Drunken Noodles by Lucio Castro
ACID (Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema), the independent sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, has announced its 2025 selection of nine feature films. Among them are two Latin American productions: Drunken Noodles by Lucio Castro and The Black Snake by Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux. The ACID program is renowned for its dedication to showcasing films that challenge traditional storytelling conventions.
Drunken Noodles, an Argentine–U.S. co-production and the third feature from Argentine-born, New York-based director Lucio Castro (End of the Century), stars Laith Khalifeh, Ezriel Kornel, Matthew Risch, and Joél Isaac. The film follows Adnan, a young art student who arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. While interning at a gallery, he discovers that an unconventional older artist he once encountered is being exhibited there. As memories from his past and present begin to intertwine, a series of artistic and erotic encounters start to fracture his sense of everyday reality.
The Black Snake, a French–Colombian–Brazilian co-production, is set in the Colombian Tatacoa Desert and deeply reflects on themes of legacy and abandonment, capturing the spirit of the desert and its people. After years of absence, Ciro returns to be at the bedside of his dying mother. Confronting those he once abandoned and an ancestral legacy, he encounters the last guardians of the desert—figures who inhabit a landscape as sublime as it is fragile. The film stars Alexis Tafur, Miguel Ángel Viera, Ángela Rodríguez, Laura Valentina Quintero, and Virgelina Gil, and is produced by Dublin Films (France), Burning (Colombia, led by Diana Bustamante), and Brazil’s Vulcana Cinema.
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14–25, 2025, in France.
