This year's visual is by illustrator Alex Besikian

With clear lines and blunt forms, the artist evokes a cinema shaped by movements, familiar and elusive all at once. From morsels of images, the wave emerges to face the sundial's steadiness. Our inhibitions are carried away, unleashing imaginations and announcing a 2025 line-up of movies ready to leave its mark!   

"Alex Besikian blends digital and analogical techniques in his depiction of abstract shapes that he uncovers from our every day lives landscape. This Paris-based artist’s artworks offer a colorful mosaic of digital work, paper drawings and artistic texture collages based on old photographs that he uncovers."

Excerpt from Ellis Tree for It’s Nice That, 2024

Fifteen filmmakers are currently watching hundreds of films in order to select and nine of them. The selection will mark the beginning of a long collaboration between these features and their filmmakers/mentors from ACID.

These filmmakers were revealed by ACID Cannes: Lucas Belvaux, Kaouther Ben Hania, Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma, Diane Sara Bouzgarrou & Thomas Jenkoe, Jim Cummings, Philippe Faucon, Benoit Forgeard, Maciek Hamela, Alain Gomis, Emmanuel Gras, Radu Jude, Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu, Sébastien Laudenbach, Sophie Letourneur, Chiara Malta, Damien Manivel, Nora Martirosyan, Patricia Mazuy, Ursula Meier, Yolande Moreau, Pierre Schoeller, Claire Simon, Marie-Claude Treilhou, Justine Triet, Virgil Vernier…