Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
27e
Run
Alex Prager
United States, Fiction
Directly responding to a period of cultural ambivalence and uncertainties, Run urgently examines the collective will to exist and explores the opportunities for empathy, participation, and the absurd present in everyday life.

Film
27e
SŪKŪJULA TEI
David Hernández Palmar
Colombia,
During a visit to her sister Amaliata, Rosa, a wise Wayuu woman, teaches Amaliata’s grandchildren the importance of reciprocity within their culture.
Film
27e
Saydet El Barmeh
Michel Zarazir & Gaby Zarazir
Lebanon, Fiction
At Sisters of the Rotation's convent, the Earth doesn't spin by itself.


Film
27e
Scale
Joseph Pierce
France, United Kingdom, Animation
Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.
Film
27e
Scaring Women at Night
Karimah Zakia Issa
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Two strangers are scared on a late walk home. As they try to escape one another, their worlds collide at an intersection forcing them to question who they're afraid of and why.

Film
27e
Se dit d'un cerf qui quitte son bois
Salomé Crickx
Belgium, Fiction
Quebec Critics Award AQCC winning film

Today is the 167th annual moult, a ceremony to promote ideological renewal. This year, in this countryside village, it is Ben and his parents' turn to experience the moult.
Film
27e
Shirampari: Herencias del río
Lucía Flórez
United States, Spain, Peru, Documentary
In one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to start his journey as an adult.
Film
27e
Simo
Aziz Zoromba
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The sibling rivalry between Simo and Emad takes a dangerous turn when Simo infiltrates his older brother's live video game channel.
Film
27e
Sirens
Ilaria Di Carlo
Germany, Documentary
Monolithic power plants; columns of smoke; a red sun. Shot entirely from helicopters, this journey through industrial wastelands recalls the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait.
Film
27e
Soldat Noir
Jimmy Laporal-Trésor
France, Fiction
France, 1986. When Hughes, a young man from the French West Indies, discovers the new Freetime ad, it is a shock : France, the country where he was born, to which he owes his life and his identity, considers him a cannibal.