Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
23e
Entre Sombras
Mónica Santos & Alice Guimarães
France, Portugal, Animation
Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages in a search for a stolen heart. In a world where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or keep it to herself.
Film
23e
Fast Horse
Alexandra Lazarowich
Canada (Alberta), Documentary
Fast Horse follows the return of the Blackfoot bareback horseracing tradition in a new form: the Indian Relay. Allison RedCrow struggles to build a team with a new jockey, Cody BigTobacco to take on the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy at the Calgary Stampede.
Film
23e
Faultier
Julia Ocker
Germany, Animation
The sloth wants to buy ice cream, but unfortunately he is way too slow.
Film
23e
Forêt noire
Jean-Marc E.Roy & Philippe David Gagné
France, Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Jura, France. A judge asks for a reconstruction of a crime scene to shed light on all the unresolved questions of a murder. The accused, a family of three Quebecker women, must recreate in detail, for the court, the day of the crime.
Film
23e
Foyer
Sophie B. Jacques
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
As Emillie returns home after renting her house to strangers, we uncover what actually happened during her absence.
Film
23e
Fuse
Shadi Adib
Germany, Animation
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box. One after the other, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies, and even a stranger’s suggestion to let the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation.
Film
23e
Gagarin, mi mancherai
Domenico De Orsi
Italy, Fiction
A man and a woman live as the survivors after the extinction of the species. While the man takes refuge in his imagination, visiting abandoned villages, picking up junk and projecting improbable flying machines, the woman observes him from afar… Until something falls from the sky and bursts into their lives.
Film
23e
Giant Bear
Neil Christopher & Daniel Gies
Canada (Nunavut), Canada (Quebec), Animation
This animated short film follows a lone Inuit hunter as he uses his wisdom, courage and experience to find and confront his terrifying adversary — a nanurluk (an iceberg-sized polar bear) in an epic battle for survival.
Film
23e
Gli Anni
Sara Fgaier
France, Italy, Fiction
A woman gives voice to the text of Annie Ernaux The Years, a few collected fragments on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. The details in each gesture, in each face, of scenes of a life lived amongst family, become expressive elements of a confession that is both personal discovery and collective narration.
Film
23e
Gloria's Call
Cheri Gaulke
United States, Documentary
From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism.