Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
30e
Savoir ce qu'on pense
Gabriel-Antoine Roy
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
During what seems like an ordinary evening, three friends, Alexe, Étienne, and Gabriel, come together to celebrate Gabriel’s birthday. Between them lies a pact: to live the truth of the moment without filters. This intimate ritual becomes a fragile dance between affection and tension. As the evening unfolds, unspoken tensions surface, emotions ignite, and the boundaries between their needs and limits begin to blur.
Film
30e
Searching for the Unicorn
Fred Lavigne
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
« And this, is their mating call : HAHahahAAAaeaAaAhehaAaaAAeAaaaaaAAaaAaaaaaa... »
Film
30e
Shaaghan Neekwaii
Princess Johnson
United States, Fiction
In a striking reimagining of Velma Wallis’ novel, this Gwich'in story is set in 1400's Alaska follows two elderly women, Sa' and Ch'idzigyaak, abandoned by their band in a desperate bid for survival as a brutal winter looms. With only the barest of tools and a fragment of family love to guide them, they must draw on their traditional knowledge and summon unwavering determination to survive. With every step, the women must navigate the harsh realities of survival while grappling with the deepening mystery of their journey—unsure if they will ever see their tribe again, or even if they want to.
Film
30e
Sitting Bird
Athena Han
Canada (British Columbia), Fiction
After immigrating to Canada, Ming becomes a stay-at-home father while his career-driven wife, Fei, continues to pursue her dream as a First Officer in China. Struggling with societal pressure of being an unemployed man and a growing sense of inadequacy within his family, one day, Ming sees a lost flamingo named José. He decides to rescue the bird.
Film
30e
Snow Bear
Aaron Blaise
United States, Animation
When a lonely polar bear can't find a friend.... he makes one.
Film
30e
Soixante-sept millisecondes
Fleury Fontaine
France, Animation
In search of a bullet whose trail has been captured on surveillance camera footage, the film follows its trajectory and those of its main protagonists. Blending the early cinema technique of chronophotography with CGI, Sixty-seven Milliseconds questions the legitimacy of policing in France and warns of its excesses.
Film
30e
Soleil Pâle
Adrian Moyse Dullin & Jawahine Zentar
France, Fiction
On a beach in summer, 12-year-old Abel is ashamed of his father’s body, marked by cancer.
Film
30e
Someone to Steal Horses with
Dylan Pailes-Friedman
United States, Italy, Experimentation
A rainy morning is interrupted by the radio. A horse's voice transports the daily commute in Los Santos, San Andreas, to a remote broadcasting station in an unspecified location. He’s written a novel reflecting on the past. An ancestral memory. Movement and time become uncertain; we traverse abandoned histories through valleys and train tracks. Among the spoor is a longing for connection, a lost sense of value, a desire to be stolen.
Film
30e
Son seul
Théo Vincent-Suzzoni
France, Fiction
Stan, a film student, returns to his father's house for the weekend. He uses a sound effects exercise as an excuse to ask his father for help, as he's withdrawn into a mute depression.
Film
30e
Stefi
Dejan Barac
Switzerland, Documentary
At 47, Stefan faces dementia, clinging to order. In a care home, Monika warms his heart. Alone, hallucinations grow, he loses work, and drifts deeper into the fog of illness.