Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
21e
Sigismond sans images
Albéric Aurtenèche
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Sigismond Langlois is submitted to a psychiatric evaluation on account of his violent behavior. He just turned 18, and pretends he was born with no image. Throughout the questionnaire, he recounts the peculiar existence of a young man who never saw himself, neither in reflection nor on photo, to the point of sometimes doubting of his own existence. But today, Sigismond is determined to make himself heard.
Film
21e
Skatekeet
Edward Cook
Netherlands, Documentary
Skatekeet is a documentary about Keet, a ten-year-old girl, whose skateboard skills have attracted attention in a skate world dominated by boys. Besides getting respect from her fellow skaters she also encounters lack of understanding from others. Keet rolls through a world of pre-conceived opinions on how girls should be, while carving out her own path.
Film
21e
Skin of the cit-y
Solomon Nagler
Canada (New Brunswick), Experimentation
Framed by poet Robert Lax' sculptural texts, Skin of the cit-y wanders through mills and factories surrendering to the elements, deteriorating in solidarity with the isolated Maritime cities that erode beside them.
Film
21e
Slurpee
Charles Grenier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A boy struggling with a newly discovered fetish meets a hooker reminiscing her past as an aspiring judoka.
Film
21e
Spring Jam
Ned Wenlock
New Zealand, Animation
A wildly fun, perspective-bending runaway tale of a deer, a record player and an impromptu orchestra of native birds.
Film
21e
Stolen
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A young girl runs away from her group home, only to be picked up by a dangerous stranger. In Canada, there are over 1 200 documented cases of missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women. This film shines light on that issue.
Film
21e
Submarine
Mounia Akl
Lebanon, Fiction
Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s 2015 garbage crisis, Hala, a wild child inside of a woman, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to whatever remains of home.
Film
21e
Sur Elise
Stefano Ridolfi
Belgium, Fiction
Yesterday Elise left me. After seven years, three months and twelve days. And I still wonder why.
Film
21e
Sømand
Gabriel Tzafka
Denmark, Fiction
The sailor Jørgen returns home to Denmark for a single night and tries to track down his lost love whom he left many years ago. As the hours passes by, Jørgen realizes that much has changed, and he makes startling discoveries about himself and the woman he used to love.
Film
21e
Terre rompue
Alexandre Rufin & Rufin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
O Canada, land of our ancestors. Among foreign races, our guide is the law.