During the Cannes Film Festival, ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independant Cinema) presents a selection of 9 international full-lengh films.
This selection is shown at Les Arcades and Studio 13 movie theatres.

Are selected:

- Full lengh films (Feature or documentary running time 60 minutes minimum)
- 35 mm or video format
- No release in French theatres
- No previous screening on french television (Cinematographic feature only)
- Films produced after January 2009


ACID programme in Cannes:

Created in 1993, this programme of documentary and feature films is made by twenty film directors volunteers of ACID.
Every year, ACID presents 9 films in Cannes during the festival. Most of them do not have a distributor. The aim is to give visibility and public release to new talents.

ACID's support does not stop after the presentation in Cannes. In partnership with 35 festivals, ACID presents the movies in France (Paris, La Rochelle, Lusas, Belfort, Annonay, Ajaccio etc...) as well as abroad (Pusan, Montréal, Tübingen, London...).
Right after Cannes and all the year round, ACID team shows the films to several distributors and producers during this research.

Once the film has a release date, the film directors of the association write promoting texts.
Then, ACID promotes the film to close to 180 independant movie theaters.
At the release of the movie, ACID can help with the additionnal copy prints and promotional leaflets for the audience.
ACID then organizes, and financially supports, about 150 debates, readings, concerts, in presence of either the film director, the screenplay writer, actors, or the music composer, in movie theatres in France or during festivals.