Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim
Lindsay Chewanish
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
“Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim” (« My Grandmother’s Tipi ») is an exploration of the sensorial and textural experience of a grandmother’s tipi. It is based on memories of being in a tipi, observing in the bliss of cooking and the time in-between.
Film
29e
O
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Iceland, Sweden, Fiction
Quebec Critic Award AQCC winning film offered by Lussier & Khouzam and AQCC

O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.
Film
29e
Oh... Canada
Vincenzo Nappi
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Oh, Canada. Such a wonderful place to live - WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. A musical look into the artifice surrounding the Canadian identity.
Film
29e
Olivia
Miguel Nina
Bolivia, Fiction
Olivia, a young university student, lives an impossible love with her partner Huáscar, in the midst of the dictatorship and the violent takeover of the UMSA in 1971, in La Paz, Bolivia.
Film
29e
On a Sunday at Eleven
Alicia K. Harris
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
A young Black ballerina performs her Sunday rituals, while facing the pressure to perform whiteness.
Film
29e
On and On and On
Evelyn Pakinewatik
Canada (Ontario), Documentary
Albert Ward was a highly regarded Mi'kmaq Elder from Eel Ground First Nation and a very dear
friend and teacher to my family. This recording was the last time we spoke to him, and the first
time I had met him since infancy.
My mother traveled with Albert for many years as a Shkaabewis, a word which I have been
taught to understand as both “helper” and “student”. I grew up listening to her adventures with
Albert and the many stories he told. With this film, I hope to share how it felt to listen to those
stories, how it felt to listen to Albert himself, and how it felt to love him.
“On and On and On” was filmed during the pandemic on the sacred ceremonial lands of my
home territory, following the pathways and protocols specific to my family and to myself as a
disabled artist. This film holds great personal significance for me. I believe that Albert’s message
and teachings are important and should be shared with (and hopefully understood by) as many
people as possible.
Film
29e
Orbites
Sarah Seené
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Canadian Grand Prize Award winning film offered by the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and MTL Grandé
International FIPRESCI Critic’s Award
winning film offerd by Bureau du Cinéma de Saguenay and SLA Location

Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way ,through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she awaken her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, Orbit journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's memory, pondering the very essence of love and legacy.
Film
29e
Panadrilo
Marcela Heilbron
Panama, Fiction
Abandoned by her husband turned talking-crocodile, a woman must now find her own way to migrate to the US in order to reunite with their daughter.
Film
29e
Paroles en l'air
Roger Gariépy
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Alternate facts, half-truths, or false appearances, lies spread throughout the world, mysteriously carried by the ignorance of some or the credulity of others. Do we even know if the truth will ever come to light one day ?
Film
29e
Pastorale
Francis Leclerc
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
All by himself in a spaceship in 2225, Antoine Corriveau lives alone and shares different intimate subjects with other isolated persons residing in other spaceships.

All those characters are memories and parts of Antoine himself. As the story evolves, the line between him and the others gets blurred until it collapses and leads to the spaceship's explosion.

Death is like a second chance, a memory, a futuristic projection, or a parallel world.