The 31st edition of L’ACID, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival, has opened. This year, there are nine feature films on the menu, including four documentaries and an animated feature “As always, special attention is paid to films without a French distributor and first features.”
“Disrupting writings, giving power to the imagination despite the lightness of the means.” This sums up the programming for ACID 2023, which will take place from May 17 to 26 at Skin High Mass.
ACID (Association of Independent Film for Its Distribution) was born out of the desire of filmmakers to address the distribution of films, their unequal exposure and access to programmers and audiences. Filmmakers who very early confirmed their desire to exchange with society and demanded the inclusion of independent cinema in the cultural action of proximity.
In a cinema market where the first 10 films occupy 93% of the screens each week, ACID filmmakers support and support up to twenty new feature films made by other filmmakers, French or international, every year. In choosing these films, they should ask themselves the question of renewing and multiplying the gaze by giving visibility to under-distributed works and offering an alternative to hyper-concentration and a single gaze.
Acid 2023 Selection:
Katie Blues, directed by Justin Harbonnier (French premiere)
Dreaming in Between, directed by Ryutaro Nynomiya (World Premiere)
Limit State, directed by Nicolas Peduzzi (French premiere)
In The Rearview, directed by Maciek Hamela (World Premiere)
Leave Me, directed by Maxime Rappaz (world premiere)
Linda Wants Chicken!, directed by Kiara Malta and Sebastien Laudenbach (World Premiere)
Machtat, directed by Sonia Ben Slama (World Premiere)
The Sea and Its Waves, directed by Liana Da Renaud (World Premiere)
Nome, directed by Sana Na N’Hada (World Premiere)
14 Filmmaking Programmers* About ACID 31st Edition:
“To shake up writing, to give free rein to the power of imagination despite the lightness of the means; This is ACID 2023 programming. It covers a huge area: from Madrid to the USA, from the American city where the artist sings his blues. Against the background of over-indebtedness, in a Japanese city where the director’s life is gracefully disrupted, it takes place in a nighttime Beirut where two young people walk under the sign of a star and a malfunctioning lighthouse. In a Swiss village, a woman follows her desire, in Tunisia, Fatma and her daughters dance their freedom until exhaustion, and in Guinea-Bissau, it is an epic of anti-colonial struggle, interspersed with anxious lyrics. The tireless Polish director, the lonely hero, the psychiatrist, in his weakness, crosses the Clichy hospital, and the child, Linda, strongly imposes on us the power of resistance: she will give up nothing for memory. The real thing is rejection. But take it in the face and do something else, resist it. All the films of this program prove it to us with courage and strength.”
* Viken Armenian, Anton Balekjian, Theodora Barat, Patrice Chagnard, Lucas Delangle, Naruna Caplan de Macedo, Julien Meunier, Emmanuel Millet, Marion Nakash, Idir Sergin, Reza Serkanian, Lina Tsrimova, Laure Vermeersch, Vanina Vinal
Source: Allocine
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