Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
26e
Ready for Love
Lauren McCune & Dylan Pasture
United States, Fiction
Amber knows that the right man is out there. Maybe he’s on The Bachelor? Ready for Love covers a decade of a woman's life, as told only through her own video submissions to be a contestant on The Bachelor.
Film
26e
Réminiscences
Virginie Brunelle
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
This dance short film brings three sensual and brutal duets to the screen. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic feelings of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates and which settle in us like so many emotional vestiges.
Film
26e
SHE|/I
Shaun Clarke
United States, Experimentation
A meditation on the human body, identity and movement. Directed by Shaun Clarke. Featuring Maria Alvarez (Boston Ballet) and John Lam (Boston Ballet).

Film
26e
Sacrifiée
David Sanchez
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Flavie is a bold and opiniated 15-year-old who is ready to engage in civil disobedience and suffer legal consequences in her fight for her social and environmental convictions.
Film
26e
Shark
Nash Edgerton
Australia, Fiction
Completing the trilogy of wickedly dark comedy shorts that began with Spider and Bear, Nash Edgerton finds a perfect match in Rose Byrne as Sofie, a woman who loves pranks just as much as Jack, Edgerton’s onscreen alter ego. Alas, the couple’s quest to outdo each other may lead to the most outrageous calamity of all.
Film
26e
Sierra
Sander Joon
Estonia, Animation
A father and his son are losing the folk race. In order to win, the boy turns himself into a car tire. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, Sierra pulls us into the surreal car racing world.
Film
26e
Sikiitu
Gabriel Allard
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Ali, a teenage Inuit hip hop fan, lives in Ivujivik, a small Arctic village where nothing interests him. All of his problems seem to materialize in his father's old snowmobile, constantly breaking down. His only way out ? The famous Rich E. Murdoch, Ali’s favorite rapper.
Film
26e
Simbiosis Carnal
Rocio Alvarez
Belgium, Animation
A poetic journey through the history of desire and sexuality, from the first unicellular organism to human beings, who invent the calculated pleasure: eroticism. A story plagued by moral conflicts, in which the female pleasure was long ignored and repressed takes pride of place, and which culminates in an explosive finale.
Film
26e
Soft Animals
Renee Zhan
United Kingdom, Animation
Two ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station.
Film
26e
Soudure symphonique
Gabriel Fortin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Soudure symphonique metaphorically reunites two worlds at their antipodes: classical music and working-class environments. By joining Tchaikovsky to industrial welding, this short film offers a poetic glance on orchestra conducting, transforming it into a symphony of sparkles.