Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
25e
Dirt Devil 550 XS
Rolf Hellat
Switzerland, Fiction
Residents of a flat share discuss the purchase of a new vacuum cleaner. A genuine film about group dynamics and daily living together, in which banality, poetry and humour are mixed.

Film
25e
Donc, Socrate est mortel
Alexandre Isabelle
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Faced with the climate crisis, Louise, a philosophy teacher, turns words into action.

Film
25e
Dracula Sex Tape
Olivier Godin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Mélusine meets a film director and is offered a role in a vampire film. Dracula Sex Tape is a tale. The moral of this story: Mélusine would rather be offered a cigarette than a role in a vampire film.

Film
25e
ELEMENT
Will Niava & Latigone N'Goma
Ivory Coast, Fiction
Film
25e
ELLES
Mélanie Saint-Germain
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Power emanates from THEM. They have no modesty. They allow themselves to fall, brutally or delicately. THEM is a truth. It is to love who we are. To be worthy of being heard, to set our descent a path they can walk proudly. It is the woman in all her splendor.

Film
25e
Enracinée
Annie Leclair
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
In painting and dance, Marie-Hélène, a respected figure on the Canadian contemporary art scene, finds an outlet for her creativity and her resilient spirit, after losing both her legs as a child. The arrival of her daughters sparks a new sense of freedom, pushing herself to let go self-censorship and to fully bloom.

Film
25e
Errance
Guillaume Lambert
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
On Friday, March 13th 2020, the day after the lockdown announcement, people are looking for something to do and for the meaning of their existence since everything is cancelled.

Film
25e
FEAR IN MOTION
Jean-Christophe Yacono
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Fear in motion is a short film showcasing a unique choreography between a photographer and a dancer. Featuring thousands of “freeze-frames” captured by the artist yako, this work was filmed during rehearsals of Frédérick Gravel’s Fear and Greed at Usine C.
Film
25e
Face
Samuel Mac
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
One summer in Montreal, a teenage outsider confronts his bullies with a little help from a classic horror movie.

Film
25e
Filles bleues, peur blanche
Marie Jacotey, Lola Halifa-Legrand
France, Animation
A couple travels on the roads of Provence. Nils is driving Flora to his parents’ house for the first time when they get ambushed. Whilst she’s held captive, he flees. During a night in the pinewood, she is confronted with her doubts.