Saguenay international
short film festival

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.
Film
26e
Statu Quo
Lamia Chraibi & Marion Chuniaud-Lacau
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
In a world in suspense, a common history is written. Without seeing each other, without touching, bodies move to the rhythm of boredom. As dawn reaches its madness, they break the status quo and surrender to become one with the dream of a new day.
Film
26e
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
Lewie & Noah Kloster
United States, Animation
In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch's sophomore film, Stranger Than Paradise, hinged on producer Sara Driver's willingness to smuggle one of the world's rarest and most controversial films across the Atlantic Ocean.
Film
26e
Stunting Cunts
Gina Kamentsky
United States, Animation
Go ahead and torture yourself, if that’s what you want.
Film
26e
Suzanne & Chantal
Rachel Graton
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Chantal (60 years old) picks up Suzanne (92 years old) to go to the hair salon where she works. Once there, Chantal is intercepted by her boss who asks her to give him what she owes him. But this week, she has no money for him... This week, she has a surprise for him.
Film
26e
São Paulo Open Wound
Elizabeth Rocha Salgado
Brazil, Documentary
In a political moment when the president of Brazil encourages intolerance and the murder of dissident, black and indigenous bodies; underground artists from São Paulo make of their art their resistance. A film that shows what is happening in the concrete cracks of a city that is undergoing uneven and inhuman gentrification.
Film
26e
Temps de cochon
Emmanuelle Gorgiard
France, Animation
The rain invited itself in the field of the Horn Quartet.
Marguerite, Aglaé, Clarisse and Rosine are huddled together under the shelter and
are angry at the bad weather. When it rains, it's impossible to have fun!
But impossible is not Charly!
Film
26e
The Archivists
Igor Drljaca
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
In a dystopian future, a trio of musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.