Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
25e
Les filles ne marchent pas seules la nuit
Katerine Martineau
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
After a late-night high school graduation party, Chantal and Delphine find themselves walking home alone in the dark. Lost in the forest, their long night walk is punctuated by carelessness and an irrepressible desire to exist.
Film
25e
Live forever
Gustav Egerstedt
Sweden, Fiction
A musical love letter and tribute to the poor victims in horror films that didn’t make it to the sequel. In an anthemic song the dead unite across genres and time.

Film
25e
Los primos esperan
Marina Nerea Malchiodi
Argentina, Fiction
Paula, Santiago, Lucía and Nicolás decide to stay at their recently deceased grandmother's house while the rest of the adults are at her funeral. Old games, new questions and the absence that still beats between the walls lead the cousins to new ways to deal with their loss.

Film
25e
MADA
Joseph Douglas Elmhirst
Jamaica, Fiction
MADA follows three days in the life of a young mother named Faith her mother, Ethel and Faith’s son, Luther living in rural Jamaica, where isolation carries its own sound. As the narrative unfolds, a simmering conflict over Luther surfaces and we are offered insight into two mothers conflicting natures and notions about protection.

Film
25e
MISHOU
Milen Vitanov
Germany, Bulgaria, Animation
The lives of four Arctic hares take an unexpected turn after the discovery of a strange creature.
Film
25e
Maalbeek
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
France, Documentary
Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?

Film
25e
Madame Fisher
Xavier Havitov
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The owner of the H. Fisher & Fils boutique met with us at 8:00 a.m. on a Thursday morning as she opened the door to her zipper kingdom, which she has run alone for 26 years.

Film
25e
Maestro
IILOGIC Collective
France, Animation
Deep into a forest, a gathering of wild animals start a nocturnal opera, conducted by a squirrel.
Film
25e
Man of the Harvest
Luther Clayton & Orion Eshel
United States, Fiction
Written and directed by two teenagers, this is a story of purity, fickleness, and violence; and how they are all abused in an instant. The story is told through the lens of a friendship between two young boys, and how it is brutally affected by a school shooting.

Film
25e
Marlon Brando
Vincent Tilanus
Netherlands, Fiction
During the last weeks of their high school years, Cas and Naomi would rather spend their days together. As “brother and sister” of other parents, they experience feelings of security and love that they cannot find elsewhere. But when their future seems to drive them apart, their relationship will be put at risk, and Cas must dare to be alone.