« From the French Alps to the Finnish coast, in the depths of New York or the Portuguese nights, encounters, and the sharing of desires and stories allow forlorn souls to find meaning and light fires again. Lazing under the sun of Italy or uncertainly wandering the streets of Paris, kids from here and elsewhere ceaselessly make tales, fabricate the past in order to reinvent the present. A woman's face asserts itself on a telephone screen, through dialogue created by another woman on the other side of the world, opening a precarious window on the war's atrocities in Gaza. From the Colombian desert to the Boulogne cemetery, sons looking for traces are learning to live with the mothers' absences and the fathers' fragile presences. This is what the films of this programme offer us, thanks to the intensity of its daily life heroes. They remind us that, in the face of real life's brutality, we can still enact sparks. »

14 of us screened hundreds of films and programmed 9 of them. Amongst them, 5 first and second feature films, 6 fictions and 3 documentaries, and as every year, a particular attention given to films without distributors. 

We cannot wait to welcome you in Cannes from May 14th to 23rd, to unveil this programme. More than ever, these times to exchange around films — and more — are precious to us. 

ACID Programming Filmmakers 2025

Romain André, Camila Beltrán, Sonia Ben Slama, Bernard Cerf, Lana Cheramy, Mona Convert, Jan Gassmann, Pascale Hannoyer, Julien Meunier, Nicolas Peduzzi, Benoît Sabatier, Idir Serghine, Clara Teper, Pamela Varela