Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
30e
The Knife In Me - Yves Jarvis
Derek Branscombe
Canada (Quebec), Music video
Yves' new single finds him working in a kitchen - only to be the unfortunate victim of a dramatic workplace accident.
Film
30e
The Last Harvest
Nuno Boaventura Miranda
Portugal, Cape Verde Islands, Fiction
"The Last Harvest" is a short film that follows three characters navigating life within Lisbon's Cape Verdean immigrant community. The film delves into their connection to memories, nostalgia, and their ways of coping with loss, abandonment, and the complexities of life as emigrants in an urban environment.
Film
30e
The Muse
Wanda Nolan
Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador), Documentary
The Muse is a cross-cultural, cross-generational story about an unlikely relationship between a young Chinese fine-art photographer, Ting Ting Chen, and her muse and best friend, 74-year-old Robert Tilley. This short film celebrates art while challenging the preconceptions we bring to relationships between older men and younger women, to the immigrant contribution to our culture, and to the nature of memory.
Film
30e
The Rabbit always Dies
Oona Taper
United States, Experimentation
An experimental documentary that reveals facts and fantasies of the history of pregnancy tests from the 1930s 60s which relied on the use of live frogs and rabbits.
Film
30e
The Screaming
Steve Villeneuve & Guillaume Boivin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
It's the graveyard shift at the morgue and Mara prepares for what should be a quiet evening of autopsy alone in the building. Or so she thinks...
Film
30e
The bird's placebo
Rami Jarboui
Tunisia, Qatar, Animation
Yahya, a young man in a wheelchair from a marginalized neighborhood in Tunisia’s capital, dreams of crossing the Mediterranean. As he grapples with his reality, a strange and transformative encounter sets him on a new path. The Bird’s Placebo, told through rotoscope and 3D animation, is a modern fable exploring migration, youth culture, and the fluidity of identity.
Film
30e
The dimensionaires: prelude to Abraxas
Pat Tremblay
Canada (British Columbia), Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Constantly hunted by a mysterious clan of psycho-sorcerers, the Dimensionaires have taken that moniker for trying to find novel ways to escape to higher planes of existence where they can live in their own unique and safe domain.
Film
30e
Their Eyes
Nicolas Gourault
France, Documentary
How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.
Film
30e
Therealphil
Félix Bellefleur & Serge Bertrand
,
«When life gives you lemons, make some lemonade»
Film
30e
Thundergod
Umi Ishihara
Japan, Fiction