March 13th
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Short Iphone documentary made during a roofing season in Vancouver. Brief incursion in the life of "Québecois" doing this hard work in a fast growing city.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
The hour is late. The night sky is pitch black. But still, Didier must attend his cow.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
In Kennesaw, a small American town in the state of Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen. By law, since 1982, each head of household must own at least one working firearm with ammunition.
Bydlo
Patrick Bouchard ¬  06 m 43 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
In Bydlo, inspired by Mussorgskyʼs music, Patrick Bouchard imagines a mighty ox emerging from the damp earth only to be devoured by the greed and rage of mankind.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
At 2:32pm, the sun will die. Luckily, Lucas, 14, and his family have a place in an underground safe haven, unlike the family of Salomé, his girlfriend. With the last of the sunʼs rays, Lucas will try to photograph Salomé in natural light, in the spirit of Helmut Newton, his intellectual guide.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
In front of a convenience store, two girls await their father in the car.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
A cheerleader. An audience.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Saguenay's evening
18:00:00
Exercice in style about a moving body.
March 14th
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
Dozens of emigrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal: conquer fortress Europe. When they arrive there after an exhausting journey, the confrontation with another brutal reality awaits them: the European handling of refugees.
Henry
Yan England ¬  21 m 00 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
Henry, an elderly concert pianist, undergoes a series of confusing experiences as he searches for his wife. He will finally discover the inevitable verdict of life.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
Two best friends, a charismatic street urchin, and a defiant blacksmith's son, who strive to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
Nothing like an avenging robot elephant to start off the weekend.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
This fascinating and shocking animated short follows director PES as he turns ordinary objects into Guacamole.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
Clara's lives a quiet and solitary life, much to the chagrin of her family who wishes she would find someone to grow old with. Upon the
sudden death of her aunt, Clara inherits her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but revealing friendship.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
A crazy, irresistible, intense, spectacular car chase between police and four unlikely accomplices.
Bydlo
Patrick Bouchard ¬  06 m 43 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
In Bydlo, inspired by Mussorgskyʼs music, Patrick Bouchard imagines a mighty ox emerging from the damp earth only to be devoured by the greed and rage of mankind.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
High school session
09:15:00
After witnessing a neighbour's embarrassing antics, a bored family man is eager to report the story back to his office chums but the paranoid neighbour hatches a drastic, bizarre plan to silence him.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
A young woman on a springboard hesitates... Will she jump? What hold her back ? She jumps. Phew! Itʼs done, letʼs drop it. Until…
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
Dozens of emigrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal: conquer fortress Europe. When they arrive there after an exhausting journey, the confrontation with another brutal reality awaits them: the European handling of refugees.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
A depressed little orange is quiting its crate to land in its neighborhood, a band of merry pineapple dancers .
Paal
Christoph Müller ¬  22 m 00 s
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
“Paal” tells the story of Memo, a Mayan child, whose biggest dream is to tell the stories of his people. Through his own vision and fantasy, we explore the everyday life and culture of his village, and the exuberant nature of Yucatanʼs jungle in the south of Mexico.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
Sophie lives with her mother in will play the violin in the school concert. With normal children. Sophie is not like the others, but, exceptionally, she will be among them.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
Carelessness of a peaceful life on the family farm. A cold and bright Winter. Noémy nine year-old, her first steps out of childhood.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
Nothing like an avenging robot elephant to start off the weekend.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
Max x.ʼ tries out his new digital camera. But, surprise, surprise, things don't go as planned.
Snap
Thomas G. Murphy ¬  7 m 00 s
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
The Water haggis live an idyllic life in its beautiful underwater cavern. Sadly, for a young haggis called Snap, life isn't so idyllic. But when he meets a cool frog called Freddie, Snap makes an unlikely new friend.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
This fascinating and shocking animated short follows director PES as he turns ordinary objects into Guacamole.
Salle Pierrette-Gaudreault
Elementary school session
09:15:00
Joey is a clumsy bluebeakbird that lives in the jungle of Puerto d'Azu. Because of his small wings he can't fly. When he finds the love of his life at the top of a tree he has to be inventive.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
Hazel
Tamer Ruggli ¬  8 m 10 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
An obsessive mother, on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A father, carefully blotted out from all the family photos and a dreadful child psychiatrist with unconventional methods. This is the summary of young Hazelʼs life, secretly attracted to boys…
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
Two best friends, a charismatic street urchin, and a defiant blacksmith's son, who strive to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
Clara's lives a quiet and solitary life, much to the chagrin of her family who wishes she would find someone to grow old with. Upon the
sudden death of her aunt, Clara inherits her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but revealing friendship.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
At the bedside of his dying friend, a man recalls their shared memories, some funny, others heavy with emotion, and for a backdrop, the St. Lawrence River, the rain and the wind ...
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
Manuel is unhappy. He is trapped in a monotonous job and his family does not care much for him. Then the doctor tells him he suffers from a peculiar illness: he is transforming into an elephant.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 1
19:30:00
After witnessing a neighbour's embarrassing antics, a bored family man is eager to report the story back to his office chums but the paranoid neighbour hatches a drastic, bizarre plan to silence him.
Hotel
Jose Luis Alemán ¬  11 m 20 s
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
An exhausted man walks through the desert. The sun seems to melt the image. The man can barely walk, hungry and thirsty. Defeated, he drops down. Between the heat and blazing sun, he catches a glimpse of an hotel.
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
A boy celebrates his first double-digit birthday with his family. After they have driven off with the tractor to a picnic, things start to happen very fast.
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
A jar of tomato sauce bewitched fall into the hands of an innocent young woman. It is going to give birth to the most tasty monster of Italy : Spaghetti Man
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
A man and a woman find themselves trapped in their office, as the whole world turns zombie. Can they escape from the building, and from their flesh-eating former workmates?
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
In a city devastated after the end of the world, Mr. Zombie gets home after a hard day of work. He opens the door and enters his dark appartment. When he shuts the door, the lights turn on and... Surprise!
Malody
Phillip Barker ¬  12 m 06 s
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
As an infirm young woman sits at a quiet diner counter, her surroundings become increasingly unstable. The ensuing chaos, as her world literally turns upside down, triggers an ominous sequence of events.
Pargu
Sean Grounds ¬  3 m 56 s
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
A cartoon penguin and his friends teach kids about sharing in a format geared towards children of the digital age.
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
A couple of uber-goths ride on the public transit to the mall to buy more lipstick, but take care of the subtext! Pain, suffering and eternal damnation wrapped in velvety angst. Itʼs sunny outside, but dark in their souls!
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
The end and the beginning of an era. Reference to boredom, cynicism, pessimism and the widespread belief that civilization leads to decadence.
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
When a stranger enters a seedy bar in Montreal to talk to Dimitri Rasclove, he quickly realizes that he is not welcome here.
Le Sous-bois
Oh my gore!
22:00:00
What happens after death? Where do we go? The journey of a man into the Afterlife where souls go through an ultimate transformation. Inspired from the works of the French artist Marc Giai-Miniet.
March 15th
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
Bydlo
Patrick Bouchard ¬  06 m 43 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
In Bydlo, inspired by Mussorgskyʼs music, Patrick Bouchard imagines a mighty ox emerging from the damp earth only to be devoured by the greed and rage of mankind.
Sevilla
Bram Schouw ¬  11 m 14 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
Three youngsters make a roadtrip to Seville that will change their lives forever.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
Jeff is driving. Nydia is behind him. Their motorcycle glides between cars and time is suspended. The trip ends and Nydia goes back to her monotonous routine. But all is well, Jeff will return.
Yardbird
Michael Spiccia ¬  13 m 00 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
«Yardbird» is a film about a young girl who lives in a remote wrecking yard who takes on the local bullies when they travel out to torment her father.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
In a world that has really been turned upside down, the true is a moment of the false. (Guy Debord, «The Society of the Spectacle»). What about the boreal forest?
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
A man and a woman love each other, as if it were the last time... Until next time.
Tram
Michaela Pavlatova ¬  07 m 00 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
It is the daily routine for the driver of the streetcar. As every morning, the people embark to go to work. Nevertheless, soon, abecause the shocks and vibrations of the road, at the rate of tickets introduced into the stamping machine, the driver exhilarates and the vehicle erotizes.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 6
10:00:00
When a grocery store clerk learns that her boyfriend has died, she keeps their love alive by moving his body to the store's produce refrigerator.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
All is well on the volcanic island of Ometepe, located in the middle of Lake Cocibolca, in Nicaragua. All the animals live in harmony. Harmony? What?! Elections are coming and the tension is going up.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
Elastika is not like any other little girls. First, because she is made of elastics. Also because her universe is a land of cork. Her journey is also one of a kind and was shot in stopmotion, that required over 10 000 pictures.
Rives
Pier-Luc Latulippe ¬  15 m 35 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
A boozy evening among friends.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
Melissa, 22 years old, two children, distant relatives and a lover. One evening to find the man who would finally allow her to live happily, Melissa leaves her children three and sixy.o. alone in the apartment. "But it's only a game" she thinks she absent mided...
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
A blacksmith travels back to Montreal, seeking a woman he once loved. Helped by Fire, his longtime friend, the blacksmith will try to rekindle the memory of the woman he loved.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
Fear of bridges.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
As a young actress gets closer to getting the part she desires, she must face an unexpected event that might change everything.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
Jacqueline and Mario had been married for the past 36 years. Jacqueline and Mario are living in a suburbs near Québec City. Jacqueline et Mario are ''ordinary people''.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Shoot no matter what!
13:00:00
The hour is late. The night sky is pitch black. But still, Didier must attend his cow.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
Score
Lawrence Côté-Collins ¬  9 m 11 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
Audrey and David wash their dirty clothes in public while debating the question : "How much is too much?"
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
Edward longs to escape his menial life as a short order cook, but fear of the unknown makes him a prisoner in his own family. His only chance to break free comes from his fatherʼs reckless behaviour.
Aquarium
Philippe Grégoire ¬  14 m 26 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
The end of a relationship brings a woman face to face with the emptiness left by the one she loves.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
Tiago is an inmate. It's been some time since he last returned to his hometown. On a visit to his sister, he finds a very different landscape from the one he remembers. Something has also changed in the interior landscape of the people who live there.
Micta
Elisa Moar ¬  1 m 22 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
“And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
Alone in the ruins of a world she never knew, a little girl copes with time and solitude with the means at her disposition; a sprawling scrapyard, a calm imagination and her sole confident, a Board with an eye carved on it. The beginning of an odd conversation...
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
While on vacation at the seaside, a young man is attracted to his aunt.
Sidewalk
Binevsa Berivan ¬  17 m 00 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Program 2
13:00:00
A day in Memoʼs life, cloistered in a house basement. The small loophole that allows him to breathe and see the light is also an opening to the outside. To life.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
The voiceover: "I-don't-say-you-who-tells-the-history" leads us through three extreme situations that are the same ... will you survive?
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
Murdochville,1957. A family is forced to move, as the father, pained by a long minersʼ strike, finds a new job in the city. Jocelyne, Pierre and René, his three children, are gettg ready for the Big Move.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
A modern-day coupleʼs secret love affair comes to a bittersweet end during an evening phone call. But the visuals of the film reveal something entirely different: the epic reinterpretation of their relationship set in feudal China.
Mila
Kristina Wagenbauer ¬  17 m 00 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
Mila, a 10-year old girl, is recording the sounds of her everyday life. She has something special in mind.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
Living with ghosts of the past could drive you to the edge of the void. But maybe it is there youʼll find peace within yourself.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
Edmond, small and discrete, is an efficient employee. When colleagues deck him out in a dunceʼs cap, his true nature is revealed. His new identity creates a barrier of misunderstanding between him and the others.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 3
15:00:00
The film follows a small town rural police force as they try to uncover a series of nonsensical suicides caused by single older men drowning within shallow sloughs.
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Carte Blanche IndieLisboa
15:00:00
Liberdade, an Angolan boy, and his Chinese girlfriend, Betty, navigate through the complications of their burgeoning identities. Traveling across the urban and natural landscapes of Angola, they go from a Chinese karaoke in Shanghai to the ship graveyard at Santiago beach.
Rafa
João Salaviza ¬  25 m 52 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Carte Blanche IndieLisboa
15:00:00
Six o'clock in the morning and Rafa finds out that his mother is under arrest. On a friend's bike he crosses the bridge and goes to a police station in downtown Lisbon to see her and wait for her release. Time goes by. But Rafa doesn't want to return home alone.
Carne
Carlos Conceição ¬  17 m 00 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Carte Blanche IndieLisboa
15:00:00
A nun wants company for the night. But when she returns home things look different.
Barba
Paulo Abreu ¬  22 m 00 s
Salle Murdock - Chicoutimi
Carte Blanche IndieLisboa
15:00:00
A smart cookie, a dreamer, a simple man and a lazy one live together during the pre-civilization period. Pessimism and sense of humour to show that man always stays like himself, no matter how many changes he makes in the world. And it ends in style.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
Joey is a clumsy bluebeakbird that lives in the jungle of Puerto d'Azu. Because of his small wings he can't fly. When he finds the love of his life at the top of a tree he has to be inventive.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
A crazy, irresistible, intense, spectacular car chase between police and four unlikely accomplices.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
Clara's lives a quiet and solitary life, much to the chagrin of her family who wishes she would find someone to grow old with. Upon the
sudden death of her aunt, Clara inherits her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but revealing friendship.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
I love to riding my bike. It helps me to feel free. I got it from my dad. After 382 days spent riding through the streets of Montreal, being sometimes quite cold, sometimes quite hot - and sometimes quite scared, I dedicate this movie to him.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
Dozens of emigrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal: conquer fortress Europe. When they arrive there after an exhausting journey, the confrontation with another brutal reality awaits them: the European handling of refugees.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
A young finnish hunter is robbed by a reindeer and he ends naked in the snow.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
The voiceover: "I-don't-say-you-who-tells-the-history" leads us through three extreme situations that are the same ... will you survive?
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
An intimate look at the unusual hobby of a reclusive bicycle technician.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Short & sweet
19:30:00
A boy celebrates his first double-digit birthday with his family. After they have driven off with the tractor to a picnic, things start to happen very fast.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Panorama Pays arabes
19:30:00
Stuck with their parents in traffic at a checkpoint outside Jerusalem, two six-year-olds, Yuval from Israel and Mahmoud from Palestine begin to play and end up fighting over a Batman doll.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Panorama Pays arabes
19:30:00
Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When she is caught by a small boy, all she wants to do is to go home.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Panorama Pays arabes
19:30:00
After two years together, Alaa and Mai encounter the first big crisis in their relationship in a café in Cairo. In this city, always changing and always relentless, the old and the new clash and anything might be possible.
Sessiz
Rezan Yeşilbaş ¬  14 m 20 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Panorama Pays arabes
19:30:00
1984, Zeynep, who lives in Diyarbakır with her three children, wants to visit her husband in prison. She is only able to speak her mother tongue ‘Kurdishʼ; however, only the Turkish language is allowed in prison. On the other hand, she wants to bring a new pair of shoes to her husband but itʼs forbidden to bring anything to prisoners from outside…
Tasnim
Elite Zexer ¬  12 m 00 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Panorama Pays arabes
19:30:00
Tasnim, a strong and opinionated 10-year-old, lives with her mother and siblings in a neglected Bedouin village in the Negev. A surprise visit from her father forces her, for the first time in her life, to confront the conservative norms of the family tribe.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Panorama Pays arabes
19:30:00
Two best friends, a charismatic street urchin, and a defiant blacksmith's son, who strive to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
A meditation on solitude and the ties that unite us. Three journeys, three solitudes. Life, death and the other.
Henry
Yan England ¬  21 m 00 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
Henry, an elderly concert pianist, undergoes a series of confusing experiences as he searches for his wife. He will finally discover the inevitable verdict of life.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
During the winter of 1995, Mimi, a young teenager, grieves her best friend, Julie, who died suddenly in a car accident. For the first time, at age 14, death becomes a possibility for her.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
In this city, something is dying... Portraits of a futuristic city that reflect on the sorrows of the present in the grand dystopian tradition.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
Lucy, en route to an important job interview, gets stuck in a horrible traffic jam in the downtown core. Just as she is about to lose all hope, she sees Kam, an attractive guy in an adjacent car caught in the same situation as she is. A lighthearted exchange ensues.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
Frozen in a world in black and white, Jean Dupuis suffers from chronic boredom since his earliest childhood. His meeting with Astrid is going to upset his life and to colour his existence… Do we have only one single true and unique love in life?
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 4
19:30:00
The last journey of a fish as it sings its own requiem, from its sale at the fish market all the way into the frying pan.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
The tomato was discovered by Europeans along with the New World. The Aztecs bequeathed this plant, which now covers a third of the arable land on the planet ...
Sonya
Florence Pelletier ¬  3 m 48 s
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
The young director André Forcier talks bout his beginnings in the dreamlike universe of cinema with his first love and muse, Sonya.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
Custos
Jean-Marc E.Roy ¬  09 m 55 s
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
Roger, a Korean war veteran, as been living around the Kenogami lake for 21 years. Heʼs a real warned guardian.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
In Obaska (Abitibi-Témiscamingue) everybody get ready for the arrival of the TV show La Petite Seduction. This time, the lucky winner is Véronique Cloutier, a star of the small screen, loved and admired by everyone. Obaskaʼs locals reserve her a real nice welcome party.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
In the small village of Rémigny Témiscamingue, Gaston is a man well known for his involvement in the community. Hand on heart, he makes constant service to his entourage. But giving without counting brings its share of complications.
Périmés
Olivier Labonté LeMoyne ¬  09 m 00 s
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
False identity
20:30:00
Julien and Guillaume are two brothers who believe they will expire when they reach 30. Through the lens of a documentary filmmaker they individually explain their theory.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
The short film Everything is all right is a tale that takes form threw a little girl's eyes.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
Dozens of emigrants climb on to an overcrowded truck. Their goal: conquer fortress Europe. When they arrive there after an exhausting journey, the confrontation with another brutal reality awaits them: the European handling of refugees.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
A story about personal accountability for collective action. It is set in a world much like our own, except that it is a world in which collective responsibility is returned to its rightful place.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
“You donʼt know who we are.”
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
Assembly features a rhythmic soundscape and paint-on-glass animation. It was inspired by Studio D filmmakers and is dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Shannon.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
"Students are not against the people, they are the people." With excerpts from speeches of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, Jeanne Reynolds, Jacques L'Heureux and Paul Ahmarani (this last one reading a work of Victor Hugo).
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
This film tells us about the dismantling and the course of the day March 9, 2012 at the Blockade 138. Filmed in the midst of the demonstrator., this film accurately describes the action and emotion of the moment.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
A poet is looking for a place where there is neither sounds, nor noises, nor words, to let the body of his son lie in peace. He is walking in the various districts of Colima and sees everybody smiling, all these people for whom the life continues, while he has to make adieus to his son.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
Set in Thailand in April 2010, the confrontations between anti-government protesters and the army are intensifying. Violence emerges at a time normally reserved for the Songkran festival, an annual explosion of happiness.
Karuzela
Marcin Kaminski ¬  16 m 00 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
2012. Afghanistan. During one of routine patrols a polish soldier dies. The information spreads inside a military base. What will be the response of polish soldiers for the tragedy? Can we stop the carousel of violence?
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
FOCUS Cinéma Guerilla
21:30:00
The last perfomance on Earth.
Ameba
Francisco Rios ¬  12 m 29 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
A couple with the intention to have sex for the first time encounters a complicated situation when they have to face a physical challenge. This challenge will make them face their beliefs and question their values.
Faillir
Sophie Dupuis ¬  24 m 00 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
Ariane lives in Val-dʼOr. She will soon be moving to the big city and is getting ready to leave everything behind. As she bids farewell to her brother, the sexual tension that has always arisen between them seems to take up the whole space...
Joda
Theodore Ushev ¬  3 m 00 s
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
A woman writes a letter to a man who will read it from his jail cell. A letter of love, of concern, compassion, suffering and hope.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
A story of pirates in Somalia told from the perspective of the Somalis.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
An 8-year old boy, full of life, tries to pull a carrot through a hole in the Warsaw ghetto wall, unaware that two SS soldiers are following his every move. A true story without a feel-good ending to blur the harsh realities of the Holocaust.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
An observation of an ethereal happening, as the inhabitants of a semi-industrial suburb inexplicably float into the night sky. After failing to save her boyfriend from this sudden loss of gravity, a girl struggles to escape the same fate.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
I love to riding my bike. It helps me to feel free. I got it from my dad. After 382 days spent riding through the streets of Montreal, being sometimes quite cold, sometimes quite hot - and sometimes quite scared, I dedicate this movie to him.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
Program 5
21:30:00
The story of a kidnapping gone horribly wrong.
March 16th
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
P'tites vues
09:30:00
A single yellow leaf hangs on the bare branch. A gust of window blows and it begins to float through the white winter forest. In joyful pursuit, a little bird takes off into a breathtaking flight. In the meantime a fiery red fox licks its lips in anticipation.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
P'tites vues
09:30:00
Meline is a little girl who spends his days drawing in the barn of her grandparents, where she laid a corner. One day she meets a small frightened furry creature who was lost in the barn.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
P'tites vues
09:30:00
A depressed little orange is quiting its crate to land in its neighborhood, a band of merry pineapple dancers .
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
P'tites vues
09:30:00
Despite her father's stories, the GRUFFALO's daughter sets off into the woods to find the "big bad mouse", which is the only thing her father is afraid of. Based on the children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
Salle François-Brassard - Jonquière
P'tites vues
09:30:00
In the middle of a pond full of tadpoles lives a triton, half-tadpole, half-fish. He wants only one thing: to finally be alone on his pond lily...
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
«Allah Is Great» is a road movie which tells the story of Frank, a Danish engineer who is in India for a work project and Salim, his Muslim taxi driver. Both belong to totally different worlds, their incomprehension will make their journey full of crashes and disadvantages.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
Sulo, a lonely artist, lives in the countryside. One day, as he is going to see his ex-wife, he meets 18-year old Venia. Sheʼs in the middle of moving to a new apartment Sulo, rather unenthusiastlically, decides to helps her.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
An endless sea, a world in which sails hope, solitude, dreams and fears of exiled men, found in the Port of Montreal when the day comes to its end.
June
Karim Haroun ¬  10 m 30 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
A young man, Richard, spends with his sister Annie the last few hours before she moves away to Africa.
Joug
Benjamin Roy ¬  22 m 00 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
16:04. Someone rings the doorbell. Thereʼs no one inside… but that wonʼt stop him from coming in.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
Walter and his wife Helga have been leading parallel lives for many years now. One day, Walter hears on his tractor radio news of a gigantic asteroid hurtling towards the earth. He decides to conceal the end of the world from Helga and becomes determined to create the best possible last day on earth for her.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
School films
15:00:00
A husband and wife have drifted apart over the years. He lives on the floor, she lives on the ceiling. The marriage hangs in the balance.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 8 - Longs courts
15:00:00
Amant and Aslan are persecuted. At stake are their lives and the life of their child. Isolated from and forgotten by the rest of the world, they plead for help in vain. In search of a better life, they entrust their destiny to God and attempt the impossible.
Acrobat
Eduardo Menz ¬  28 m 00 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 8 - Longs courts
15:00:00
In «Acrobat» five short scenes take us, for some brief moments, into the lives of six different characters. The film depicts daily life in a simple and touching manner, letting it unfolds at times with optimism, at times with melancholy, sometimes with strangeness.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 8 - Longs courts
15:00:00
In the district in demolition, of a city in a country of Eastern Europe, Micha has to deal with ghosts of the past. Bruised pictures of concentration camp which gradually will reveal themselves.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 8 - Longs courts
15:00:00
"It's not my fault, it's not your fault, it's the landscapes fault". Linus is 16 years old and has just fallen in love with his best friend's girlfriend. Never could he imagine that it would bring such aching consequences.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
If it has to be “stick no bills”, why then arenʼt the billboards prohibited? To criticize this form of visual pollution, Ludo decided to satirically reuse renowned Parisian brands selling us mutant plants, insulting cactuses and deadly pineapples... Artfully reminding us that in the city of fashion and chic “greed is the new color!”
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Alexandre Orionʼs paintings stand out amongst the thousands the city has to show. Instead of using a spray can or a brush, he cleans the walls to reveal skulls. But when the police come around, they prefer to clean up his pictures! The pollution itself can stay...
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
While the country is dealing with a tremendous economic crisis, people are hitting the streets and street art is hiting the walls. Heading this «artivist» movement, Bleeps and his team - disgusted by the increasing poverty and elitesʼ cynism - have decided to stir peopleʼs conscience by using «poisoned» stencils.
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Écran de Neige - Chicoutimi
Free Styles
19:30:00
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
This is the true story of Kendrick, a young, black calf roper grafting through the local, all-white rodeo circuits in the southern United States. He practices and competes relentlessly, with dreams of one day making it to the National Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas.
Mookie
Neske Beks ¬  19 m 20 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
Nine year old Mookie is a secret agent stationed in Amsterdam, where he lives a life full of adventures. In everyday life, however, heʼs Mamitaʼs little brother and Suyenʼs son, and he's struggling with a strange blood disorder with a funny name: sickle-cell anaemia.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
After appearing in “Rosemaryʼs Baby”, Elmer Modlin fled with his family to a far off country and shut himself away in a dark apartment for thirty years.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
An animated documentary about repair and recycling in an Irish village.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfatherʼs illness and the countryʼs dark past under dictatorship.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Program 9 - Documentaires
19:30:00
In Kennesaw, a small American town in the state of Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen. By law, since 1982, each head of household must own at least one working firearm with ammunition.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Rétrospective Peter Volkart
21:30:00
A rare glimpse into the life of a suburban mouse, living the lavish and sumptuous lifestyle of the rich and famous. Legendary Kodachrome Super-8 movie from the early 80ties. A restored and digitally remastered version from the Institute of Pataphysics. 100% Scientific & romantic!
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Rétrospective Peter Volkart
21:30:00
He was in the headlines for a brief period in the late 1920s: Igor Leschenko, the young physicist from Hermannstadt, whose bizarre experiments cast doubt upon the law of gravity. Rare film documentation of a hazardous journey beyond Zentropa through the Karfunkel archipelago.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Rétrospective Peter Volkart
21:30:00
Should the government get involved in promoting and funding the arts? In the 1960s this question was avidly discussed in the small Swiss Canton of Aargau. A film about a visionary patron of the arts, a performance artist who mysteriously disappears and a unique arts funding scheme.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Rétrospective Peter Volkart
21:30:00
On the move with Monsieur Sélavy. A film diary about the vicissitudes of existence and how to encounter them with dignity. A journey in which space and time coordinates become a bit tangled.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Rétrospective Peter Volkart
21:30:00
The travelling salesman Jonathan Fisch peddles glass eyes. His journey takes him to the edge of the province, where he checks in to a run-down hotel. The attic room 606 has its pitfalls. Something rather peculiar is happening beyond the wall...
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
Guang
Shio Chuan Quek ¬  14 m 00 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
A story about two brothers. The elder brother, Wen Guang, is autistic. He struggles with social interaction, and has difficulty performing day to day obligations. He also has a secret passion for collecting wine glasses.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
An unsettling but important film about when a system becomes more important than a person's life. Seven minutes without dialogue. The most unsettling aspect of the film is that it could be absolutely true.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
A young outlaw and his aging mentor, as they anxiously wait to deliver a cryptic package to their ominous employer.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
Itʼs the sixties. Samantha, a little girl who loves classic b-movies and monsters, is living an uneventful life. That is, until the monsters start to invade her bedroom. Her obsession compels her parents to seek help from the latest scientific breakthrough.
Paula
Dominic Etienne Simard ¬  10 m 29 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
Based on a news item, this short animated film presents a disturbing expressionist portrait of a working-class neighbourhood tragedy featuring a prostitute and a young child.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
«Purpl Love» evokes the simple, fleeting union between lovers, Ambre and Romarik. An idyllic moment evolves through the intangible and spiritual conversation of the two lovers as they work their way to the shores of tantric orgasm.
La bifle
Jean-Baptiste Saurel ¬  25 m 30 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
Program 7
21:30:00
Insecure about his penis, Francis is afraid to reveal his feelings to Sonia, his employee. But when she gets a role in the latest Ti-Kong film, he no longer has a choice. He must save Sonia from a terrible danger: the Dickslap.
March 17th
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
Joey is a clumsy bluebeakbird that lives in the jungle of Puerto d'Azu. Because of his small wings he can't fly. When he finds the love of his life at the top of a tree he has to be inventive.
Korida
Janis Cimermanis ¬  7 m 00 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
A corrida is taking place in Madrid. Everything is going the usual way, but suddenly the bull begins to win over the bullfighter. The rescue team is called to help with this situation.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
Three children, Spring, Summer and Autumn, won't let their little brother Winter play along with them. So he has to find a way to make his sisters and brothers notice and worship him. And he does...
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
Two disabled toys escape from the factory and find themselves lost in an urban world full of humans, moving quickly around them.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
Max x.ʼ tries out his new digital camera. But, surprise, surprise, things don't go as planned.
Snap
Thomas G. Murphy ¬  7 m 00 s
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
The Water haggis live an idyllic life in its beautiful underwater cavern. Sadly, for a young haggis called Snap, life isn't so idyllic. But when he meets a cool frog called Freddie, Snap makes an unlikely new friend.
Théâtre Banque Nationale
P'tites vues 2
09:30:00
Alexander the knitter has long forgotten the reason why he lives suspended beneath the clouds.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
'Gravity Of Center' is a short-film adaptation of Victor Quijada's full-length work for RUBBERBANDance Group. Follow this pack across remote landscapes as the need for individualism is suffocated by their dependence on the group.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
The true story of the filmmaker's Great-uncle Jimmy, a gay Broadway chorus dancer who checked himself into rehab for addiction.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
A short story. A man and a woman locked in a never ending cycle of addiction and desire. Slowly losing their ability to separate themselves from each other, they try to hold on to dead fleeting moments as they mark the days passing them by.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
Matt Giordano, a talented drummer, reveals the challenges he faces as someone with Tourette Syndrome.
Plan B
Jasmine Ellis ¬  4 m 00 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
Three young men waiting at the laundromat.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
Bad Luck City follows a man on his solitary and superstitious journey through the city. Shot on black and white Super8, the film is like a dark song about an urban cowboy. Moonlight, so nice. Sunrise, so nice. Bad Luck City, I cried , cried, cried. Bad Luck City, cried all night.
Tigre
Alexandre Roy ¬  02 m 56 s
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
Take a trip on a tiger's back. With improvised soundtrack recorded during a live show by Dumas and his band.
Petit Théâtre (UQAC) - Chicoutimi
Music and creation
15:00:00
It's getting darker outside and the doors of an old parisian bookstore close. Slowly the characters on the book covers displayed on the shelves awake - and a lovestory evolves between Mina, Dracula's fiancée, and the skeleton of Macbeth...