Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
Green Light
Bérenger Barry
France, Fiction
Hazel & Ben have been pals forever. But today is not forever…
Film
29e
Hannah & Le Crocodile
Lore Mechelaere
Belgium, Animation
When Fien discovers that her sister Hannah is threatened by a vicious crocodile, the world is turned upside down. Fien devises a plan to defeat the crocodile so Hannah will make it to her next birthday.
Film
29e
Hurikán
Jan Saska
Slovakia, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Animation
Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.
Film
29e
Ice Merchants
João Gonzalez
France, Portugal, United Kingdom, Animation
Best Animation Film Award winning film

Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous, cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away, where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Film
29e
Inkwo for When The Starving Return
Amanda Strong
Canada (British Columbia), Canada (Quebec), Animation
The story of Dove, an Indigenous youth who must embrace the powers bestowed on them to fight creatures with a ravenous hunger, unleashed after two generations of slumber.
Film
29e
Interurbain
Marc-Olivier Huard
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Philippe-Belley Award winning film offered by Hydro-Québec and La Bande Sonimage

Interurbain delves into a mother’s emotional void as she grapples with the geographical distance and the absence of her son.
Film
29e
Juste un toit
Emmanuel Rioux
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Special Mention of the Canadian Grand Prize

The housing crisis had many faces. Those of Jeannette and Frances drive us into the difficult experience of eviction. During many months of anxiety, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances fight, alone and surrounded, against a growing phenomenon: the forced loss of one’s home.
Film
29e
Hoofs on skates
Ignas Meilunas
Lithuania, Animation
In a winter wonderland two friends are having a blast ice-skating on a frozen lake when suddenly a strange and unfamiliar world cracks open underneath them. Now they must learn how to deal with the other kind, not letting the fear and preconceptions rule.
Film
29e
L'Ourse et l'Oiseau
Marie CAUDRY
France, Animation
In the North, winter is approaching. Bear thinks of her friend Bird who migrated south. Instead of hibernating like she does every year, she decides to travel the world to join him.
Film
29e
L'avant-dernière fois que j'ai fait caca dans mes culottes
Sébastien Landry
Canada (Quebec), Animation
On a sunny day, enjoying burgers and swimming seemed perfect for young Seb... until a dreadful stomach ache turned everything upside down.