Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
23e
Ma planète
Valery Carnoy
Belgium, Fiction
Henri, a baker in his fifties, suffers from his failed love with his wife Marieke. One morning after a quarrel with his wife, he meets Anita, a young contemporary photographer who likes the big shape of his body.
Film
23e
Mahalia Melts in the Rain
Emilie Mannering & Carmine Pierre-Dufour
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Mahalia, a timid 9-year-old black girl, feels different from the other girls in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to the hair salon to get her hair straightened for the very first time.
Film
23e
Mal de coeur
Franie-Éléonore Bernier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Ghislain is shocked to find his heart beating by his coccyx. He seeks the help of his brother, who concludes he must learn to laugh again.
Film
23e
Malenkiye lesnye istorii
Veronika Fedorova
Russia, Animation
Little stories about friendship and playing in the forest, and about how all of us on this planet are so alike, but any little fox is still the best tracker in the world!
Film
23e
Malo tempo
Tommaso Perfetti
Italy, Documentary
Luciano is under house arrest. Time goes by slowly, marked by actions repeated over and over again. Luciano fills his time singing melodramatic songs. His parents take care of him, but they are also his jailers. With the face and body of a criminal, Luciano gets ready to start over again.
Film
23e
Mama
Vladimir Kott
Estonia, Fiction
Two young social workers are taking a runaway child back to his mother by ferry. But in the middle of the icy Baltic Sea, something goes wrong.
Film
23e
Mambo
Nathan Kneeshaw-Smargiassi & Clémence Vandycke & Freud Drouillard / Nathan Kneeshaw-Smargiassi / Wilnie Saint-Jean / Clémence Vandycke & Wilnie Saint-Jean
Haiti, Documentary
Despite the efforts of colonizers and influential people to eradicate voodoo from Haiti, religion persists against the trend of discrimination present in the country.
Film
23e
Marfa
Myles and Greg McLeod
United Kingdom, Animation
A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon.
Film
23e
Mennen'm
Vincent Hourquet
Haiti, Fiction
A film tribute to Charles Aznavour. And what a tribute. And in creole, all the more. His work is universal after all. A beautiful example of collaboration and creativity when a Haïtian director and actress takes part in a lab of creation abroad.
Film
23e
Miller & Son
Asher Jelinsky
United States, Fiction
A transwoman mechanic lives between running her family's auto shop during the day and expressing her femininity at night, until an unforeseen event threatens the balance of her compartmentalized life.