Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
22e
Sovdagari
Tamta Gabrichidze
Georgia, Documentary
Gela sells secondhand clothes and household items from the back of his minibus while travelling rural Georgia in search of spuds. Money is meaningless in this market—potatoes are lucre. It’s a riddle that pits rural value against urban valuation, dirt versus gold.
Film
22e
Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy
Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Star Wars meets Shakespeare. Hamlet's famous soliloquy is presented as the inner voice of a Stormtrooper, demonstrating the way Shakespeare's language still echoes down to us through the centuries and remains as relevant today as ever - not to mention as well in a galaxy far, far away?
Film
22e
Sur la ligne de crête
Chantale Boulianne
Canada (Quebec), Animation
To the rhythm of his steps, a walker’s imagination gets triggered. He transforms into an alpinist going through an alpine ridge. A memory resurfaces, he now swings in the meadows. But happiness never comes alone. Difficulties make each day heavier and there is always a vertiginous cliff to be climbed…
Film
22e
Surpresa
Paulo Patrício
Portugal, Animation
Surpresa is a short documentary animation made using a recorded conversation between a mother (Joana) and her three-year-old daughter, Alice, who is recovering from kidney cancer. They both talk openly and frankly about the illness, their present circumstances, struggles and successes.
Film
22e
Teine tulemine
Tanel Toom
Estonia, Fiction
After a furious battle, Thomas doesn't bury his twin brother, hoping for his resurrection : the second coming.
Film
22e
Terremoto Santo
Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin De Burca
Brazil, Experimentation
Film
22e
Tesla : Lumière mondiale
Matthew Rankin
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Mixing experimental cinema and animated documentary, The Tesla World Light is a tragic fantasy about the father of alternating current. This moving film is about the man who blended science and art in an attempt to create the utopia of unlimited energy for all.
Film
22e
The Cloud and the Whale
Alyona Tomilova
Russia, Animation
A touching story about the friendship between small Cloud and big Whale.
Film
22e
The Junction - Chilly Gonzales & Peaches
Patrick Doyon
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Pop pianist Chilly Gonzales and rock provocateur Peaches are complete opposites when it comes to their music. In The Junction, they talk about how a basement jam session together taught them to drop all of their preconceived notions about music and explore new paths of creativity.
Film
22e
The President's Visit
Cyril Aris
United States, Qatar, Lebanon, Fiction
When a small coastal town of fishermen learns about the secret visit of the President of the Republic to its local soap shop, they embark in an everlasting struggle at cleaning up and maintaining the perfect image of their town.