Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
19e
Ross and Beth
Hamish Bennett
New Zealand, Fiction
Ross and Beth is the story of a humble New Zealand farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.
Film
19e
Rotor
Guillaume Cyr
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The rotor is the part of a mechanism that allows it to rotate. Considering society as a large machine that runs non-stop, Rotor the film is a portrait of the burning flame that everyone carries within themselves, their fears, frustrations, sorrows and love.
Film
19e
S
Richárd Hajdú
United Kingdom, Mockumentary
Set in London, a raw and uncompromising docudrama about an Eastern-European sex worker and her pimp. A politically and socially conscious account of one of the most worrying phenomena in 21st-century Europe, it concentrates on two individuals and their soul-killing love-hate relationship.
Film
19e
Sabres
Pascal Picard & Ganaël Dumontier
Canada (Quebec), Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
The meeting between the I, the ego and the superego inside the concept of subtraction between painting, sound and video. Erasure. Subtraction. Deletion.
Film
19e
Saccage
Marianne Farley
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Loïc is fourteen and as a teenager he wants to experience strong emotions and sensations. In his attempt to be part of a gang, he doesn’t hesitate to follow his friends into burglarizing a home in their neighbourhood. At a turning point, their adventure offers Loïc an opportunity to make a life-changing choice.
Film
19e
Sem coração
Nara Normande & Bruno Bezerra
Brazil, Fiction
Leo goes on vacation at his cousin’s, in a fishing village. There, he meets a girl who goes by the nickname Heartless.
Film
19e
Ser e voltar
Xacio Baño
Spain, Documentary
A young filmmaker comes back to his grandparents’ house to make a video-portrait. That’s what cinema is about, isn’t it?
Film
19e
Seven Boats
Hlynur Pálmason
Iceland, Denmark, Experimentation
We are out in the open sea. A man is in the ocean fighting for his life. He is surrounded by seven boats.
Film
19e
Skyworld
Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
A broken-hearted woman moves home to rebuild her life and give her young son roots through language and family.
Film
19e
Smile, and The World Will Smile Back
Yoav Gross & Al-Haddad Family & Ehab Tarabieh
Israel, Documentary
One cold December night, Israeli soldiers come to the Pales- tinian family home in Hebron and knock on the door. They’ve come to search the house. The teenage son reaches for the family’s video camera. As the search unfolds, a strange power struggle evolves, pitting gun against camera.