Can high school friendships last a lifetime? One thing's for sure: before long, Aurore, Nours, Jeanne, Diane and the others will say goodbye to their boarding rooms, swimming in the Drôme and parties in the mountains. Louison will cut his dreads and the little family will break up. For some of them, it's not the first time, and it hurts even more...
ACID, a laboratory for creation and distribution
12 filmsAn independent vision of French cinema
ACID is an association of film directors which, since 1992, has been promoting the cinema distribution of independent films and encouraging debates between authors and audiences. The Institut français and ACID join forces to highlight and promote internationally the quality and diversity of the emerging French film scene, offering new perspectives on our contemporary societies.
Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy. In defiance of the imperatives of efficiency and the lack of means that plague the public hospital, Jamal Abdel Kader, the only psychiatrist in the establishment, tries to give back to his patients the humanity they are denied to have. But how to treat well in a sick institution?
Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.
Guinea-Bissau, 1969. A violent war between the Portuguese colonial army and the guerrillas of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea. Nome leaves his village and joins the maquis. After years, he will return as a hero, but joy will soon give way to bitterness and cynicism.
Linda is unfairly punished by her mother, Paulette, who will do anything to make it up to her. Even a chicken with peppers when she can't cook. Linda absolutely wants to have the chicken that her father made that day...But there is a strike, a general strike!
At l'Atlantic Bar, Nathalie, the owner, is at the center of attention. Here, people sing, dance and hold each other close. After the bar is put up for sale, Nathalie and the regulars are faced with the end of their world and the loss of a place, at times harmful, but desperately needed.
Leslie, a disillusioned young suburbanite, drags his best friend Renard into a crappy scheme at the other end of Île-de-France. On a construction site of the future Greater Paris metro line, they discover a mysterious artifact. What easily draw a small ticket. But over the course of their journey, the Parisian suburbs become the scene of strange phenomena.
The small town of Revin, in the French Ardennes, is preparing to elect its mayor when an unknown character announces he's running for office. This intruder is none other than an actor, who is going to drag the whole town into a political fiction.
Houston, Texas. Alexandra, Will et Nate se débattent pour survivre dans une ville qui dévore les gens – comme les rêves. Ex-cheffe de gang ou gosses de riches reniés, chacun affronte ses démons tandis qu'un ouragan approche. « Ghost song », c'est la promesse d'un nouvel élan de vie, entre musique, hallucinations et espoirs de rédemption. Ce film fait partie du cycle ACID, une vision indépendante du cinéma
In the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. These residents of rural white America have experienced the economic decline of their region. In the United States, they are called "hillbillies". The Last Hillbilly is the portrait of a family through the words of one of them, a surprising witness to a world that is disappearing and of which he becomes the poet.
Alain, an international auditor, comes to assess the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus in order to give the green light to its reopening. Edgar, a local boy, engages in a strange trade around the airport. In contact with the boy and the inhabitants, Alain discovers this isolated land and risks everything to allow the country to open up.
So long
Château rouge
On the edge
Caiti Blues
Nome
Chicken for Linda!
Atlantic bar
Grand Paris
The Candidate
Ghost Song
The Last Hillbilly
Si le vent tombe
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