Cannes parallel part ACID, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (l’ACID), has unveiled its 2025 line-up.
The part will open with French actress and director Sophie Letourneur’s L’aventura set towards a household highway journey to Sardinia instructed by the 11-year-old daughter.
Letourneur co-stars because the mom reverse Philippe Katerine, who gained worldwide fame over the summer season when he appeared practically bare and painted blue as Dionysus within the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
The part will showcase 9 options – eight of them world premieres – chosen by a committee of administrators from 600 submissions and geared toward showcasing “original and audacious” works.
International movies embody U.S.-based Argentinian director Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles. Loosely impressed by the lifetime of embroidery artist Sal Salandra, it follows a younger artist as he arrives in New York and tries to interrupt into the gallery scene.
From Finland, Lauri-Matti Parppei’s A Light That Never Goes Out stars Samuel Kujala as a classical flutist with a perfectionist streak who returns to his small hometown to get better from a breakdown the place he meets a chaotic experimental music composer.
From Portugal, Pedro Cabeleira’s Entroncamento follows a younger girl fleeing from a harsh and mysterious previous. She stops within the provincial city Entroncamento to earn some cash the place she will get caught up its felony scene, shaking up the steadiness of energy and forming bonds with surprising folks.
Other French productions embody Laurent dans le Vent a few homeless and jobless younger man who finds shelter in an out-of-season ski resort. It is the second movie from directorial trio Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon after Dying in Ibiza.
French director Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s The Black Snake follows a person who’s compelled to confront his previous and current when he returns after a number of years absence to the Colombian desert of Tatacoa, a harsh and hostile atmosphere the place his household has lived for generations, to go to his dying mom.
The choice options three documentaries together with Iranian-French director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk capturing life in Gaza underneath the Israeli army marketing campaign by means of her video name exchanges with a younger girl dwelling underneath the bombs.
Further docs embody Life After Siham by Namir Abdel Messeeh (The Virgin, the Copts and Me) during which delves into his household’s historical past between Egypt and France, and Sylvain George’s Nuit Obscure – Ain’t I A Child, about Moroccan youngsters dwelling on the streets of Paris, which just lately premiered at Visions du Reel in Nyons.
Launched in 1992, ACID has beforehand championed the primary options of Oscar winner Justine Triet (Age of Panic) and Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania (Challet Tunes) in addition to award profitable filmmakers Radu Jude, Guy Maddin and Robert Guédiguian.
More latest highlights embody animated characteristic Chicken for Linda!, which performed within the part in 2023 and went to win finest movie at Annecy and a César the next 12 months, whereas Martin Jauvat, who gained Acid’s Grand Prix in 2022 for Grand Paris, is in Cannes Critics’ Week with this second movie this 12 months.
ACID’s help doesn’t cease after Cannes. Its helped finance 150 worldwide screenings for movies in its 2024 choice, and arranged one other 400 occasions in its 250 accomplice cinemas in France.
2025 Line-up
L’aventura
Dir. Sophie Letourneur
Fr
The Black Snake (La Couleuvre Noire)
Dir. Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux
Fr-Col-Br
Drunken Noodles
Dir. Lucio Castro
U.S.-Arg
Nuit Obscure – Ain’t I A Child?
Dir. Sylvain George
Fr-Switz-Pt
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk
Dir. Sepideh Farsi
Fr-Pal-Ir
Life After Siham
Dir. Namir Abdel Messeeh
Fr-Egy
Entroncamento
Dir. Pedro Cabeleira
Pt-Fr
Laurent Dans Le Vent
Dirs: Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon
Fr
A Light That Never Goes Out
Dir. Lauri-Matti Parppei
Fin-Nor