Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
21e
No Wave
Stéphane Lapointe
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Anxious Henry is having trouble sleeping. In an attempt to rest, he listens to the sounds of ocean waves on a relaxation radio station. But when he hears the screams of a drowning man in his calming sea, Henry’s life swirls into a downward spiral.
Film
21e
Notes From Sometime, Later, Maybe
DANI RESINES & ROGER GOMEZ
Spain, Documentary
1939, the end of the Great Depression. Ivan Besse took his camera out to the streets to film his fellow citizens in Britton, South Dakota. Eighty years later, a filmmaker travels to Britton to see what remains of that footage.
Film
21e
Nutag-Homeland
Alisi Telengut
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A visual poem and surrealist requiem for the Kalmyk people that were mass-deported by USSR from 1943 to 1957. Half of them died before they were allowed to return home. The film, by referencing to the past and the lost, poses a critical resistance act face to the current social political situations in the world.
Film
21e
O noapte în Tokoriki
Roxana Stroe
Romania, Fiction
In an improvised night club called "Tokoriki", the whole village celebrates Geanina’s 18th birthday. Her boyfriend and Alin will give her an unforgettable present.
Film
21e
Oh What a Wonderful Feeling
François Jaros
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black desires. Nor any truck.
Film
21e
One, two, tree
Yulia Aronova
France, Animation
It’s the story of a tree, a tree like any other. One day, it jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk inviting everyone it meets to follow. Boring everyday life fades as they all skip and dance along happily.
Film
21e
Orange ô désespoir
John Banana
France, Animation
Que se passe-t-il quand une petite orange déprimée décide de quitter son cageot pour atterrir chez ses voisins , une bande d'ananas joyeux et dansant?
Film
21e
Oui mais non
Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
On a winter evening, Émilie arrives unannounced at her neighbor Joëlle’s house. As the evening goes by, Émilie longs for her neighbor who seems to be impervious to her charms. Exploration of an ambiguous relationship marked with admiration, power games, maternal tenderness and sexual attraction.
Film
21e
Pautinka
Natalia Chernysheva
Russia, Animation
A relationship that transforms from hostility to friendship and mutual rescue.
Film
21e
Pour le rôle
Pierre Niney
France, Fiction
François, a young and shy actor, shows up for an audition. At the end of an unconventional interview, he discovers that he is part of a mysterious situation in which he has a role to play.