Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
24e
Pre-Drink
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.
Film
24e
Pulsion
Pedro Casavecchia
France, Argentina, Animation
Pulsión (Drive) explores the twisted story of a kid growing up in a dysfunctional family. This psychological thriller follows the character along a spiraling descent into madness, piecing together the portrait of a killer.
Film
24e
Pumpers Paradise
Eddy Hohf
Germany, Animation
How would a world work that's all about being fit and muscle-packed? Simple everyday situations become real challenges for the Pumper: If it does not seem appropriate or even impossible to train in a situation, the Pumpers still find a way to satisfy their training needs in a comical manner.
Film
24e
Punchline
Christophe Saber
Switzerland, Fiction
Two wannabe gangsters can't decide on the coolest thing to say before shooting Michel.
Film
24e
Purpleboy
Alexandre Siqueira
France, Belgium, Portugal, Animation
Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?
Film
24e
Quand elle tombe
Romain Dumont & Antoine Ryan
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Élie, an ambitious teenager, earns his money shovelling snow at the house of an old man named Enzo. One night, his mother catches him counting the treasure he earned. Set in a quebecois winter, When it falls is a short film that marries coming-of-age to the noir genre.
Film
24e
Quebramar
Cris Lyra
Brazil, Documentary
A group of young lesbians from São Paulo go on a trip to a remote beach. While they wait for the new year's eve, they build a safe and pleasant environment through music and friendship. They take care of themselves, they own their bodies, their memories and they feel free.
Film
24e
Raccoon and the Light
Hanna Kim
United States, Animation
A raccoon finds a flashlight in the Woods.
Film
24e
Racines croisées
Paul Tom
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Racines croisées is a photographic and intergenerational meeting between colourful elderly people and teenagers newly arrived in Montreal. A brilliant testimony of the complicity between two worlds which complete each other with tenderness, humor, and fantasy.
Film
24e
Rap night
Salvatore Lista
France, Fiction
Camille and François love each other. François would like to move in with Camille but she’s hesitating. When the night comes, she puts her ninja’s costume, she goes through the little town the face masked and a baseball bat in the hand…