Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
I died in Irpin
Anastasia Falileieva
Slovakia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Animation
24 February 2022 my boyfriend and I fled from Kyiv to Irpin. We spent 10 days in blockaded city and managed to escape with the last evacuation convoy. Time passed, but the feeling that I died in Irpin never left me since then. The film reconstructs this true story of survival through a personal and subjective lens.
Film
29e
Ibuka, Justice
Justice Rutikara
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Valentine and Jean-Claude form a new couple at the start of the 1994 genocide and civil war in Rwanda. They make repeated attempts to flee the killings with their newborn son.
Film
29e
Inkwo for When The Starving Return
Amanda Strong
Canada (British Columbia), Canada (Quebec), Animation
The story of Dove, an Indigenous youth who must embrace the powers bestowed on them to fight creatures with a ravenous hunger, unleashed after two generations of slumber.
Film
29e
Inside, The Valley Sings
Nathan Fagan
Ireland, Animation
Secluded in 6x9 cells year after year with little or no human contact, three individuals in prisons across the United States experience the tedium, loneliness and psychological despair of long-term solitary confinement.

Over time, they begin to construct elaborate fantasy worlds to escape their daily reality.

Through vivid, hand-drawn animation, ‘Inside, The Valley Sings’ tells their remarkable real-life stories and paints an unforgettable portrait of the power of the human imagination.
Film
29e
Interurbain
Marc-Olivier Huard
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Philippe-Belley Award winning film offered by Hydro-Québec and La Bande Sonimage

Interurbain delves into a mother’s emotional void as she grapples with the geographical distance and the absence of her son.
Film
29e
Island Life
Gavin Booth
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A one-shot thriller about a gang leader who refuses to confront the neighbor suddenly blasting music at six in the morning.
Film
29e
J'ai 18 ans (La guerre)
Romane Pilote Lamontagne
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
In this cinematic essay, the filmmaker intertwines imagery from her own daily life with the memories of Lisa, an 18-year-old Ukrainian who lived in Montreal for a few months. Two strangers, so far yet so close.
Film
29e
Jours de cendre
Philippe Beauséjour
Canada (Quebec),
Film
29e
Hoofs on skates
Ignas Meilunas
Lithuania, Animation
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.
Film
29e
Karaté des neiges
Franie-Éléonore Bernier
Canada (Quebec), Mockumentary
- Vous avez sûrement entendu parler de la ceinture noire ? Moi je suis ceinture rose, c'est comme l'ultimate ceinture.