Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
27e
File Under Miscellaneous
Jeff Barnaby
Canada (Quebec),
A spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture: he visits a surgical clinic to undergo a procedure to rid himself of his red skin.
Film
27e
Fire-Jo-Ball
Audrey Nantel-Gagnon
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Jo-Ann, a 57-year-old bartender, wants to be a singer and actress. Oscillating between spectacular and intimate, between extra and ordinary, Jo-Ann uses her daily life to stage her dream role.
FIRE-JO-BALL paints the portrait of a woman who loves all things rosy even if her life isn’t always so.
Film
27e
Flood
Amanda Strong & Bracken Hanuse Corlett
Canada (Unceded Territories), Animation
A young woman, guided by Spider Woman, must overcome colonial history and education to find herself.
Film
27e
Florent Vollant : Je rêve en innu
Nicolas Renaud
Canada (Quebec),
The soul of the Innu language is the land, water and forests of the fast-disappearing caribou. Through his music, Florent Vollant continues to make this language heard around the world.
Film
27e
Forever now
Kristian Håskjold
Denmark, Fiction
After several years together, William and Cecilie break up. The same night, to treat the sorrow with love, they decide to do the drug MDMA together. For better or worse, this results in an emotional rollercoaster ride over a whole weekend as the two are isolated together in their apartment.
Film
27e
Four Pills at Night
Leart Rama
Kosovo, Switzerland, Fiction
With a film to shoot in the near future, a director develops something more than a professional bond with his actor. When they go together to a rave party, things take an unexpected turn. Delusion or truth, the two end up with no answers.

Film
27e
Generation Impact: The Coder
Samantha Knowles
United States, Documentary
Jay Jay Patton was only 13 when she designed and built Photo Patch, a mobile app to help kids send photos and letters to parents who are incarcerated. The app was inspired by Jay Jay’s own experience; her dad was in prison for five years and it was difficult to communicate with him as much as she wanted.

Film
27e
Gewesen sein wird
Sasha Pirker
Austria, Experimentation
The film is a poetic ramble through the apartment of Heinz Frank, Viennese artist and architect, who transformed his apartment into a work of art during his lifetime. His daughter Lilli Breuer has been fighting for the preservation of this little treasure since his death.
Film
27e
HARVEY
Janice Nadeau
France, Canada (Quebec), Animation
For Harvey, this spring will be the most significant of his life, as it is the season his father will disappear.
Film
27e
HIStory
James Pakootas
United States, Experimentation
A captivating spoken word piece poetically displaying the historical traumas of Indigenous peoples through the lens of a Native American.