Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
25e
STRASBOURG 1518
Jonathan Glazer
England, Fiction
Just over five hundred years ago in the heat of July, an inexplicable urge seized the city of Strasbourg.
Uncontrollably and deliriously—night after night, day in day out — a powerful involuntary mania took hold of its citizens and they began to dance, as if possessed.
Eyes glazed, faces turned upward to heaven, arms and legs flail

Film
25e
Sprötch
Xavier Seron
Belgium, Fiction
Flo must leave to Marrakech for work motives, and Tom is taking care of Sam, their five-year-old son. She left him a list of tasks to do while she’s away. Still, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar lessons and since then, she calls him to reproach it.

Film
25e
TOBI et le TURBOBUS
Verena Fels & Marc Angele
Germany, Animation
You'll fly without a seat! That's the rule in the Turbobus. Getting and keeping one is a hard day's job for a young wolf on his turbo-journey to find real friendship.
Film
25e
Tales from the Multiverse
Magnus MØLLER & Mette TANGE & Peter SMITH
Denmark, Animation
God is beta testing a new software called Multiverse.
Film
25e
Teplaya zvezda
Anna Kuzina
Russia, Animation
A bird that keeps the sky in order accidentally drops a star while cleaning up. On Earth, it is found by children.
Film
25e
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.

Film
25e
The Mohel
Charles Wahl
Canada (Nova Scotia), Fiction
James and Lola live in a community without any mohel, and after celebrating the birth of their son, they are faced with family expectations and financial strain as they fly one to perform the Brit Milah — the circumcision ceremony.
Film
25e
The Nightwalk
Adriano Valerio
France, Mockumentary
Jarvis had just moved to his new empty apartment in Shanghai when the pandemic lockdown began. Hardly dealing with loneliness, he starts having dark and anxious thoughts. The only way to escape from his nightmares is by walking into the deserted city to get to a friend’s house.
Film
25e
The Passerby
Pieter Coudyzer
Belgium, Animation
On a summer day, the paths of two boys unexpectedly cross.
Film
25e
The long goodbye
Aneil Karia
United Kingdom, Fiction
A day which begins like any other slowly erupts into violence for one family as they experience institutional racism and fear. The film presents an uncompromising vision of what may lie ahead in these intolerant times, in which people from ethnic minorities are often forced to go through traumatic “breakups.”