Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
Un trou dans la poitrine
Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Canada (Quebec), Animation
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
Film
29e
Une robe trop légère pour l'hiver
Bogdan Stefan
Canada (Quebec), Mockumentary
With the ardor of his 25 years, Alexei lives life to the fullest, even if his village is under sovietic occupation. On the night of January 12th 1941, he will be the privileged witness of a deportation orchestrated by the politic police and the sovietic army.
Film
29e
World at Stake
Susanna Flock & Adrian Jonas Haim & Jona Kleinlein
Austria, Experimentation
Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
Film
29e
Wâhkôhtowin | All My Relations
Barry Bilinsky
Unceded territories Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Animation
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee. This short is exhibited at the Indigenous Peoples Experience cultural centre in Fort Edmonton Park.
Film
29e
You can't get what you want but you can get me
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh
Finland, Netherlands, Experimentation
A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.
Film
29e
À l'aube
Anaë Bilodeau / Louis-Pierre Cossette
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Wake up with three inhabitants in a megalopolis of mismatched architecture. Through this moment of solitude, we discover the simple pleasures of awakening the senses.
Film
29e
Ça va finir par finir
Nancy Pettinicchio
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a queer fashion designer living in Montréal, takes us into their artistic world to speak about their HIV diagnosis and the process of acceptance that led them to reach out to the HIV-positive community. IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV activism in Quebec.
Film
29e
0004ngel
Eli Jean Tahchi
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Angel, a nude dancer, finds a new stage online to support his mother in Mexico.
Film
29e
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Film
29e
A Body Called Life
Spencer MacDonald
United States, Poland, Switzerland, Documentary
A self-isolated young human known as "James" delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past.

'A Body Called Life' is a film made in collaboration with James (@jam_and_germs), with a screenplay adapted from the verbatim Instagram posts of James, starring James as James, and featuring a charming score by Dan Deacon.