Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
30e
Mangittatuarjuk
Louise Flaherty
Canada (Nunavut), Canada (Ontario), Animation
Film
30e
Marie Céleste - 2 goélands
Félix Simard-Tanguay
Canada (Quebec), Music video
Through a series of minimalist yet chaotic tableaux featuring Marie-Céleste, the music video 2 goélands traces the transformation of a fragmented relationship into an intimate and collective rebirth.
Film
30e
Mawtini
Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Grieving the loss of her grandmother, Nawal fixates on keeping a fig sapling alive, her last remaining connection to Palestine. When she meets Tanya, an older Indigenous woman and the resident trouble-maker in her new apartment building, she learns what resilience and connection to the land under colonialism and capitalism really mean.
Film
30e
Isolation
Chih-Chieh YU
Taiwan, Fiction
Taiwan crisis, 1990s. The undead are wreaking havoc on the shore. A paranoia-infused, zombie-filled military thriller. Smells like… soldier brains?
Film
30e
Monochrome
Justice Rutikara
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Ngabo, an under-pressure cook's helper, and Mike, a zealous neo-Nazi, go through the same difficult day on the streets of Old Quebec without knowing each other. One is consumed by exhaustion, the other by anger.
Film
30e
Morgenkreis
Basma Al-Sharif
United Arab Emirates, Canada (Ontario), Experimentation
A short visceral narrative film unfolds in three parts to describe loss. From our earliest experience of separation to the imperceptible violence associated with integrating into a new country when yours is no longer livable, Morgenkreis follows a father and son in their intimate rituals as they prepare to start the day and head to kindergarten.
Film
30e
Mort à la culture du char
Don-Li Mercier
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Here is an example of a city that cares more about cars than people.
Film
30e
My Father
Robby Reis
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Film
30e
Ndjimu
Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
United States, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Documentary
In a future fractured by greed and greenwashed progress, a forgotten people live hidden one hundred meters beneath the surface of the earth.
They call themselves The Rememberers. Their shelter is carved in ancient stone, where firelight dances across walls lined with Mikuba: cobalt that once fueled empires now pulsing with ancestral memory. For generations, they have dwelled in the deep, speaking in drum codes and stone whispers, guarding the last living ore of truth: the cobalt that remembers.
Film
30e
Niña Chilapa
Juana Lotero López
Colombia, Documentary
Through observation we discover the story of Yulieth (11 - 13), a brave and rebellious fishing girl from Chilapa (native of Urabá, Chocó), transitioning into adolescence. She faces the difficulty of growing up in a wild territory where natural beauty coexists with the hostility of machismo. Despite the warnings, Yulieth becomes a teenage mother, while her developing identity is caught between the impulses of her dreams and her reality.