Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
22e
Conversation With Ziad
Juliette Guérin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
How do we leave a country when we are forced to ? What do we pack in our bags? What are the things that we miss the most ? Those are the issues that are addressed by Ziad Alasmar, a young Syrian refugee, as pictures of his native land are screened.
Film
22e
Counterfeit Kunkoo
Reema Sengupta
India, Fiction
In a country where marital rape is not a legal crime, it took a lot for Smita to escape an abusive marriage. She lives in a one room apartment in Mumbai, earning her living handcrafting necklaces. The recent tranquility of her life is shaken when the doorbell rings.
Film
22e
Crème de menthe
Jean-Marc E. Roy & Philippe David Gagné
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
After the death of her father, this only child returns home, to Saguenay. She must empty the house of her father, a hoarder. Through various accumulated objects, she will go through her father's life, trying to find out at the same time what is her place among this multitude of memories.
Film
22e
Daemonrunner
Kiah Roache-Turner
Australia, Fiction
Demon hunters track down and subdue a possessed girl. They use brutal force and killer technology to exorcise the demon ... much ass-kicking ensues.
Film
22e
Das Mädchen im Schnee
Dennis Ledergerber
Switzerland, Fiction
A day in the life of a foley artist.
Film
22e
Debout Kinshasa !
Sebastien Maitre
France, Fiction
No polished shoes, no school! Samuel, 10 years old, is about to discover Kin the Beautiful’s way of muddling up and muddling through…
Film
22e
Des hommes à la mer
Alexandre Rufin
France, Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Last day at sea, memories come back.
Film
22e
Dinosaure
Pierre Dugowson
France, Fiction
In a park, a tiny girl inflates a huge balloon. A boy watches her and is about to burst this balloon but the mother of the little girl tries to dissuade him.
Film
22e
Discard What You Heard
George W. Lenser
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Discard What You Heard is an indigenous documentary film, engaging in a reconnection with the land that benefits western societies colonial presence though asserting indigenous sovereign rights and cultural pride.
Film
22e
Do No Harm
Roseanne Liang
New Zealand, Fiction
3am. 1980s Hongjing. In an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician’s oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation.