Between 31 August and 6 September, a film selection from Cannes Film Festival's ACID (Association du cinéma indépendant pour sa diffusion) will debut in Cairo, with daily screenings at Zawya, Cimatheque-Alternative Film Centre and the French Institute.
ACID is a "film directors' association that has been promoting the dissemination of independent films in movie theatres and encouraging debates between authors and audiences for 23 years," reads the programme description.
Created in 1993, the ACID programme at Cannes is an annual event where 15 filmmakers who are also members of the ACID association and whose work was formerly screened in Cannes select nine feature films, “to give visibility to directors whose work is scarcely distributed, in order to facilitate a theatrical release.”
Opening the festival on 31 August will be Egyptian band Salalem, who will perform at the French Institute at 9:30 pm.
Some of the feature films scheduled to screen in the aforementioned venues include Swagger (Olivier Babinet, 2016), Cosmodrama (Philippe Fernandez, 2015), A Roundabout in my Head (Hassan Ferhani, 2015), Pauline (Emilie Brisavoine, 2015), Iranian (Mehran Tamadon, 2014), Brooklyn (Pascal Tessaud, 2014), Age of Panic (Justine Triet, 2013), Le Challet De Tunis (Kaouther Ben Hania, 2013), Cattle (Emmanuel Gras, 2011), Fix Me (Raed Andoni, 2010) Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman, 2010) and Noor (Çağla Zencirci & Guillaume Giovanetti, 2012).
Film directors Emmanuel Gras and Anna Roussillon will be present at some of the screenings.
