Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
25e
Le mal du siècle
Catherine Lepage
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A young woman tries to describe herself, presenting herself in an idyllic light: the one that is expected. The visual narration tells a very different story though, illustrating with poignant force the anxiety-provoking charge of hyper-performance and the pursuit of happiness. A film both funny and touching, and above everything, profoundly human.
Film
25e
Le médiateur
Philippe Besner
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Eleven-year-old Antonin drags his mother to the nursing home, determined to meet his grandfather for the first time. Unable to convince his grandpa’s estranged daughter to join him, Antonin goes alone. In a room festooned with nautical paraphernalia, he finds gruff and solitary Gilles, and they end up taking an unexpected journey.
Film
25e
Le p'tit comique
Didier Pigeon-Perreault
Canada (Quebec), Mockumentary
“The Jokester,” better known as Marc-André Avon, is at a crossroads when his work in the drug trade with his best friend Manuel Gingras turns sour. When Manuel’s shenanigans start to jeopardize his family life, Marc-André turns to his lifelong passion in the hopes to start a new career: stand-up comedy.

Film
25e
Les Grandes Claques
Annie St-Pierre
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins had too much sugar, Santa Claus is late and Denis, alone in his car, is anxious to set foot in his ex-in-law's house to pick his children up. Like the ones I used to know is an early coming-of-age film that is as grating as it is poetic.
Film
25e
Les filles ne marchent pas seules la nuit
Katerine Martineau
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
After a late-night high school graduation party, Chantal and Delphine find themselves walking home alone in the dark. Lost in the forest, their long night walk is punctuated by carelessness and an irrepressible desire to exist.
Film
25e
Live forever
Gustav Egerstedt
Sweden, Fiction
A musical love letter and tribute to the poor victims in horror films that didn’t make it to the sequel. In an anthemic song the dead unite across genres and time.

Film
25e
Los primos esperan
Marina Nerea Malchiodi
Argentina, Fiction
Paula, Santiago, Lucía and Nicolás decide to stay at their recently deceased grandmother's house while the rest of the adults are at her funeral. Old games, new questions and the absence that still beats between the walls lead the cousins to new ways to deal with their loss.

Film
25e
MADA
Joseph Douglas Elmhirst
Jamaica, Fiction
MADA follows three days in the life of a young mother named Faith her mother, Ethel and Faith’s son, Luther living in rural Jamaica, where isolation carries its own sound. As the narrative unfolds, a simmering conflict over Luther surfaces and we are offered insight into two mothers conflicting natures and notions about protection.

Film
25e
MISHOU
Milen Vitanov
Germany, Bulgaria, Animation
The lives of four Arctic hares take an unexpected turn after the discovery of a strange creature.
Film
25e
Maalbeek
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
France, Documentary
Sabine is looking for a missing image: a day that has left its mark forever and that everyone remembers but her. But maybe this absence is what allows her to move on with her life?