Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
24e
La saison des hibiscus
Éléonore Goldberg
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Kinshasa, 1993. The city is subjected to violent looting by Zairean soldiers. Luckily, Rachel's family takes refuge at the French Embassy. Rachel remembers. She writes, she draws. The ghosts of Zaire resurface as she tries to tell...and then forgets.
Film
24e
La salle d'attente
Geneviève Néron & Luc Thiffault
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Waiting to see a doctor with rather unconventional methods …
Film
24e
La Última Navidad del Universo
David Muñoz
Spain, Fiction
December 25th of next year. Humanity has gone to hell and only a few survive by eating each other. Santa Claus comes to hand out toys, but in a world without good children, he’ll have to use them as deadly weapons.
Film
24e
Landgraves
Jean-François Leblanc
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A young journalist goes into the deep wood to interview the heavy-metal duo LANDGRAVES, who records an album for the first time since a murder imprisonment. His curiosity pushes him to follow the band deep in the forest, as a snowstorm arises.
Film
24e
Le Frère
Jérémie Battaglia
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kais is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body, he dreams at night that he is the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers, Fehd the bodybuilder and Zaïd the ninja.
Film
24e
Le Pigeon
William Mazzoleni
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Two young, romantic and dreamy artists are madly in love with each other. They would have perfect happiness if their material situation was not so desperate, and if Julie didn't get pregnant. At the end of their resources, but not short of ideas, the couple decide to find a husband.
Film
24e
Le dernier jour d'automne
Marjolaine Perretene
France, Switzerland, Animation
Forest animals secretly collect abandoned bike parts with the intention of building vehicles that fit their size. A great race is preparing. The last day of Autumn's race.
Film
24e
Le mur
Marie-Claude Béchard
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
During a stay at his grandmother's, Luc discovers a strange wall in the forest that surrounds her house.
Film
24e
Le petit oiseau va sortir
Samer Najari
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The little bird that will come out will die for ideas. This comic and tragic triptych invites us to the ultimate, and banal, photo sessions of three ordinary suicide warriors, in Japan, Lebanon and Palestine, during the Second World War, in the 80s and today.
Film
24e
Le spectacle de maternelle
Loïc Bruyère
France, Animation
In a theatre, an owl schoolmaster tries to present the year-end kindergarten show. Unfortunately, the evening does not go as planned, because one unforeseen event after another occurs even before the curtain rises.