Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Friends on the Outside
Annabel Moodie
United Kingdom, Documentary
Friends on the Outside tells the story of an incarcerated man called Jamie who finds joy and comfort inside by foraging for weeds and caring for birds. It questions why the UK prison system is currently in its biggest expansion in more than a century, exposing naturalising language around this expansion.
Film
28e
Furet
Genevieve Neron & Colin Nixon
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Ferret, a guy who gets his nickname from escaping debt collectors, arrives at the Piccolo bar for his first shift. Leather booths, live jazz singer, exotic cocktails : the type of place that appeals to him... that's why he doesn't really want to work there, but rob the the establishment's safe!
Film
28e
FÁR
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Iceland, Fiction
A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.
Film
28e
Gabriela
Evelyn Lorena
United States, Fiction
A young undocumented Guatemalan woman dreams of joining a Country Club swim team in the American South.
Film
28e
Gaby les collines
Zoé Pelchat
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Special mention of the Best Youth Short Film Award

Thirteen-year-old Gaby arrives in the Magdalen Islands to spend the summer with her father, as she does every year. She is thrilled to find the sea she loves so much, the childhood friends, the winding hills on the horizon, and the warm joy of her dad's home. But this time something is different: she hit puberty, and her life will never be the same.
Film
28e
Ghosts
Collectif (La)Horde Brutti / Debrouwer / Harel
France, United States, Experimentation
(LA)HORDE continues to explore forms of uprising and rebellion through dance and directs a short film with the Ballet national de Marseille, in collaboration with the production company MJZ. Based on a story written by Spike Jonze and with music by RONE, Ghosts takes us into the Musée des Beaux-Arts of the Palais Longchamp in Marseille. When the museum closes, figures take over the deserted place. They cross the different rooms, embrace and tear each other, as if to recover their body, until their encounter with the night guard who will leave the museum at daybreak, possessed.
Film
28e
God's Anus
Jan-David Bolt
Switzerland, Fiction
A dry, gaping hole. Whoever is unlucky enough to see it, will find happiness.
Film
28e
Goddess of Speed
Frédéric Moffet
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
A film titled Dance Movie (or, alternatively, Rollerskate) appears in many Warhol filmographies, but no work with this title has been found in the archive. The lost film, starring dancer Fred Herko, was shot in 1963. A year later, Herko leaped out of an open window while dancing to Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C Major. Inspired by descriptions of the missing film, Goddess of Speed poetically reimagines the last days of the young performer.
Film
28e
Heart of an Astronaut
Jennifer Rainsford
Sweden, Documentary
Heart of an Astronaut is a short documentary by Jennifer Rainsford inviting you on the journey of an astronaut’s heart from Earth to space; its beat, its perils and its strength as told by the astronaut’s doctor, the flight surgeon Brigitte Godard. It is a romantic trip of a cardiovascular system into space.
Film
28e
Hebron Relocation
Holly Andersen
Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador), Documentary
In Hebron Relocation, Holly Andersen explores what makes a place a home as she learns more about her community’s connection to generations of displaced northern Labrador Inuit.