Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Extras
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
EXT. DAY - A sunny Sunday morning on a café terrace: Isabelle, an actor whose career is in a rut, meets Johanne, her agent, who might have a new part for her. Tension mounts both at the table and in the surroundings. Will expectations be met?
Film
28e
Furet
Genevieve Neron & Colin Nixon
Canada (Quebec),
Ferret, a guy who gets his nickname from escaping debt collectors, arrives at the Piccolo bar for his first shift. Leather booths, live jazz singer, exotic cocktails : the type of place that appeals to him... that's why he doesn't really want to work there, but rob the the establishment's safe!
Film
28e
Goddess of Speed
Frédéric Moffet
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
A film titled Dance Movie (or, alternatively, Rollerskate) appears in many Warhol filmographies, but no work with this title has been found in the archive. The lost film, starring dancer Fred Herko, was shot in 1963. A year later, Herko leaped out of an open window while dancing to Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C Major. Inspired by descriptions of the missing film, Goddess of Speed poetically reimagines the last days of the young performer.
Film
28e
Hello Stranger
Amélie Hardy
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the story of her gender reassignment journey. Piecing together her memories, from her childhood in a small fishing village through her tumultuous medical process, Cooper attempts to make peace with the last male imprint remaining on her body: that annoying deep voice that sticks to her skin.
Film
28e
I Used to Live There
Ryan Mckenna
Canada (Quebec),
Dan is losing his vision, and Monika just got out of a long relationship. They come together at a rented studio for a brief photo shoot. Dan takes her headshot, and Monika gives him a loaf of bread.
Film
28e
Ilnikueu
Comité De femmes Puakuteu
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Testimonials from the women’s group at Mashteuiatsh Puakuteu fill this intimate short film about grief and healing. In doll-making workshops, the women share their doubts and hopes and, in doing so, build a space of strength and solidarity.
Film
28e
Juste un toit
Emmanuel Rioux
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The housing crisis had many faces. Those of Jeannette and Frances drive us into the difficult experience of eviction. During many months of anxiety, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances fight, alone and surrounded, against a growing phenomenon: the forced loss of one’s home.
Film
28e
L'Esquisse
Cali Tomas
France, Documentary
Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I meet Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.
Film
28e
L'artifice
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Kim and Billy work at carnivals. This summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment. We always dream of elsewhere.
Film
28e
La fille au béret rouge
Janet Perlman
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A girl takes a ride on the Montreal metro, which becomes the unlikely venue for a strange and wonderful musical journey.