Cannes parallel part ACID, run by France’s Affiliation for the Diffusion of Unbiased Cinema (l’ACID), has unveiled its 2025 line-up.
The part will open with French actress and director Sophie Letourneur’s L’aventura set in opposition to a household street 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 time when he appeared almost 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 “authentic and audacious” works.
Worldwide movies embrace 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 Gentle That By no means Goes Out stars Samuel Kujala as a classical flutist with a perfectionist streak who returns to his small hometown to get well from a breakdown the place he meets a chaotic experimental music composer.
Different French productions embrace Laurent dans le Vent a few homeless and jobless younger man who finds shelter in an out-of-season ski resort. It’s the second movie from directorial trio Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon after Dying in Ibiza.
The choice options three documentaries together with Iranian-French director Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Stroll capturing life in Gaza below the Israeli army marketing campaign via her video name exchanges with a younger girl residing below the bombs.
Additional docs embrace 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 Youngster, about Moroccan youngsters residing on the streets of Paris, which not too long ago 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, Man Maddin and Robert Guédiguian.
More moderen highlights embrace animated function Hen for Linda!, which performed within the part in 2023 and went to win finest movie at Annecy and a César the next yr, whereas Martin Jauvat, who gained Acid’s Grand Prix in 2022 for Grand Paris, is in Cannes Critics’ Week with this second movie this yr.
ACID’s assist 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 Youngster?
Dir. Sylvain George
Fr-Switz-Pt
Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Stroll
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 Gentle That By no means Goes Out
Dir. Lauri-Matti Parppei
Fin-Nor
