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ACID, nan filmmaker-selected Cannes parallel conception which first championed nan early useful of Justine Triet, Kaouther Ben Hania and Radu Jude, has announced nan lineup for it 2026 edition.
The selection, showcasing 9 independent productions, will unfastened pinch French fabrication Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile).
Set connected a scorching basking time successful a nondescript outer metropolis suburban location successful nan South of France, it follows 24-hours successful nan life of a young female called Kiki surviving nether nan power of a convulsive partner.
It is nan first characteristic of directorial duo Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier aft buzzy shorts The Lost Children (Les Enfants Perdus) and Bachelorette Party (Enterrement de vie de jeune fille).
“The movie takes nan consequence of showing america thing successful a alternatively atypical way: nan rumor of control… but without ever offering immoderate perchance explanatory commentary connected it. It ne'er tries to clasp our hand,” says Pauline Ginot, head of France’s Association for nan Diffusion of Independent Cinema (l’ACID) which oversees nan section.
Other fabrication features successful nan lineup see Paul Nouhet’s Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou) astir a group of 18-year-olds who caput to nan titular Catalonian superior for their first picnic without parents together and past drawback up a decade later and callback those days.
International titles successful nan action see Iranian head Karim Lakzadeh’ clandestinely changeable Living Twice, Dying Thrice about 3 minors who past nan illness of a excavation but dress they are dormant truthful their families tin declare compensation.
They soon recognize that playing dormant is not truthful easy pinch their clandestine life starring to caller crises, arsenic Iranian authorities await impervious of decease successful nan backdrop.
The lineup besides features nan hybrid Geneva-set activity Summer Drift (Virages) by Swiss head Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter astir a female moving connected nan assembly statement of a luxury watch mill who decides to revive her aged VW Beetle and face nan world of mechanics that erstwhile rejected her.
Further world titles see Serbian head Ivan Marković’s Cambodia-set and changeable play Promised Spaces.
It takes its cue from nan contrasting realities of building worker Sokun, who leaves his crowded dormitory and joins a organization of chap workers surviving connected 1 of galore unfinished high-rises, and Seda, nan first tenant of 1 of nan long-awaited luxury homes, who feels trapped successful nan immense gated complex.
There are 3 documentaries successful nan selection: French head Tom Fontenille’s A Secret Heart, French Iranian filmmaker Mahsa Karampour’s Dans La Gueule de l’Ogre and Detention by Guillaume Massart.
The lineup besides features nan animated feature Blaise by Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue, pursuing nan comedic tests and tribulations of nan Savage Family arsenic it strives for societal acceptance. It return it title nan family’s boy Blaise, a 16-year-old loner who has group his sights connected a woman he met astatine a party.
ACID 2026 Lineup
A Secret Heart (Cœur Secret)
France
Dir: Tom Fontenille
Blaise
France
Dir: Dimitri Planchon & Jean-Paul Guigue
Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile) – Opening movie
France
Dirs: Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier
Dans La Gueule de L’Ogre
France
Mahsa Karampour
Detention (La Détention)
France
Dir: Guillaume Massart
Living Twice, Dying Thrice
Iran
Dir: Karim Lakzadeh
Promised Space
France, Germany, Serbia, Cambodia
Dir: Ivan Marković
Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou)
Dir: Paul Nouhet
Summer Drift (Virages)
Switzerland, France
Dir: Céline Carridroit & Aline Suter
