ACID has unveiled its selection for the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Discover the list of films presented in this parallel section in 2022.
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ACID or Association of Independent Cinema for its Diffusion was created by 180 filmmakers in the early 1990s following their “Résister” manifesto. Since 1993, the ACID has had its programming at the Cannes Film Festival with 9 feature films, chosen from among hundreds of films from all over the world.
The 2022 edition
This year, there are 9 feature films, including 3 documentaries, “with, as usual, particular attention paid to films without a French distributor and to first features“. 4 features are (co)directed by women. As always, this selection gives pride of place to French cinema with 4 feature films produced in France and 3 French co-productions.
- 99 Moons by Jan Gassmann (Switzerland)
- Atlantic Bar by Fanny Molins (France) 1st feature film
- La Colline by Denis Gheerbrant & Lina Tsrimova, documentary (France, Belgium) 1st feature film in co-production
- Grand Paris by Martin Jauvat (France) 1st feature film
- How to Save a Dead Friend by Marusya Marusya Syroechkovskaya, documentary (Sweden, Norway, France, Germany) 1st feature
- Jacky Caillou by Lucas Delangle (France) 1st feature film
- Magdala by Damien Manivel (France)
- Polaris by Ainara Vera, documentary (France, Greenland) 1st feature film
- Yamabuki by Juichiro YAMASAKI (France, Japan)
In the announcement of their selection, the 15 filmmakers* who concocted it specify: “Our ACID Cannes 2022 program takes hold of torn territories, of bodies shaken by destinies that are both human comedy and tragedy. Films whose stories mix sacred and profane, metamorphosis as resistance to the passage of time. To our wavering world, all these films oppose the brilliance of their gesture, the audacity of filmmakers who build paths where life, in all its forms, takes back all its rights. Our programming seizes torn territories, bodies shaken by destinies that are part of human comedy as well as its tragedy. Singular cinematographic expressions whose stories mix sacred and profane, metamorphosis as resistance to the passage of time. To our wavering world, all these films oppose the brilliance of their gesture, the audacity of filmmakers who build paths where life, in all its forms, takes back all its rights.“
Among the films selected at ACID in 2021, I COMETE, in theaters this Wednesday, April 20
* The filmmakers programming Acid 2022: Aline Fischer, Bojena Horackova, Mathieu Lis, Emmanuelle Millet, Thomas Paulot, Nicolas Peduzzi, Vladimir Perišić, Laure Portier, Frédéric Ramade, Maria Reggiani, Kathy Sebbah, Ina Seghezzi, Idir Serghine, Reza Serkanyan and Corto Vaclav.