Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
26e
Sikiitu
Gabriel Allard
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Ali, a teenage Inuit hip hop fan, lives in Ivujivik, a small Arctic village where nothing interests him. All of his problems seem to materialize in his father's old snowmobile, constantly breaking down. His only way out ? The famous Rich E. Murdoch, Ali’s favorite rapper.
Film
26e
Simbiosis Carnal
Rocio Alvarez
Belgium, Animation
A poetic journey through the history of desire and sexuality, from the first unicellular organism to human beings, who invent the calculated pleasure: eroticism. A story plagued by moral conflicts, in which the female pleasure was long ignored and repressed takes pride of place, and which culminates in an explosive finale.
Film
26e
Soft Animals
Renee Zhan
United Kingdom, Animation
Two ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station.
Film
26e
Soudure symphonique
Gabriel Fortin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Soudure symphonique metaphorically reunites two worlds at their antipodes: classical music and working-class environments. By joining Tchaikovsky to industrial welding, this short film offers a poetic glance on orchestra conducting, transforming it into a symphony of sparkles.
Film
26e
Sparkles
Jacqueline Pelczar
Australia, Fiction
A 30-something-year-old Down syndrome woman leaves her past behind, and runs away from a small country town, heading towards the city. Along her journey, she makes an unlikely friendship with an Outback Drag Queen, teaching us all not to be afraid to celebrate who we are.
Film
26e
Squad Leader TD-73028 Soliloquy
Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Star Wars meets Shakespeare. Hamlet's famous soliloquy is presented as the inner voice of a Stormtrooper, demonstrating the way Shakespeare's language still echoes down to us through the centuries and remains as relevant today as ever - not to mention as well in a galaxy far, far away?
Film
26e
Starfuckers
Antonio Marziale
United States, Fiction
Starfuckers examines power dynamics in Hollywood, and celebrates the art of drag and how it can be used to create an alternative reality for oneself. Drag has always been used as a creative tool for people who don’t feel like they fit in to express themselves, and there is a wide range of performances to take inspiration from.
Film
26e
Suzanne & Chantal
Rachel Graton
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Chantal (60 years old) picks up Suzanne (92 years old) to go to the hair salon where she works. Once there, Chantal is intercepted by her boss who asks her to give him what she owes him. But this week, she has no money for him... This week, she has a surprise for him.
Film
26e
Temps de cochon
Emmanuelle Gorgiard
France, Animation
The rain invited itself in the field of the Horn Quartet.
Marguerite, Aglaé, Clarisse and Rosine are huddled together under the shelter and
are angry at the bad weather. When it rains, it's impossible to have fun!
But impossible is not Charly!
Film
26e
The Bugs and the Slugs
Greyson Horst
United States, Fiction
The Bugs and the Slugs is an NYU Thesis Film that chronicles sexual discovery through the eyes of an orphaned human boy in a village of trolls. We are using fantasy to explore periods of isolation and self-acceptance at a vulnerable time in life.