Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
23e
On The Imperfection Of The Geological Record
Martin Oliveros Heinze
Germany, Fiction
After a "great" concert, a rock band seems to have lost their bass player. But as the night goes on through memories and delusions, they start realizing things didn't happen as they remember.
Film
23e
One after the other
Nicolas Pegon
France, Animation
A documentary on the everyday life of Grant Sabin, a young American blues talent.
Film
23e
Per tutta la vita
Roberto Catani
France, Italy, Animation
Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the more important moments of their love story.
Film
23e
Piu Piu
Naima Ramos-Chapman
United States, Fiction
A routine trip to the city turns into a surreal nightmare when a restless young woman tries to escape the confines of romance in order to find her super power.
Film
23e
Piwouli
Jeffrey Carl Augustin
Haiti, Fiction
In the school yard, Billy stumbles across lollipop sticks with lipstick stains. After showing them to his friend Patrick, the latter decides to go looking for the young girl whose lips have left their mark on his imagination. The two teenage boys set out for a quest as to find this mysterious goddess...
Film
23e
Plankton
Gustaf Lindstrom
United Kingdom, Sweden, Animation
In Plankton we get a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations that float around at the bottom of the food chain. Through casual and improvisational dialogue this short tackles themes like insecurities and self-doubt, life choices and social hierarchies.
Film
23e
Polte
Sami Van Ingen
Finland, Experimentation
This melodrama is based on damaged frames of the only remaining nitrate reel of the feature film Silja – Fallen Asleep When Young (1937). All screening prints and negatives of the film were destroyed in a fire in 1959. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in 2015.
Film
23e
Possum
Dave Whitehead
New Zealand, Fiction
Set in New Zealand in the 1970s, Possum is a tale of two young brothers who accompany their lumberjack father to a forest campsite. At odds with each other, the two hatch a plan to head into the woods and hunt for a notorious possum named Scar.
Film
23e
Premier matin sans toi
Justin Richard-Dostie
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A late night talk about love and past relationships between two friends with a shared history.
Film
23e
Promenons-nous
Hugo Frassetto
France, Belgium, Animation
Five wolf cubs are playing in the woods and teasing Daddy Wolf who is getting ready to go out and "eat them all up" ! A musical take on a famous traditional nursery rhyme.