Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
Solemates
Mike Feswick & James Rathbone
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Solemates is the story of a love triangle between a shoe store owner, a customer, and an old pair of shoes. When Andrew walks into William’s store to replace his own worn old pair of brogues, interest is piqued. Tension builds between the two men as Andrew tries on a new pair of shoes, and with that, questions of intention appear.
Film
29e
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
29e
The Eating of an Orange
May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom, Animation
Short & Queer Award winning film offered by MainFilm.

The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
Film
29e
The Lemonade Stand - Making Medecines
Paul O'Bomsawin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The Lemonade Stand is a project about the relationship between Paul and his daughter Lyric in the context of their learning about plants and remedies. Through this project, Paul aims to provide a strong foundation for his daughter so that she can integrate and grow within her community. In this film, Paul and Lyric aspire to share the lessons they have learned along their journey with other children.
Film
29e
Tout ce qui gronde
Ève Saint-Louis
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
On a dark winter evening, in 2001, siblings from two families gather to go tobogganing. Among them, fifteen-year-old Cléo is going through a rough patch and losing her bearings. What starts off as a regular outing will, in the end, be turning her life around.
Film
29e
Tule
Jocelyn Garcia
United States, Animation
Tule is a poetic 2D animated mixed media short film championing awareness and hope. A modern day Pomo girl is empowered through poetic reflection on conversations with her Native community about the culturally vital, but now suffering Tule plant at Clear Lake.
Film
29e
Two of Hearts
Mashie Alam
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Faced with an uncomfortable dilemma, a brother and sister engage in a battle of wits.
Film
29e
Un trou dans la poitrine
Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Canada (Quebec), Animation
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
Film
29e
World at Stake
Susanna Flock & Adrian Jonas Haim & Jona Kleinlein
Austria, Experimentation
Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
Film
29e
Wâhkôhtowin | All My Relations
Barry Bilinsky
Unceded territories Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Animation
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee. This short is exhibited at the Indigenous Peoples Experience cultural centre in Fort Edmonton Park.