Saguenay international
short film festival

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
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
Si viene de la Tierra
Katalin Egely
Argentina, Hungary, Animation
A little girl, a cumbia and a sustainable, healthy world.
Film
26e
Sideral
Carlos Segundo
France, Brazil, Fiction
In Natal, in the north of Brazil, the historic first launch of a Brazilian rocket is about to take place. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre. He is a mechanic and she is a cleaning lady, but she dreams of other horizons…
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
Soft Animals
Renee Zhan
United Kingdom, Animation
Two ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station.
Film
26e
Sparkles
Jacqueline Pelczar
Australia, Fiction
A 30-something-year-old Down syndrome woman leaves her past behind, and runs away from a small country town, heading towards the city. Along her journey, she makes an unlikely friendship with an Outback Drag Queen, teaching us all not to be afraid to celebrate who we are.
Film
26e
Starfuckers
Antonio Marziale
United States, Fiction
Starfuckers examines power dynamics in Hollywood, and celebrates the art of drag and how it can be used to create an alternative reality for oneself. Drag has always been used as a creative tool for people who don’t feel like they fit in to express themselves.