Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
23e
Foyer
Sophie B. Jacques
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
As Emillie returns home after renting her house to strangers, we uncover what actually happened during her absence.
Film
23e
Fuse
Shadi Adib
Germany, Animation
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box. One after the other, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies, and even a stranger’s suggestion to let the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation.
Film
23e
Gagarin, mi mancherai
Domenico De Orsi
Italy, Fiction
A man and a woman live as the survivors after the extinction of the species. While the man takes refuge in his imagination, visiting abandoned villages, picking up junk and projecting improbable flying machines, the woman observes him from afar… Until something falls from the sky and bursts into their lives.
Film
23e
Giant Bear
Neil Christopher & Daniel Gies
Canada (Nunavut), Canada (Quebec), Animation
This animated short film follows a lone Inuit hunter as he uses his wisdom, courage and experience to find and confront his terrifying adversary — a nanurluk (an iceberg-sized polar bear) in an epic battle for survival.
Film
23e
Gli Anni
Sara Fgaier
France, Italy, Fiction
A woman gives voice to the text of Annie Ernaux The Years, a few collected fragments on the shores of a timeless Sardinia. The details in each gesture, in each face, of scenes of a life lived amongst family, become expressive elements of a confession that is both personal discovery and collective narration.
Film
23e
Gloria's Call
Cheri Gaulke
United States, Documentary
From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism.
Film
23e
Guaxuma
Nara Normande
France, Brazil, Animation
Tayra and I grew up near Guaxuma, a beach in the state of Alagoas in the Northeast Region of Brazil. We were inseparable. When I became a teenager, I had to leave this place of freedom to move to the city. Many years later, the sea breeze brings me back happy memories.
Film
23e
Hammam
Florence Miailhe
France, Animation
The story of two young girls’ first visit to a hammam.
Film
23e
Hedgehog
Colombine Majou & Jeanne Laureau & Yoon Jong-Ha & Kaisa Pirttinen & Morgane Mattard & Vaibhav Keswani
France, Animation
A little boy speaks about hedgehogs all the time to everybody.
Film
23e
Histórias de Lobos
Agnes Meng
Portugal, Documentary
In northern Portugal mountains, on a peak among rocky ranges, lays a village called Pitões das Junias. At nightfall, shepherds used to gather and tell stories. Myths, deaths, killings… things that might or might not have happened, all inspired by the internal war between humans and wolves, between us and the wild.