Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
Lizzy and Seyyah
Kristian Petersen
Germany,
The backstage of sex work, asking the question of who can be excluded from it and why, and at the same time showing extraordinary tenderness and care.
Film
29e
Los Carpinchos
Soderguit Alfredo
Chile, France, Uruguay, Animation
Special mention of the Best Yought short film Award.

Hunting season has begun. A family of capybaras seek refuge in a chicken coop, but the hens don't trust them. The curiosity of the youngest members of the families will create a union with unexpected consequences.…
Film
29e
Luc je suis ton père
François Bégin
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
An anxious filmmaker apprehends the reception of his film.
Film
29e
Ma soeur
Rosalie Pelletier
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Shoot No Matter What Award winning film offerd by École supérieure en Art et technologie des médias, PRIM and Spira

My Sister addresses the underlying tensions between two sisters. After their recent reunion, the narrator documents her adoptive sister's 18th birthday through various stops on the road. We slowly discover their private hang-ups and divergent paths to adulthood.
Film
29e
Madone
Rosalie Bordeleau
Canada (Quebec),
Film
29e
Malody
Phillip Barker
Canada (Ontario), Experimentation
Malody sits with her father in a roadside diner. The restaurant is inside a big wooden wheel. She sees herself as a little girl in a mirror. The little girl enters and turns the restaurant upside down. Malody dies. Her father goes fishing. Malody is brought back to life by the little girl. They eat a bird.
Film
29e
Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in black)
Matthew Thorne & Derik Lynch
Australia, Other
Alanis-Obomsawin Award winning film offered by le Fonds des médias du Canada

Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) follows Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch's road trip back to Country for spiritual healing, as memories from his childhood return. A journey from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide, back home to his remote Anangu Community (Aputula) to perform on sacred Inma ground.

Inma is a traditional form of storytelling using the visual, verbal, and physical. It is how Anangu Tjukurpa (story connected to country / dreaming / myth / lore) have been passed down for over 60,000+ years from generation to generation.
Film
29e
Mercenaire
Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Hired at a slaughterhouse thanks to a social reinsertion program, an ex-convict struggles to find another job while repressing the violence that boils within him.

Trigger Warning : Sensitive Content
Film
29e
Meryem
Reber Dosky
Netherlands, Documentary
Meet commander Meryem, one of the Kurdish fighters against IS trying to reconquer Kobani. A look into the life of the female fighters who are playing a crucial part in this battle.
Film
29e
Mes murs-mémoire
Axel Robin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Rose G. Lévesque, an almost nonagenarian painter and poet, painted the story of her life on her house's walls to transform it into a museum.