Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
25e
Madame Fisher
Xavier Havitov
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The owner of the H. Fisher & Fils boutique met with us at 8:00 a.m. on a Thursday morning as she opened the door to her zipper kingdom, which she has run alone for 26 years.

Film
25e
Maestro
IILOGIC Collective
France, Animation
Deep into a forest, a gathering of wild animals start a nocturnal opera, conducted by a squirrel.
Film
25e
Man of the Harvest
Luther Clayton & Orion Eshel
United States, Fiction
Written and directed by two teenagers, this is a story of purity, fickleness, and violence; and how they are all abused in an instant. The story is told through the lens of a friendship between two young boys, and how it is brutally affected by a school shooting.

Film
25e
Marlon Brando
Vincent Tilanus
Netherlands, Fiction
During the last weeks of their high school years, Cas and Naomi would rather spend their days together. As “brother and sister” of other parents, they experience feelings of security and love that they cannot find elsewhere. But when their future seems to drive them apart, their relationship will be put at risk, and Cas must dare to be alone.

Film
25e
Marmote Intrépide
Miguel Lambert
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A young boyscout gives himself the mission to liberate his friend from her house since her dad won't let her go to the camp.
Film
25e
Mat et les gravitantes
Pauline Penichout
France, Documentary
October 2018. Mat and her friends take part in a self gynecology workshop in a squat in Nantes. At the same time, Pauline tries to film the portrait of that young woman.

Film
25e
Material Bodies
Dorothy Allen-Pickard
United Kingdom, Documentary
Through interweaving dance and dialogue, Material Bodies is a sensual and cinematic look at the relationship between amputees and their limbs. This visceral and colourful short film explores how a prosthetic leg can be more like a piece of jewellery, a dance companion, or a part of you.

Film
25e
Mauvaises herbes
Claude Cloutier
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can shapeshift the way a chameleon changes colour. The director deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.
Film
25e
Mes peurs noires
Louis-David Jutras
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
We are in Simons’s head, an agoraphobe who is afraid of everything. He shows us his deep dark fears.

Film
25e
Miette
Maude Bouchard & Camille Trudel
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Through the encounter between a director and a scarred young woman who underwent years of therapy, Miette explores how guilt shapes our personal narrative and relationships.