Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
26e
La pureté de l'enfance
Zviane .
France, Canada (Quebec), Animation
Listening to a recently found cassette brings cartoonist Zviane back to her childhood. Based on a real recording, this hilarious film playfully explores a child’s imagination.
Film
26e
La soeur de Margot
Christine Doyon
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Margot, a pre-teen who struggles to find acceptance at school is challenged by the arrival of her intellectually disabled sister in the after-school program. Margot initially struggles to keep her worlds seperated but an event soon leads her to re-evaluate her position.
Film
26e
La Última Navidad del Universo
David Muñoz
Spain, Fiction
December 25th of next year. Humanity has gone to hell and only a few survive by eating each other. Santa Claus comes to hand out toys, but in a world without good children, he’ll have to use them as deadly weapons.
Film
26e
Laika & Nemo
Jan Gadermann
Germany, Animation
Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.
Film
26e
Last Sonata
Olivier Labonte Lemoyne
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
These are the chaotic last moments of a drug gang that has been hit. Death is everywhere. The protagonist, a large thug, reflects on his life through a bittersweet piano performance. His last sonata.
Film
26e
Le noeud
Badminton Plus
Canada (Unceded Territories), Animation
I had assumed that I had carry the knot in my belly for a long time. But one day, someone said something, and the knot disapeared suddenly!
Film
26e
Le plombier
Méryl Fortunat-Rossi Xavier Seron
France, Belgium, Fiction
Tom, a Flemish comedian used to make cartoons character’s voices, replaces offhand a friend doubler. He finds himself in the studio of a pornographic french speaking film. Catherine, an experienced actress, will be his partner. Tom will play the plumber.
Film
26e
Le sujet
Patrick Bouchard
Canada (Quebec), Animation
In the secret of his studio, a clinician-artist and animation filmmaker, looks into a human-looking body to autopsy him. Who is this living thing stretched out before him? And what does an artist find when he opens an inanimate body?
Film
26e
Leopolis night
Nikon Romanchenko
Ukraine, Fiction
Polia, Solomiia, Mariia play in the local theater. After the spectacle, they meet a guy and walk through the night city together. Polia seems to fall in love with him. In the morning he will leave the city and they will not see each other again.
Film
26e
Les abeilles domestiques
Alexanne Desrosiers
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Does humans pollinate other humans? An experimental film exploring the absurdity of everyday life and routine.