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Cannes Section ACID Announces Selection, From a ‘Feel-Good Movie About Depression’ to a New Drama With Paris Olympics ‘Blue Man’
ACID’s selection consists of nine features from a drama with Paris Olympics’ controversial ‘Blue Man’ to Sepideh Farsi’s Palestine-themed doc.
That includes “L’aventura” by Sophie Letourneur, Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s “The Black Snake,” “Drifting Laurent” directed by Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon, Lucio Castro’s “Drunken Noodles,” Pedro Cabeleira’s “Entroncamento” and “A Light That Never Goes Out” by debuting director Lauri-Matti Parppei. This year’s programming committee consisted of 14 filmmakers: Romain André, Camila Beltran, Sonia Ben Slama, Bernard Cerf, Lana Cheramy, Mona Convert, Jan Gassman, Pascale Hannoyer, Julien Meunier, Nicolas Peduzzi, Benoit Sabatier, Idir Serghine, Clara Teper and Pamela Varela. “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” Documentary (France, Palestine, Iran) A Rêves d’eau productions title, directed by Sepideh Farsi behind animated “The Siren,” is a window, opened through a miraculous encounter with Fatem and offering glimpses of the ongoing massacre of the Palestinians.
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