Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
23e
Suspension d'audience
Nina Marissiaux
Belgium, Documentary
Five civils get to know each other at a criminal trial. During recess, they discuss and share their reactions towards the situation.
Film
23e
Swatted
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
France, Documentary
Online players describe their struggles with “swatting”, a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.
Film
23e
Sword of the Dead
Stephen Vitale
United States, Fiction
In feudal Japan, a ronin returns home from exile to find the island he once knew plagued by a dark curse and overrun by the undead.
Film
23e
Sykkelfugl
Kari Klyve-Skaug & Odveig Klyve
Norway, Fiction
Zahra is from Afghanistan, and an asylum seeker in Norway. She has a dream she wants to realize, and this turns out to be difficult for her - but Zahra is a fighter. Bike Bird is a visual story about balancing between two cultures.
Film
23e
Taking The Waters
Kathryn Ferguson
England, Documentary
Taking The Waters is a short film about an eighty-year-old tidal pool in Margate, and the swimmers who find solace and community in its waters during these turbulent times.
Film
23e
Tandem
Christophe Levac & Étienne Galloy
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
David and Camille take advantage of the game of chess that is set before them to place the pawns of their visions of love on the chessboard of modern relations.
Film
23e
Teoria Zakata
Roman Sokolov
Russia, Animation
Deep at night, a dedicated cyclist traverses the wintry forest. The challenge: make sure this new day gets off to a fresh and timely start.
Film
23e
Teoria sobre um planeta estranho
Marco Antonio Pereira
Brazil, Fiction
A couple would have married, but an incident brings another meaning to their lives. A visual metaphor about love, death and living in the moment.
Film
23e
The Divine Way
Ilaria Di Carlo
Germany, Experimentation
Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Divine Way takes us along on the protagonist’s epic descent through an endless labyrinth of staircases. As the woman journeys deeper, the staircases mutate and she is trapped and pulled into their dangerous landscape, conducting us through more than fifty magnificent locations.
Film
23e
The Flood Is Coming
Gabriel Böhmer
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Animation
A forest hermit is trying to prepare for a flood, but he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour - who happens to be the hermit's left eye. The Flood is Coming explores the growing anxiety about the state of nature, and our place in it.