Cannes parallel part ACID, run by France’s Affiliation for the Diffusion of Impartial 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 informed 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 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 “unique and audacious” works.
Worldwide 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 Mild 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.
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 navy marketing campaign by means of her video name exchanges with a younger girl dwelling below the bombs.
The opposite documentaries are 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 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 successful filmmakers Radu Jude, Man Maddin and Robert Guediguian.
More moderen highlights embody animated characteristic Rooster for Linda!, which performed within the part in 2023 and went to win greatest 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.
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 Mild That By no means Goes Out
Dir. Lauri-Matti Parppei
Fin-Nor
