Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
21e
La tempête du siècle
Renaud Gauthier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Winter 1971, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The storm is raging and, although the holiday shopping is in full swing, the snowy sidewalks are deserted on this Thursday, December 23th, pay day. A few cigarette butts accumulate on the icy roadway, next to the door of an old black Pontiac that drones in the blowing snow ...
Film
21e
La vie commence
Émile Proulx-Cloutier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The twenty-four hours who will turn upside down the life of a teenager and his older brother. The two of them having always stayed together, in heart of a gray suburb, without really knowing each others.
Film
21e
La voyante
Alexandre Auger & Alexis Fortier Gauthier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A medium receives three clients who came to talk about their problems. She's trying to help them as best as she can.
Film
21e
Le Hibou-roc de Riopelle
Philippe Arsenault
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Between an art film and the conventional documentary, this short brings to life all the stages of the casting of art as they are practiced nowadays in some foundries of North America, a lesser known aspect of the techniques tackled by Riopelle, a multidisciplinary artist.
Film
21e
Le bruit du gris
Vincent Patar & Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar
Belgium, Animation
A still frame, the hallway of the gray, dull house of Horse, Cowboy and Indian. Cowboy and his crazy stooges fill the place, giving it life and color. Until a troublemaker enters and ruins everything…
Film
21e
Le bulbe tragique
Guillaume Vallée
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Ephemeral traces of nothingness. Rotoscoping farmers, scrumbling churches, dying memories as hand-painted layers, decay & collage on film emulsion as incidental traces of nothingness. A work that is aware of his own mecanism.
Film
21e
Le cri de la marmotte
Colin Nixon
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Léo and Madeleine leave the house they built following a conflict with a grounhog.
Film
21e
Le dernier mardi
Fanny Mallette
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Two women. Everything dividing them. With patience, one is waiting for death to come. The other waits for her life to begin. Every Tuesday, the elder welcomes the young woman into her home. Two paths crossing without merging. Every Tuesday. Up until the last.
Film
21e
Le débroussailleur
Nicolas Lévesque
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Latitude : 50° 24’ 19.8 » N / Longitude : 72° 46’ 13.8 » W Originally from Russia, Ramis has lived in Quebec with his family for 8 years. The 55-year-old man found work as a brush cutter, a profession practiced by many Russian-speaking immigrants like him. At Camp Nokamik, he is welcomed for his first day of work, which promises a summer of hard work.
Film
21e
Le goût du Vietnam
Pier-Luc Latulippe
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Chloé has to come back home. Arnaud wants to make her last night a memorable night.