Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Cut!
Philippe Kastner
Czech Republic, Animation
Imagine this: You're about to cook yourself a delicious meal, when suddenly, a friend calls you on the phone and wants to talk to you! What do you do?
Film
28e
27
Flóra Anna Buda
France, Hungary, Animation
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult ?
Film
28e
6 minutes/km
Catherine Boivin
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
In rhythm with the footsteps of her Atikamekws ancestors, Catherine immerses us in the dreamlike universe of her morning runs.
Film
28e
A Bear Named Jesus
Terril Calder
Canada (Unceded Territories), Animation
At Aunty Gladys’ funeral, Archer Pechawis heard a tap on the window -- it was a bear named Jesus... an allegory for religious interference, with an aching yet humorous look at estrangement and mourning for the loss of someone still living.
Film
28e
A Fermenting Woman
Priscilla Galvez
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
On the brink of getting fired by the new owners of the restaurant she’s working at, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau (Sook-Yin Lee) develops an incendiary new dish with a bewitching ingredient she’s convinced will save her career.
Film
28e
A Nice Day in the Country
Christopher Hinton
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Two lovers are getting ready for a picnic in the countryside, but the man's anger over a stuck door handle will turn out to be a tragedy for both of them...
Film
28e
A kind of testament
Stephen Vuillemin
France, Animation
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet that have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: “Why?”
Film
28e
A menos que bailemos
Hanz Rippe Gabriel & Fernanda Pineda Palencia
Colombia, Documentary
Bonays, an Afro dance teacher, undertakes an initiative to rescue young people from the crime that stalks Quibdó, the city with the highest homicide rates in Colombia. This is how Black Boys Chocó emerged, a dance company where hundreds of young people face brutal destinies through a passion. Unless We Dance portrays union and dance as the greatest expression of shielding the Afro people; it is a tribute to their act of resilience and to all the lives that have been lost along the way.
Film
28e
Absorption
Sam Proulx & Cédric Senécal
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Film
28e
Accompagné
Liam Laurenti
France, Animation
Confrontation between a transgender teenager and his mother during an accompanied driving trip.