Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
26e
Dans la Nature
Marcel Barelli
Switzerland, Animation
In nature, a couple is a male and a female. Well, not always! A couple is also a female and a female. Or a male and a male. You may not be aware of it, but homosexuality isn't just a human story.
Film
26e
Descente
Mehdi Fikri
France, Fiction
France, November 2015. After the Paris terror attacks, the state of emergency is proclaimed to facilitate the work of police forces.
4 AM. A policewoman helps colleagues to conduct a search, but soon finds out that things aren’t going the way they’re supposed to.
Film
26e
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Roger Gariépy
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Réal Gendron is an unremarkable old man. He believes in God. He believes in friendship. And he believes in life. So when he receives an e-mail from a total stranger in Africa informing him that he’s the sole legatee of an immense fortune, he believes that, too…

Film
26e
Do Butterflies Remember Being Caterpillars
Caraz
United States, Canada (Quebec), Canada (Quebec), Other
Canadian b-boy star Luca Patuelli, born with a rare muscle disorder that shaped his dance style, plays a childlike man who embraces an eerie dance journey that leads him into various set-ups of adulting. Making the viewer wonder if he is a child becoming a man or a man seeking to be a child again.
Film
26e
Druh
Aaron Ries
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Three teenage boys embark on a weekend scouting trip into the wilderness of Ontario, Canada. On the trip, their leaders challenge them to compete for a prized scout badge to prove themselves, where for one day they can't speak, for one day they can't eat, and on the final day they can't be seen.
Film
26e
Duo Li
Zou Jing
Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Fiction
Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.
Film
26e
Débâcle
Catherine Arsenault
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Débâcle draws its inspiration from the shifting courses of the St-Lawrence river during wintertime. Through a search for the vast ice patch which usually clings to the Quebec North Shore coastline during the colder months, Débâcle bears witness to climate change and the fragility of our coastal territory.
Film
26e
EN ATTENDANT LOLO
Jules Ronfard
France, Canada (Quebec), Fiction
On a country road, a couple gone for a ride on a scooter find themselves immobilized after running out of gas. While waiting for their friend Lolo, a philosophical discussion ensues.
Film
26e
El Desayuno
Cristian Camilo Arcos Cerón
Colombia, Animation
During 2020 quarantine, a group of neighbors in a building share coffee, bread, fish and other foods making a breakfast for the homeless man who plays a song on the street. When he receives the breakfast he also shares it with his animals having a breakfast full of love and compassion.
Film
26e
Embrasse-moi donc
Laetitia Mallette
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Haunted by the memories of the past, three inseparable friends; Nathan, Romane, and Esteban escape their reality by trying to pass time in a cottage. They lose themselves so they can forget the scars that make them remember Montreal and Theo.