Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Krush The Wrestler
Alex Megaro
United States, Documentary
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
Film
28e
L'Envoyée de Dieu
Amina Mamani Abdoulaye
Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Niger, Fiction
Here, God's envoy is chosen by chance and is subjected to funeral rites. Fatima, 12, laid in a market, wearing an explosive belt activated 10 minutes to kill Allah's enemies. For 9 minutes, it is an inner jounrey during which, she goes from the present to the past. Fatima remembers that her mother sells in this market.
Film
28e
L'Esquisse
Cali Tomas
France, Documentary
Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I meet Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.
Film
28e
L'artifice
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Kim and Billy work at carnivals. This summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment. We always dream of elsewhere.
Film
28e
La Perra
Carla Melo Gampert
France, Colombia, Animation
Being a daughter, being a mother, becoming a woman.
Film
28e
La Timidité des Cimes
Loup-William Théberge
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
« The Crown Shyness » is a dance short film about a man’s introspective gaze at his artistic identity.
Film
28e
La distance entre le ciel et nous
Vasilis Kekatos
France, Greece, Fiction
Night, national road. Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking the 22.50€ he needs to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
Film
28e
La fille au béret rouge
Janet Perlman
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A girl takes a ride on the Montreal metro, which becomes the unlikely venue for a strange and wonderful musical journey.
Film
28e
La goddam voie lactée
Jérémie Battaglia & Mélanie Demers
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
From the depths of the Earth to the dunes of an unknown desert, a group of women embark on an initiatory journey. A pagan mass, a quest, or a common elevation, The Goddam Milky Way celebrates femininity in all its roughness and complexity.
Film
28e
La pâquerette-raclette
Liselotte Macagno
France, Animation
Claude want to see the cheddar daisy, which can only be found at the top of the Pic-Odon.