Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Le temps des orages
Gabrielle Gingras
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Gabrielle spends every summer at the lake with her family. While her brother and sisters are enjoying the last days of summer, the youngest hides away inside, too afraid of the sun and the potential storms. Despite her best efforts, Gabrielle will be exposed to some brutal weather. With the support of her caring family, the young girl will gradually find the courage to face her biggest fears.
Film
28e
Les fleurs sauvages
Rodolphe Saint-Gelais & Thierry Sirois
Canada (Quebec),
In a detailed voicemail, a man explains how to use the old lawn tractor to mow the grass on his land without unbalancing the garden.
Film
28e
Les mains sales
Julien G. Marcotte & Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Canada (Quebec),
Film
28e
Les yeux bandés
Jimmy G. Pettigrew & Geneviève Chartrand
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
At the end of his shift, a cook from a small diner downton receives the weekly visit of its potato delivery man. But a mistake in the order sparks a gastronomic and passionate meeting.
Film
28e
Madeleine
Raquel Sancinetti
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
FIPRESCI International Critics' Award winning film

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.
Film
28e
Marie
Jan B. Piskac
Czech Republic, Animation
During the monotonous lesson, Frantisek dives into the depths of his imagination and loses himself in the drawings on the pages of his notebook. However, the deeper he gets into his world, the more burning thoughts about his classmate Maria.
Film
28e
Marée noire
Chantal Caron
Canada (Quebec),
Sumber Tides is a cry from the species, a surge of survival in the face of the elements. A last breath of life before being swept away by the Earth, or perhaps conversely, a fight to hold on against all odds before extinction.
Film
28e
Motherland
Jasmin Mozaffari
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
In 1979, at the height of the Iran Hostage crisis, Babak goes on a trip to meet his fiancé’s parents and ends up confronting the realities of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in a patriotic post-Vietnam America.
Film
28e
Mothers & Monsters
Edith Jorisch
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet. Orchestrated by the host-mother, the banquet is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world? Mothers and Monsters is a surrealist satire about modern-day maternity and the ideal of the family at a time where capitalism has reached its apex.
Film
28e
My name is Edgar and I have a cow
Filip DIVIAK
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Animation
Edgar’s ordinary life is disrupted by a newborn calf he sees on a tourist trip to a slaughterhouse.