Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
30e
The bird's placebo
Rami Jarboui
Tunisia, Qatar, Animation
Yahya, a young man in a wheelchair from a marginalized neighborhood in Tunisia’s capital, dreams of crossing the Mediterranean. As he grapples with his reality, a strange and transformative encounter sets him on a new path.
Film
30e
The dimensionaires: prelude to Abraxas
Pat Tremblay
Canada (British Columbia), Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Constantly hunted by a mysterious clan of psycho-sorcerers, the Dimensionaires have taken that moniker for trying to find novel ways to escape to higher planes of existence where they can live in their own unique and safe domain.
Film
30e
Their Eyes
Nicolas Gourault
France, Documentary
How does a machine learn to read the world? Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.
Film
30e
Therealphil
Félix Bellefleur & Serge Bertrand
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
" When life gives you lemons, make some lemonade "
Film
30e
Thundergod
Umi Ishihara
Japan, Fiction
Thundergod is a narrative experimental film set in a make-believe mountain village isolated from the outside world by frequent lightning strikes. One day, a young woman named Aoi appears in the village with dreams of dancing at an exclusive underground club open only to lightning strike survivors. Aoi wanders the village in a desperate daze, torn between life and death. The villagers she meets are split between those who live in fear of lightning strikes, and others who look to lightning as a harbinger of good fortune.
Film
30e
Tisser la soie
Marguerite Ranger
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Silk Spun tells the history of three generations of women from a Vietnamese family since their arrival in Quebec in 1975. In the intimacy and vulnerability of her intergenerational relationships, the director exposes the contextual disparities transforming the relationship to individual identity among the women of her family.
Film
30e
Todos los nombres empiezan con M
Carla Scolari
Argentina, Fiction
Maya, a 40-year-old trans woman, returns to her hometown after years away to spend time with her ailing mother. While the village searches for the missing Virgin, a shared walk between them opens the door to intimacy, memory, and the sacred.
Film
30e
Trip de street au Saguenay
Tim Bouvette
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
« On est au Saguenay. À matin on a chocké, on étais à Chicout. Pis euuhhh. Ça sentait le gaz dans l'char. La géné à coullait. Faique euhh... On était buzzés raide su l'gaz. »
Film
30e
Té de Burbujas
Tamara Leschner
Argentina, Fiction
Carla´s friend lives in South Korea. She is coming to visit Argentina, so Carla wants to prepare a surprise for her.
Film
30e
Ulaan Monster
Adrian Villagomez
Canada (Quebec), Mongolia, Documentary
Ulaan Monster follows Misheel, a Canadian/Mongolian dancer, as she returns to her country of birth, Mongolia, to teach contemporary dance. Over the course of two weeks, she reconnects with her family, explores a neighborhood in transformation, and gently confronts questions of identity and belonging, while inspiring a new generation eager to break away from tradition.