Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
26e
Reste
Ginger Le Pêcheur
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
One summer morning, boredom mingles with the heaviness of the previous evening that turned sour for six-year-old Chichou. In the aftermath of the violence that characterizes this apartment, Reste candidly explores what daily life can look like for a child.
Film
26e
Roger, Paulo et la suite
Philippe Belley
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Two restaurants owners in La Baie, Roger Gagnon and Paulo Cossette, show their life dedicated to fried chicken, hot dogs and hamburgers. While their city struggles along, they wonder about their future.
Film
26e
Room With a View
(LA)HORDE Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel
France, Experimentation
An apocalyptic storm is raging inside the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Violently taken off from her seat, a spectator is dragged to the centre of the scene. Rone looks from aside at the bodies swirling around her. As the storm grows bigger, he rushes to the emergency exit where everybody rushes after him...

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.