Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Wander to Wonder
Nina Gantz
Netherlands, Animation
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator of the series has died, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
Film
28e
What The Soil Remembers
José Cardoso
South Africa, Ecuador, Documentary
"What the Soil Remembers," examines the trauma of a community uprooted during the Apartheid regime, making way for an educational institution that would become synonymous with the foundation of white supremacist ideologies. The film follows a group of elders who illuminate the screen with their approach to the problem. The collective wisdom and patience embedded in their actions is what a nationalist regime tried to violently take away from them years earlier.
Film
28e
Where Motion Has Not Yet Ceased
Juliette Balthazard
Czech Republic, Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Prague, 2022 - Having found refuge from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, two women and their young daughters face the waiting and hope of an imminent return to Ukraine. Shelved in this city, these women tell the story of their past and give access to their daily life, their present, in which they try to learn how to live again.

This documentary tries to give a voice to those who live war differently.
Film
28e
Window
Line Pillet
Belgium, Fiction
Window shows a day in the life of window cleaner, Sam, who arrives at a residential block in Brussels with no windows. In her search for the missing windows, she meets characters who confront her with herself and her loneliness. Gently, she breaks through her isolation and starts to interact with others.
Film
28e
Woman
Gilnaz Arzpeyma & Arash Akhgari
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Woman is the first part of a trilogy that engages with the Iranian feminist revolution from the vantage point of diaspora. Through documentary media showcasing protesters on the streets, the film presents their civil disobedience as a collective performance, and explores the emerging narrative for woman, life and freedom.
Film
28e
Y pour Yogourt
Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet
, Fiction
" Riche. Onctueux. Délicueux ! "
Film
28e
You Make Me Weak at the Knees
Joseph Wilson
England, Documentary
A confessional portrait of the highs and lows of open relationships
A war between the body and mind wages on in this visual narrative of a couple’s attempt to navigate their polyamorous relationship. You Make Me Weak At The Knees explores an often overlooked and undiscussed reality for couples who have multiple intimate relationships at once—and the sense of triumph, freedom, insecurity and pain that goes with it.
Film
28e
À toi les oreilles
Alexandre Isabelle
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
While the townsfolk are celebrating the village's anniversary parade, Étienne tries the impossible: to show them how beautiful his family’s cacophony really is.
Film
28e
Été 2000
Virginie Nolin & Laurence Olivier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
9 year-old Sarah is quietly discovering love when an assault derails her sexual awakening. Summer 2000 is an intimate and delicate tale in which the play between different mediums offers an insight into gender performativity and consent.
Film
28e
Été 96
Mathilde Bédouet
France, Animation
The eternal « August 15 picnic » on Callot Island. But this year, Paul, his family and their friends find themselves trapped by the tide. Paul, upset, stuck between the world of adults and that of children, becomes aware of his individuality.