Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
19e
Pute no. 2
Juliette Gosselin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Like a hooker getting ready to meet a client, an actress transforms herself in a serie of ritualized gestures. Getting lost in the Other, the disastrous experience of this audition deconstructs everything. The hooker disappears, leaving the place for the vulnerable little girl.
Film
19e
Queenie
Paul Neason
New Zealand, Animation
An animated film following Danny, a university geography tutor in his 30s, as he embarks on a cutting edge academic project, which has nothing to do with his ex-wife.
Film
19e
Radio
Patrick Boivin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Tom works the night shift in the immunology department of a hospital. He finds himself a radio for company, but the 24/24 news reader slowly invades his thoughts.
Film
19e
Roberta
Caroline Monnet
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines to cure her boredom.
Film
19e
Ross and Beth
Hamish Bennett
New Zealand, Fiction
Ross and Beth is the story of a humble New Zealand farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.
Film
19e
Rotor
Guillaume Cyr
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The rotor is the part of a mechanism that allows it to rotate. Considering society as a large machine that runs non-stop, Rotor the film is a portrait of the burning flame that everyone carries within themselves, their fears, frustrations, sorrows and love.
Film
19e
S
Richárd Hajdú
United Kingdom, Mockumentary
Set in London, a raw and uncompromising docudrama about an Eastern-European sex worker and her pimp. A politically and socially conscious account of one of the most worrying phenomena in 21st-century Europe, it concentrates on two individuals and their soul-killing love-hate relationship.
Film
19e
Sabres
Pascal Picard & Ganaël Dumontier
Canada (Quebec), Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
The meeting between the I, the ego and the superego inside the concept of subtraction between painting, sound and video. Erasure. Subtraction. Deletion.
Film
19e
Saccage
Marianne Farley
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Loïc is fourteen and as a teenager he wants to experience strong emotions and sensations. In his attempt to be part of a gang, he doesn’t hesitate to follow his friends into burglarizing a home in their neighbourhood. At a turning point, their adventure offers Loïc an opportunity to make a life-changing choice.
Film
19e
Sem coração
Nara Normande & Bruno Bezerra
Brazil, Fiction
Leo goes on vacation at his cousin’s, in a fishing village. There, he meets a girl who goes by the nickname Heartless.