Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
29e
World at Stake
Susanna Flock & Adrian Jonas Haim & Jona Kleinlein
Austria, Experimentation
Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
Film
29e
Wâhkôhtowin | All My Relations
Barry Bilinsky
Unceded territories Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Animation
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee. This short is exhibited at the Indigenous Peoples Experience cultural centre in Fort Edmonton Park.
Film
29e
You can't get what you want but you can get me
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh
Finland, Netherlands, Experimentation
A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.
Film
29e
À l'aube
Anaë Bilodeau / Louis-Pierre Cossette
Canada (Quebec), Animation
Wake up with three inhabitants in a megalopolis of mismatched architecture. Through this moment of solitude, we discover the simple pleasures of awakening the senses.
Film
29e
Ça va finir par finir
Nancy Pettinicchio
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a queer fashion designer living in Montréal, takes us into their artistic world to speak about their HIV diagnosis and the process of acceptance that led them to reach out to the HIV-positive community. IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV activism in Quebec.
Film
29e
0004ngel
Eli Jean Tahchi
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Angel, a nude dancer, finds a new stage online to support his mother in Mexico.
Film
29e
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Film
29e
A Body Called Life
Spencer MacDonald
United States, Poland, Switzerland, Documentary
A self-isolated young human known as "James" delves into the hidden world of microscopic organisms, forging a tender connection with these nearly invisible creatures and developing a massive online following, as he seeks to understand his own place in the cosmos and accept the scars of his past.

'A Body Called Life' is a film made in collaboration with James (@jam_and_germs), with a screenplay adapted from the verbatim Instagram posts of James, starring James as James, and featuring a charming score by Dan Deacon.
Film
29e
A Dying Tree
Vincent René-Lortie
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
As the day ends for a 45-year-old office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.
Film
29e
A Menina com os Olhos Ocupados
André Carrilho
Portugal, Animation
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was always distracted. Her eyes fixed on her phone, she didn't notice the world around her, or even the friends approaching to play. Until one day, the phone slips out of her hand and breaks.