Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Médium Saignant
Marie-Esther Durocher
Canada (Quebec), Animation
In an autobiographical movie, Marie-Esther has just arrived in the Yukon. After sneezing, her nose began to bleed very intensely. She started panicking and made questionables decisions.
Film
28e
Nun or Never!
Heta Jäälinoja
Finland, Animation
A nun digs a man up from the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?
Film
28e
O Gün Bu Gündür, Uçuyorum
Aylin Gökmen
Switzerland, Documentary
A 60-year-old man, who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth.
Film
28e
Outside Center
Eli Jean Tahchi
Germany, Canada (Quebec),
After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his identity.
Film
28e
Oyu
Atsushi Hirai
Japan, Fiction
It is the last day of the year and night falls on the small town of Toyama, Japan. A man who has come to the public baths to retrieve a forgotten object finds an old but valid ticket and lets himself be tempted. Among clouds of vapor and the gestures and conversations around him, a simple bath slowly becomes an invitation to existential reflection.
Film
28e
Poisson-globe
Julia Ocker
Germany, Animation
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish is trying to seem as big and strong as possible.
Film
28e
Qu'y a-t-il dans la boîte ?
Bram Algoed
Belgium, Animation
Film
28e
Sandwich Cat
David Fidalgo
Spain, Animation
David lives alone with his kitty, Sandwich Cat.It seemed like an ordinary day, but an unexpected visit will lead him to a crucial reflection to humanity.
Film
28e
Someone's trying to get in
Colin Nixon
Canada (Quebec),
BERTRAND (40), a Haitian asylum seeker, flees an immigration camp by the border to head in the direction of an isolated house owned by JESSY (32), a paranoid blue-collar worker.
Film
28e
The Cactus of Klaus
Lydia Fine & Tony Blahd
United States, Documentary
Pioneering conceptual artist Klaus Rinke’s collection of ‘living sculptures’—an otherworldly Los Angeles cactus garden—inspires philosophical musings on his life in art, obsession with time, and his surprising, yet deeply felt connections with the cacti soul.