Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
La petite ancêtre
Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur
Canada (Quebec), Animation
On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house is built by itself. The house comes to life and reveals its one hundred and fifty-year-long lifes. Brick by brick and beam by beam, each action, big or small, shows life. Through the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the heart of a growing and buzzing city that will eventually bring about its end.
Film
29e
Le Pouillaouin
Katia Kurtness & Carolyne Kurtness
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Their first time working together on an art project, Katia and Carolyne were accompanied by Carolyne’s eight-year-old granddaughter, Aria, to share a story told by their father, Raymond. Aria’s bold pencil strokes bring to life the characters of a louse and a flea, who go on an adventure in the fur of a young beaver called "Pouillaouin".
Film
29e
Le Punk de Natashquan
Nicolas Lachapelle
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The arrival of a stranger in Natashquan marks the beginning of an unlikely love story between the small fishing community and the young man, a story that will come to an abrupt end five years later with his mysterious disappearance.
Film
29e
Le Tunnel de la nuit
Annechien Strouven
France, Belgium, Animation
After digging a tunnel on the beach, two kids from different sides of the world meet each other. Together, they dig their way to the North Pole, where they discover a magical way to go back home.
Film
29e
Le grand party annuel des créatures de la Lune
Francis Desharnais
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Humans have finally left the moon! LET'S PARTY! A cheerful film created on a pinscreen.
Film
29e
Le matelot volant
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A sailor takes a sudden and unexpected voyage.
Film
29e
Les Bottes de la Nuit
Pierre-Luc Granjon
France, Animation
While his parents are entertaining friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night
into the undergrowth, rubber boots on his feet. There, a little creature, curious and solitary,
takes him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal inhabitants that live there.
Film
29e
Les petits monstres
Pablo Leridon
France, Fiction
Today, visually impaired teenager Erwan can't wait to get to school to declare his love for Agathe. Unfortunately, he first has to share a medical transport van with David, a wheelchair-bound suck-up, who tries everyday to make friends with Erwan, quite unsuccesfully. When David tries to make sure they never arrive, war is declared.
Film
29e
Lethal Ethel
Elayna Einish
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Blending horror and humour, Lethal Ethel is an unique mockumentary that follows the story of a Naskapi vampire who goes to murderous lengths to protect her land and her culture.
Film
29e
Liberté Egalité Sagacité
Jessamine Fok
Canada (Ontario), Argentina, Experimentation
SAHARA is a story of African diaspora, reconnection, and finding power within your own origin story.

In a dystopian land that is barren and dry, people live and work for the resource that powers our technological progress - cobalt. The film represents what our world might look like if we continue progress for the sake of progress. As we move through the film, dialogue and imagery touch on themes of creation, origin stories, and how we can turn back to our cultural roots to find power within ourselves, rather than from new materialistic ideals. We end on images of the people, united together, dancing together around a fire, riding away from the arid wasteland, showing strength by uniting with their inner power and knowledge that already exist within their cultural roots.