Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
30e
Still Moving
Rui Ting Ji
Canada (Quebec), Animation
After her divorce, a mother drives a rented moving truck with her daughter in the passenger seat. The two head into a new future, only to discover the pain and difficulties of leaving the past behind.
Film
30e
Tant que nous sommes immortelles
Nora Burlet Dhainaut
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Lisa confronts Dan, her ex-partner, about what really happened between them.
Film
30e
The Diary
Benjamin Lussier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
" - Oh God dude. We are like, in a morgue.
-Yeah I know man. Remeber I told you about that guy that hid the keys from me?
- Oh God!
- That's right, dude. He did it. He did it. "
Film
30e
The First Indigenous Female Pornographer
Jamie Whitecrow
Canada (Ontario),
The First Indigenous Female Pornographer is Audrey Little-breast, a native woman whose life and work defy categorization. During a candid interview, she unravels the mysterious sexual appetite for “imaginary Indians” that guided her pornographic work in the 1970s, and contemplates its impact on Indigenous sexuality. This film blends and bends archival footage, pornography, and re-enactments, and invites us to ponder how deeply historical and contemporary settler-indigenous relations impact our sexuality.
Film
30e
The Great Cherokee Grandmother
Anthony Sneed
United States, Fiction
A first date between a man of Cherokee heritage and a Caucasian woman goes downhill when the woman relates a surprising fact concerning her grandmother.
Film
30e
The Knife In Me - Yves Jarvis
Derek Branscombe
Canada (Quebec), Music video
Yves' new single finds him working in a kitchen - only to be the unfortunate victim of a dramatic workplace accident.
Film
30e
The Last Harvest
Nuno Boaventura Miranda
Portugal, Cape Verde Islands, Fiction
The Last Harvest is a short film that follows three characters navigating life within Lisbon's Cape Verdean immigrant community. The film delves into their connection to memories, nostalgia, and their ways of coping with loss, abandonment, and the complexities of life as emigrants in an urban environment.
Film
30e
The Muse
Wanda Nolan
Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador), Documentary
The Muse is a cross-cultural, cross-generational story about an unlikely relationship between a young Chinese fine-art photographer, Ting Ting Chen, and her muse and best friend, 74-year-old Robert Tilley. This short film celebrates art while challenging the preconceptions we bring to relationships between older men and younger women, to the immigrant contribution to our culture, and to the nature of memory.
Film
30e
The Rabbit always Dies
Oona Taper
United States, Experimentation
An experimental documentary that reveals facts and fantasies of the history of pregnancy tests from the 1930s 60s which relied on the use of live frogs and rabbits.
Film
30e
The Screaming
Steve Villeneuve & Guillaume Boivin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
It's the graveyard shift at the morgue and Mara prepares for what should be a quiet evening of autopsy alone in the building. Or so she thinks...