Playlist
The ACID Cannes 2025 program, organized by ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema), will be held in Cannes from May 14th to May 24th, 2025, during the Cannes International Film Festival.
<p>Summer holidays. Sardinia, Italy. A family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11 y.o., tells the story of their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-y.o. brother, doesn't bother her...</p>
<p>After years of absence, Ciro returns to the Colombian Tatacoa desert to care for his dying mother. As he confronts those he has abandoned and an age-old legacy, the last guardians of the desert prowl a land as sublime as it is fragile.</p>
<p>At 29, Laurent is searching for meaning in his life. Without a job or a home, he lands in a deserted ski resort during the off-season and immerses himself in the lives of the few locals he meets. When the tourists arrive with winter, Laurent can't leave.</p>
<p>Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City for the summer. He is interning at a gallery exhibiting the work of an atypical, older artist he has encountered in the past. As moments from his past and present intertwine, a series of encounters—both artistic and erotic—open breaches in his everyday reality.</p>
<p>Fleeing from a harsh and mysterious past, Laura stops in Entroncamento to earn some money before starting a new life. But, by diving into the world of Entroncamento small criminals, she shakes up the balance of power and bonds with unexpected people.</p>
<p>Pauli, a 27-year-old former flutist, moves back in with his parents in a small town after his attempted suicide. He meets his old childhood friend Iiris, who tries to persuade him to play extreme experimental music with her. Pauli, who has always sought perfection, begins to find hope and solace in strange sonic experiments and a new kind of friendship.</p>
<p>When Siham passed away, Namir didn’t realize that she was gone forever. In a child’s mind, mothers are immortal… To keep her memory alive, Namir delves into his family history across Egypt and France. With the cinema of Youssef Chahine as his companion, a story of exile — and above all, of love — begins to unfold.</p>
<h6><span style="font-size:14px">Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a land border between the African continent and Europe. In transit, Malik and his friends, underage youths from Morocco, try to reach Europe by any means necessary. At the same time, day and night, they survey the city like seismographs revealing the most burning present as well as the movements of the most distant past...</span></h6>
<p>This film is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatima. Offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians. She has become my eyes in Gaza, and I, her connection to the outside world. We have kept this line of life going for almost a year. The bits of pixel and sound that we exchanged have become the film that you see.</p>