Cannes Parallel Section ACID Unveils 2024 line-Up: Josh Mond’s ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ With Christopher Abbot & Jay Will Makes Cut

Cannes parallel section Acid, run by France’s Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema (ACID), has unveiled its 2024 line-up. (scroll down for full list)

This year’s selection world premieres nine features, three of which are documentaries.

They include It Doesn’t Matterthe second feature by U.S. producer and director Josh Mond, who made waves with his first movie James White at Sundance in 2015, and has since focused mainly on producing.

Christopher Abbot and Jay Will star in the drama revolving around the redemptive relationship between a lost man from Staten Island and a young filmmaker.

Other buzzy selections include drama Most People Die On Sundays, the first feature Argentinian director Iair Said, which clinched a number work in progress prizes at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum last year.

Launched in 1992, ACID previously showcased the early features of the likes of Oscar winner Justine Triet and Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania as well as award winning filmmakers Radu Jude, Guy Maddin and Robert Guediguian.

Cannes 2023 Palme d’Or winner Triet’s first feature Age of Panic (The Battle of Solferino) played in the section in 2013, while Ben Hania’s mockumentary Challat Tunes (Challat of Tunis) made the ACID cut the following the year.

Other buzzy selections include drama Most People Die On Sundaysthe first feature of Argentinian director Iair Said, which clinched a number work in progress prizes at the the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum last year.

As per the official synopsis it follows “a 30-something millennial, overweight, homosexual and with a grappling fear of flying regretfully returns to his native Argentina to attend his uncle’s funeral.”

Once there, he reconnects with his mother and Jewish family, while embarking on a quest across Buenos Aires to quench his anxiety via driving lessons, cheap healthcare and trying to sleep with any man that shows him a little attention.

ACID 2024 line-up

A Fireland
Dir. Mona Convert
(France)

It’s not just goodbye
Dir. Guillaume Brac
(France)

Red Castle
Dir. Helene Milano
(France)

Fotogenico
Dir. Marcia Romano and Benoit Sabatier
(France)

In Retreat
Dir. Maisam Ali
(India, France)

It Doesn’t Matter
Dir. Josh Mond
(U.S., France)

Kyuka – Before Summer’s End
Dir. Kostis Charamountanis
(Greece, North Macedonia)

My beast
Dir. Camila Beltrán
(Colombia, France)

Most People Die On Sundays
Dir. Yair Said
(Argentina, Italy, Spain)