True to its editorial line and commitment to shine a light on high-quality independent works, which aren’t enjoying the circulation they need in the current context of en masse releases, the ACID (Association for the Circulation of Independent Film) competition has unveiled its 35th line-up which is due to be presented on the Croisette between 18^th and 27^th May, within the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The selection consists of 9 feature films (of which seven will be screening in world premieres and five are first films), comprising five works of fiction and four documentaries.

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Magdala [+leggi anche:
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Equally eye-catching on the agenda is 99 Moons [+leggi anche:
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Two French first fiction features also stand tall in the selection, namely Luca Delangle’s The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou [+leggi anche:
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Last but not least in the field of fiction, there’s Yamabuki [+leggi anche:
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Standing out in the documentaries line-up, there’s the latest opus by seasoned French filmmaker Denis Gheerbrant who’s returning to Cannes’ ACID showcase for the third time (after La vie est immense et pleine de dangers in 1995, and Après, un voyage dans le Rwanda in 2004) having teamed up with another, for the very first time, in order to make this Kyrghyzstan-set film: Lina Tsrimova (who co-wrote the script of the filmmaker’s previous opus Before the Sky Came to Light).

Ainara Vera’s French-Greenlandic documentary Polaris [+leggi anche:
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Echoes of the modern world will be especially vibrant in Marusya Syroechkovskaya’s How to Save a Dead Friend [+leggi anche:
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Worth a final mention is Atlantic Bar [+leggi anche:
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The full selection is as follows:

99 Moons [+leggi anche:
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Atlantic Bar [+leggi anche:
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The Hill [+leggi anche:
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Grand Paris - Martin Jauvat (France)
How to Save a Dead Friend [+leggi anche:
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The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou [+leggi anche:
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Magdala [+leggi anche:
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Polaris [+leggi anche:
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Yamabuki [+leggi anche:
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