Pourquoi Filmez-vous ? « Pour courir plus vite que le doute. Pour tenter de retrouver la grâce perdue. Pour mettre l’ennui de vivre sur liste d’attente. Parce que, les histoires, je préfère les raconter plutôt que les vivre. Parce que dans la vie, on n’a pas le final cut. Parce que Dieu est un metteur en scène dont je jalouse chaque mauvaise idée. » François Zabaleta, cinéaste
ACID Program in the Cannes Film Festival
ACID in Cannes
Several now famous filmmakers were programmed by ACID in Cannes at their debut, as Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu, Avi Mograbi, Robert Guédiguian, Gérard Mordillat, Jean-Pierre Thorn, Nicolas Philibert, Yolande Moreau, Gilles Porte, Serge Bozon, Vincent Dieutre, Lucas Belvaux, Claire Simon, Alain Gomis…
Every year, ACID presents 9 films in Cannes during the festival. This programme of 9 feature films is made by twenty ACID film directors.
Most of these films do not have a distributor. The aim is to give visibility and public release to new talents.
ACID’s support does not stop with the presentation in Cannes. After Cannes, ACID presents the films to 40 festivals in France and abroad. The ACID Cannes programme is then shown in the fall : in Paris, in 30 movie theaters in the Parisian area, in region, and in Miami (USA).
ACID also helps the director find a distributor in France, and when one is found, works on the release. Once the film has a release date, the film directors of the association write promoting texts. ACID then promotes the film among 200 independant movie theaters. At the release, ACID can help with additional copy prints and leaflets for the audience.
All year long, ACID also organizes and financially supports over 300Q&As, readings, concerts, in movie theaters or festivals, in presence either the film director, the screenplay writer, actors, or the music composer.
ACID is also : partnerships with schools, universities, associations and an audience network throughout the country.
Call for Entries
ACID PROGRAMME IN CANNES 2012
May 17th-26st - 2012
During the Cannes Film Festival, ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independant Cinema) presents a selection of 9 international feature films. This selection is shown at Les Arcades and Studio 13 movie theatres in Cannes
Are selected :
Feature films (fiction or documentary running time 60 minutes minimum)
35 mm, DCP or video format
No previous release in French theatres
No previous screening on french television (cinematographic feature only)
Films produced after January 2010
To Submit a film :
Regulations of the festival as well as submission form are available on our website : www.lacid.org
Participation in the ACID Cannes 2012 Programme implies acceptance of the foregoing rules and regulations.
- Fully complete the submission form and send it by mail in Excel Format to severine lacid.org
- The entry form must be printed with signature and sent by post with 5 DVDs of the film to the following address :
ACID / Séverine KANDELMAN
14 rue Alexandre Parodi
75010 Paris – France
Deadline for submission and reception of all elements is March 31st 2012
For more information :
Séverine Kandelman
+33 (0)1 44 89 99 74
E-Mail : severine lacid.org
English Version
ACID is a film directors association that has been promoting the diffusion of independent films in movie theatres and encouraging debates between authors and the audience for 19 years. The strength of ACID is its founding principle : the support brought by filmmakers to other filmmakers, French or foreign.