Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
27e
Volver al Sur
Sofía Ayala
Germany, Fiction
Father is dead. Daughter and son carry his corpse south of the border. In spite of the risk this journey entails, they set out to burry him in the place they once called home. A migrant family story.
Film
27e
Wa Thakarina Wa Unthana
Ahmad Alyaseer
Jordan, Fiction
A father and mother are faced with the painful task of washing and shrouding their transgender daughter. Shrouding is an Islamic religious practice that is deemed obligatory to carry out upon death.

Film
27e
We Forgot About The Zombies
Chris McInroy
United States, Fiction
Two dudes think they found the cure for zombie bites.

Film
27e
When You Left Me on That Boulevard
Kayla Galang
United States, Fiction
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006. Stoned and harboring a romance with her maybe-boyfriend, Ly moves through her family's gossip, nosiness, and loudness until the day ends.
Film
27e
elles s'élèvent, ces forteresses éponges
Guillaume Vallée
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Experimental filmmaker Guillaume Vallée explores and questions his sensory memory as a teenager, partially lost.
Film
27e
À des amis
Samuel Gagnon-Pitre
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
It is summertime. Jade, Romain, and Benjamin are living in a hostel where they work, on the banks of the Saguenay River. The days are divised between hostel maintenance, summer wanderings and drunk nights. When Benjamin leaves without a word, the trio becomes a duo.
Film
27e
À la fontaine
Philippe Berthelet
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Alice is a Montreal student. One spring morning, her class is interrupted by the announcement of one of her best friends' suicide. Alice spends the rest of the day feeling numb, with no one helping her. It is the beginning of an absent mourning.
Film
27e
À la vie à l'amor
Emilie Mannering
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Following a hard break up, Cesar feels nothing. On the day of his 30th birthday, he asks one thing and one thing only, from the people he meets: their testimonial on unconditional love in front of his camera.
Film
27e
À mort le bikini !
Justine Gauthier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Best Youth Award winnig film

Lili, 10-year-old, rebels when her parents force her to wear a bikini top, even though she has always swam topless.
Film
27e
Échos
Sophie B. Jacques
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Despite the undeniable complicity that unites them, Manue, 11 years old, suffer froms the uncontrolled anger of her mother, Isabelle. To what extent will this violence echo within her?