Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
20e
Son In The Barbershop
Nathan Douglas
Canada (British Columbia), -, Fiction
A teenager overhears a phone call and inserts himself into the father-son story behind it. As this strange 'conversation' develops, two separately wounded lives slowly wind into a double helix of pain, regret, and filial love.
Film
20e
Sonámbulo
Theodore Ushev
Canada (Quebec), Animation
With the shade around her waist / she dreams on her balcony, […] Under the gypsy moon, / all things are watching her / and she cannot see them. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.
Film
20e
Sparky Ketchup
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Canada (Quebec), Animation
An animated documentary about a memorable event: in spring 1997, a coloring contest is launched for the release of a new variety of ketchup.
Film
20e
Spoetnik
Noël Loozen
Netherlands, Fiction
Sam crashes his moped just over the Dutch border in Wallonia. There he meets Gilles and his old fashioned food-truck, who is in danger of losing his license. Gilles embraces Sam and puts him to work. Meanwhile Sam falls in love with Zola.
Film
20e
Spruce Bleach
Étienne Boulanger & Étienne Boulanger
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
A field, in acquisition process by a consortium, comes across an excerpts from Yves Klein book, Manifeste de l’hôtel Chelsea, “And if one day emptiness violently struck another emptiness, would we be propelled towards the infinite or would we come back where we came from?
Film
20e
Squame
Nicolas Brault
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Squame explores the sensitive shell of the body, the skin. The animation of his ephemeral peeling, made with sugar casts evokes fragile landscapes opening on worlds on the edge of abstraction. 
Film
20e
Star
Emilie Mannering
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Star follows the path of Tito and Jay, two brothers living in the Montreal neighborhood of Park-Extension. Accompanying these young people in their daily life marked by complicity and intimidation, Star tackles themes dear to teenagers: identity and friendship.
Film
20e
String Quartet
Poland, Animation
Film
20e
Subotika – Land of Wonders
Peter Volkart
Switzerland, Fiction
Subotika, a little-known island on the other side of the globe. Endeavouring to step up tourism in the Republic, the Foreign Minister commissions an advertising movie. A country with extraordinary sights. Book right now! Subotika, the holiday destination that lives up to its promises.
Film
20e
Sweet Cocoon
Matéo Bernard & Matthias Bruget & Jonathan Duret & Manon Marco & Quentin Puiraveau
France, Animation
A journey with many pitfalls which reflect, not without poetry, the cruelty of the animal world.  A caterpillar failing desperately to get in her cocoon meets two soon to be companions, a cockroach and a weevil that will help her achieve her metamorphosis.