Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
25e
Né Bleu
Félix Cayer & Evangelos Desborough
Canada (Nova Scotia), Canada (Quebec), Fiction
In Sainte-Rosalie-du-Havre, an isolated fishing island, the seventh son of a seventh son is born. A legend is created around the meaning of his birth and, despite him, Cantin is proclaimed prophet by the villagers. After having a foolish childhood, Cantin is searching for a way to disappear in order to live a normal life.

Film
25e
OEIL POUR OEIL
Alan Guimont
France, Animation
A one-sighted pirate captain makes a series of attempts to seize a treasure by recruiting each time a crew just as one-sighted as him.
Film
25e
Odeyalko
Marina Moshkova
Russia, Animation
In the far far North lives a very very grumpy Polar Bear. One day he receives an unexpected visitor...
Film
25e
Only a child
Simone Giampaolo
Switzerland, Animation
Only a Child can be described as a visual poem which gives shape and colour to the words spoken by 12 year-old Severn Suzuki at the United Nations' Rio Summit in 1992, using meaningful images and powerful animated allegories.
Severn’s speech is a child’s desperate call to action aimed to those adults who can make a difference to the future of our planet. That is, all of us. Starting from the original speech from 1992, I edited a version which doesn’t refer to that particular UN Summit nor any specific group of people, in order to make this message universal and true for every viewer. As the speech unfolds we see animated kids from around the world - of different gender, age, features and characteristics - speaking Severn's words. The aim is to show that these sentences could be pronounced by any child of yesterday, today and, in particular, tomorrow.


Film
25e
PIPO ET L'AMOUR AVEUGLE
Hugo Le Gourrierec
France, Fiction
In a dehumanized world where emotions are controlled by a gauge, Pipo, a factory worker falls in love with a woman sitting on a bench. He will try anything to attract her attention and seduce her with his own “language.”

Film
25e
Parc à chats
Rachel Samson
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Chronicle of a cat’s misadventures in a park.

Film
25e
Parle-moi
Jules De Niverville
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Talk To Me is about not fitting in, in an over-the-top kind of way.
Talk To Me alternates between two separate narratives and manifests the challenges facing two introverts as they try to find balance and harmony in interacting with the outside world. The short chronicles 36 hours of their struggle to engage in society while trying to keep their sense of self, intact. Drawing from the dance film genre, this short film’s narrative flows between storytelling and acrobatic performance, teetering on the line where narrative structure and circus performance meet. By the film’s end, the quirky protagonists discover their center despite the flux of everything being off-kilter around them.

Film
25e
Pharmakon
Jean-Martin Gagnon
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Like every winter, the boys get together for a weekend sprinkled with snow and psychotropic drugs. A necessary tradition to abandon oneself, to marvel and to trust the unknown.

Film
25e
Picbois
Kevin T. Landry
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
More than a decade after his mother abandoned him, Émile accepts Fanny’s invitation to work with her on an isolated logging camp. While he foolishly expected a joyful reunion, he is pitted against a hostile environment and a woman who distinctly lacks maternal instinct.

Film
25e
Piché retourne sur le ring
Helgi Piccinin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
At 64, Bruno resumes training, determined to get back in the boxing ring one last time. After two difficult hip surgeries, the former boxer, now a village baker, decides to plan an epic amateur fight to bring his community together and celebrate his “rebirth”.