Opening film: L'aventura, Sophie Letourneur, France
Culebra Negra (The Black Snake), Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux, France, Colombia and Brazil
Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro, USA and Argentina
Entroncamento, Pedro Cabeleira, Portugal and France
Jossain on valo joka ei sammu (A Light That Never Goes Out), Lauri-Matti Parppei, Norway and Finland 1st film
الحياة بعد سهام La Vie après siham (Life After Siham), Namir Abdel Messeeh, France and Egypt (documentary)
Laurent Dans Le Vent (Drifting Laurent), Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon, France
Nuit Obscure - Ain't I A Child? (Obscure Night - Ain't a Child?), Sylvain George, France, Switzerland and Portugal (documentary)
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk, Sepideh Farsi, France, Palestine and Iran (documentary)

To check info about films, available in French and English, go to official site here.

To check available posters go Pinterest.