Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Sisters
Marisa Hoicka
Canada (Ontario), Experimentation
Sisters run wild when an incident unveils how their paths will diverge. This ethereal film, created using archival footage, composes a fresh narrative that eerily subverts expectations.
Film
28e
Smooth Motion
Mitchell Stafiej
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A die-hard film enthusiast leads a campaign against one of cinema's greatest enemies: motion smoothing.
Film
28e
Sombras Nada Más
Kathy Mitrani
United States, Colombia, Fiction
On the anniversary of Marisol’s husband’s death, her neighbor’s construction team uncovers human remains. The coincidence of this discovery terrorizes Marisol, a superstitious visionary, and forces her to face her mortality.
Film
28e
Someone's trying to get in
Colin Nixon
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Bertrand, a Haitian asylum seeker, flees an immigration camp by the border to head in the direction of an isolated house owned by Jessy, a paranoid blue-collar worker.
Film
28e
Stance
Joseph Wilson
England, Experimentation
Stance... drag queen boxing, drag queen endurance, drag is a non-contact sport, so it's a kind of parody, no pain, no glory... the courage to be yourself and appropriate typically masculine spaces with queerness and femininity.
Film
28e
Starlight Sojourn
Darcy Tara McDiarmid & Chantal Rousseau
Canada (Yukon), Animation
This animation, which is inspired by ancient Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices, features fish, birds, and animals majestically traversing a dreamlike night-time landscape in the Yukon under starlight. At times the animals convey a sorrowful transition between our world and the spirit world, which reflects upon the current state of species diversity risk and loss.
Film
28e
Steve le film
Sam Proulx & Cédric Senécal
, Fiction
" Faique, checkez ! C'est ça ma trouvaille. Y'en a peut-être qui vont dire que y'er pas si pire mais ... SIFFLE, SIFLFLE. Y marche encore ! "
Film
28e
Summer Love
Virgile Ratelle
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
On the banks of an abandoned quarry, couples confront their love before taking a dip.
Film
28e
Sunflower Girl
Holly M. Kaplan
United States, Fiction
When a 13-year-old Chinese American girl has the opportunity to go skateboarding with her crush, it comes at the cost of abandoning her little sister.
Film
28e
Sylvie en liberté
Sara Bourdeau
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Sylvie’s out of jail and back in town.