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The ACID program at the Cannes International Film Festival was created in 1993. Films are chosen by fifteen or so filmmakers, members of the association. It screens nine feature films, fiction and documentary, chosen among hundreds of works from all around the world. ACID filmmakers follow their love for a film and wish to give visibility to directors whose work is scarcely distributed, in order to facilitate a theatrical release. The screenings, open to professionals and also to the public are all followed by Q&As with the films' crews and ACID filmmakers who supported the films. The films shown in Cannes are then accompanied by ACID and its filmmakers in the various stages of the theatrical release (search for distributors / promotion / programming / organization of the Q&A's / audience research). ACID is a film directors association that has been promoting the distribution of independent cinema in movie theatres since 1992. The founding principle: the support broug...

As announced during the press conference of April 12th, today, April 19, organizers announced the films added to the composition of the Official Selection 2018. There is some relief to my not positive feeling that this year there is an incredibly great official competition jury and there are not many great films for them to select winners from.  But now things can change a bit as, ladies and gentlemen, please notice that Nuri Bilge Ceylan is as of now in the competition to win the Palme d'or and perhaps has become the top contender along Jia Zhangke.  Well, at least their films have become must-be-seen for me no matter whatever happens in Cannes. In the competition two more films by Yann Gonzalez and Sergey Dvortsevoy (remember Tulpan?) to make a total of twenty-one (21) films in the competition.  Still the list of great directors with films ready -and not in Cannes- is long, very-long, longer than the 21 films selected to be in competition.  To be positive, seems no...

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