Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Peut-être pour toi
Alexander Ophaug
Norway, Fiction
Ruben (11), Mia (6), and their mother live in a suburb outside Bergen, Norway. In the midst of hopelessness and everyday poverty, the desire for normalcy leads to a fateful shopping trip and a surprising theft.
Film
28e
Poisson-globe
Julia Ocker
Germany, Animation
In an ocean full of big, bad fish, the pufferfish is trying to seem as big and strong as possible.
Film
28e
Princesse Aubergine
Dina Velikovskaya
Germany, Animation
A king and a queen have almost everything, but something is missing. Desperate as they are, they search for the perfect seed to grow a child, but the only thing flourishing is their garden.
Film
28e
Qu'y a-t-il dans la boîte ?
Bram Algoed
Belgium, Animation
L'histoire d'un pilote, d'un capitaine, d'un machiniste, d'un chauffeur, d'un facteur, d'une fille... et d'une boîte géante. Qu'y a-t-il dans la boîte, la boîte géante que le pilote a ramenée d'un pays très très lointain ? Probablement un éléphant, pense le capitaine, et il charge très soigneusement la caisse sur son navire. Le navire boitille et vacille en haute mer. Une forte rafale brise les parois de la boîte en grinçant. Et qu'y a-t-il dans la boîte ? Encore une boîte !
Film
28e
Rainboy
Barbara Brunner
Switzerland, Animation
Rainboy isn't a common gardener. He plants drops and grows clouds. While working he injures the vain sun. Revenge! The prognosis for the boy is bleak, but he teams up with the clouds and thus manages to brighten the sun's spirits again.
Film
28e
Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too
Shannet Clemmings & Ursa Kastelic
Switzerland, Documentary
Shannet, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing as she wanders the empty streets of a European city.
Film
28e
Sandwich Cat
David Fidalgo
Spain, Animation
David lives alone with his kitty, Sandwich Cat.It seemed like an ordinary day, but an unexpected visit will lead him to a crucial reflection to humanity.
Film
28e
Someone's trying to get in
Colin Nixon
Canada (Quebec),
BERTRAND (40), a Haitian asylum seeker, flees an immigration camp by the border to head in the direction of an isolated house owned by JESSY (32), a paranoid blue-collar worker.
Film
28e
Starlight Sojourn
Darcy Tara McDiarmid & Chantal Rousseau
Canada (Yukon), Animation
This animation, which is inspired by ancient Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices, features fish, birds, and animals majestically traversing a dreamlike night-time landscape in the Yukon under starlight. At times the animals convey a sorrowful transition between our world and the spirit world, which reflects upon the current state of species diversity risk and loss.
Film
28e
The Cactus of Klaus
Lydia Fine & Tony Blahd
United States, Documentary
Pioneering conceptual artist Klaus Rinke’s collection of ‘living sculptures’—an otherworldly Los Angeles cactus garden—inspires philosophical musings on his life in art, obsession with time, and his surprising, yet deeply felt connections with the cacti soul.