Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
26e
La vie heureuse
Amélie Hardy
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
In this anxious and hectic time, Happy Life explores those unusual outlets that soothe the turmoil of the body and mind. In a meditative journey through these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in seek of meaning and relief.
Film
26e
Laika & Nemo
Jan Gadermann
Germany, Animation
Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.
Film
26e
Last Sonata
Olivier Labonte Lemoyne
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
These are the chaotic last moments of a drug gang that has been hit. Death is everywhere. The protagonist, a large thug, reflects on his life through a bittersweet piano performance. His last sonata.
Film
26e
Le noeud
Badminton Plus
Canada (Unceded Territories), Animation
I had assumed that I had carry the knot in my belly for a long time. But one day, someone said something, and the knot disapeared suddenly!
Film
26e
Le petit oiseau va sortir
Samer Najari
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The little bird that will come out will die for ideas. This comic and tragic triptych invites us to the ultimate, and banal, photo sessions of three ordinary suicide warriors, in Japan, Lebanon and Palestine, during the Second World War, in the 80s and today.
Film
26e
Leopolis night
Nikon Romanchenko
Ukraine, Fiction
Polia, Solomiia, Mariia play in the local theater. After the spectacle, they meet a guy and walk through the night city together. Polia seems to fall in love with him. In the morning he will leave the city and they will not see each other again.
Film
26e
Les bêtes de joie
Marc-André Lefebvre
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Multi-cams shot experimental movie of a burning drum solo, altered with pedal effects, will amaze ears and eyes!
Film
26e
Les combattants du stress post-traumatique
Michel Tremblay & Mélissa Bradette
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Away from the war zone, these soldiers with the help and support of people who cares about them, pursuit another fight: surviving while reliving their constant nightmares.
Film
26e
Les larmes de la Seine
Yanis Belaid & Eliott Benard & Nicolas Mayeur & Etienne Moulin & Hadrien Pinot & Lisa Vicente & Philippine Singer & Alice Letailleur
France, Animation
17 october 1961, "Algerian workers" get down the streets to manifest against the mandatory curfew imposed by the Police prefecture.
Film
26e
Little Berlin
Kate McMullen
France, Documentary
When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story, narrated by Christoph Waltz.