Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
18e
La Reine du sébaste et son royaume
Philippe Belley
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
La Reine du sébaste a dû retirer ses lignes des eaux de la majestueuse rivière Saguenay. Même si les pêches ne sont plus mémorables dans son royaume, d’autres pêcheurs installent toujours leur cabane. Perpétuant une tradition bien installée, ils recherchent autant le poisson que le désennui.
Film
18e
La Répétition
Carl-Antonyn Dufault
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Can a set of thousands of carefully synchronized gestures and movement be used to recreate an overall choreography? And a whole be the mirror of its details?
Film
18e
La Table
Izabel Grondin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A man goes to a potential employer's house one evening, only to find out that the job started as soon as he got in the house...
Film
18e
La Tête en bas
Maxime Giroux
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Head Down casts an atypical view on the solitude, melancholy and marginality in the daily life of three girls.
Film
18e
La dame aux poupées
Denys Desjardins
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Offering a candid glimpse into her reality, a tailored universe she shares with over 400 dolls displayed in her two-story cottage, to know Mrs. Boudreault is to know her dolls. Her "children" give her free rein to dream and explore her fantasies, a gift some of her entourage linkens to a folly..
Film
18e
La marche de Jacob
Benoit Le Rouzès & Jean-François Carier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Jacob walks here and there through change of paces.
Film
18e
La tonsure
Marie-Pier Ottawa
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
A stormy day. A simple gesture that connects with the past. A startling film.
Film
18e
Lapse of time
Céline Tricart
France, Experimentation
On a winter afternoon, in the course of a hide and seek game, a kid finds shelter in the most unlikely of places : the huge astronomically-tuned clock of the city's cathedral! Sneaking his way through, he accidentally gets his jacket stuck into the mechanism blocking the entire system... and of time itself!
Film
18e
Las Moscas
Alejandro Ponce De Leon Pagaza
Mexico, Experimentation
In the recently inaugurate main street, neighbors are whispering about Gabriel Jurado's obsession. Gabriel, finds on those fluttering flies his reason, his happiness.
Film
18e
Le chant des cabanes
Philippe David Gagné
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The bay has finally iced and the ice fishing season begins. This is Pepiche's favorite moment of the year. He'll be fishing capelins all winter, along with his dog Ernest. If all goes well.