Cycles

ACID, a laboratory for creation and distribution

An independent vision of French cinema

13 films

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.

ACID, a laboratory for creation and distribution
  • Adventure
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h16
by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach

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!

  • Biopic
  • 2023
  • France
  • 1h42
by Nicolas Peduzzi

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?

  • Musical comedy, Biopic
  • 2023
  • France, Canada
  • 1h24
by Justine Harbonnier

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. 

  • Historical film, Drama, Biopic
  • 2023
  • Guinea-Bissau, France
  • 1h52
by Sana Na N'Hada

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.

  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h17
by Fanny Molins

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.

  • Comedy
  • 2022
  • France
  • 1h20
by Martin Jauvat

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.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h49
by Thomas Paulot

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.

  • 2021
  • France
  • 1h16
by Nicolas Peduzzi

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

  • 2020
  • France
  • 1h20
by Thomas Jenkoe and Diane-Sara Bouzgarrou

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.

  • Drama
  • 2020
  • France, Belgium, Armenia
  • 1h40
by Nora Martirosyan

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.

  • Fantasy and science fiction
  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h46
by Stéphane Batut

Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ghost. How will they manage to love each other and seize this second chance?

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h32
by Alain Raoust

Salomé lands a summer job in the junkyard of a village in Southern France. In this timeless place, her rebellious adolescence catches up with her. She meets friends, old and new, who all share the same desire to build a way of life far from any social order.

  • 2019
  • France
  • 1h23
by Alice Odiot and Jean-Robert Viallet

Thirty thousand square meters and 2.000 inmates, half of them under 30 years old. The Baumettes jail tells about misery, violence, abandonment, and also hopes. It is a story with its screams and its silences. A concentrate of humanity.

By continuing to browse this website, you agree to our use of cookies to improve your experience.Find out more