Île Courts 2015

Sinema Koltar #2 Indian Ocean

The Screenings
With Sinema Koltar, Île Courts Festival unfolds its screen right under the stars. In lineup, a selection of short films from the entire Indian Ocean. It’s in front of the Plaza that this series continues, with a Soundtrack as musical opening act to this night of screenings!



Programme

Sébastien Margéot Project

Before watching the films, let’s unite musically around the Soundtracks, opening musical act of the screenings of Île Courts Festival. Together, the four musicians of the Sébastien Margéot Project put their musical talent to the service of a spirit of world-fusion that asserts itself as innovative in its mission to tie the present up with the traditions of the past. Together, they are a breath of life.

Distribution
Sébastien Margéot > vocals, guitar, percussions
Vincent Nombro > keyboard, percussions, chorus
Jean-Jacques Valéry > bass, percussions, chorus
Christophe “E.T.” Joseph > percussions, chorus

Selfie
Julian Ratinon
dans le cadre de EcoClip
Mauritius / 2015 / Animation / 3′
Without dialogue
From window to window, Ambre observes a changing world.
Stiff
Samantha Nell
South Africa / 2014 / Fiction / 13′
Sotho, Zulu and English, subtitled in English
Tholang, well-known entrepreneur-cum-funerary-director in Soweto, South Africa, has a knack dealing with the dead but not the living. Things go sour when his niece arrives and ends up losing the body of an important politician.
Its Not a Joke
Jon Rabaud
Mauritius / 2013 / Fiction / 7′
Without dialogue
On the way back home after a hard day of work, a man starts musing about his past, present and future.
Filmmaker in attendance.
Coups de Hache Pour Une Pirogue
Gilde Razafitsihadinoina
Madagascar / 2014 / Documentary / 19′
Antemanambondro (Malagasy dialect), subtitled into French
In southeastern Madagascar, pirogues are still built using artisanal, some might say rudimentary, techniques. It’s a work that can’t be started without first making an incantation to the ancestors, one that’s always accompanied by “toaka gasy,” the local rum.
Filmmaker in attendance.
Autumn Leaves
Saman Hoseinpuor
Iran / 2015 / Fiction / 4′
Without dialogue.
On her way to school, a little girl gets distracted and ends up running late.
Inseparab
Doushan Sewtohul
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 30′
Mauritian Creole, subtitled in French
Kaal and Roshan, best friends since childhood, have promised themselves to stick together for good and not let even death separate them. But destiny has a different plan.
Filmmaker in attendance.
Swayer-Corporations
Rathindran R. Prasad
Turkey, India / 2015 / Fiction / 30′
English and Tamil, subtitled in English
A young activist, who has set his mind on murdering the CEO of a chemicals company, crosses a mysterious old man on his path.
Filmmaker in attendance.
Rough Life
Sitraka Randriamahaly
Madagascar / 2015 / Animation / 5′
Without dialogue
If you haven’t been born with a silver spoon in your mouth and your future hasn’t been safely traced out in advance, then get up and start walking!
Filmmaker in attendance.

2015 Collection


2015 Île Courts Festival is a real little film factory!

Set in place by Porteurs d’Images Association, the programme Film Fabrik offers to scriptwriters/directors, since 2008, the technical, financial and logistical means to make their own films, lending them a helping hand from the stage of working on the script to diffusing the finished artwork.
Film Fabrik is the will to foster the development of a unique local cinema, one very much our own yet capable of travelling well beyond our borders. To this day, more than 30 short films have been made within the framework of the Film Fabrik programme.

The 2015 Collection presents the three latest productions of the Festival, films that fall under the umbrellas of both traditional narrative filmmaking and experimental filmmaking.

At the heart of this collection, the films Boutik and Rod Zegwi dan Pikan are the first artistic works to bear the label “Made in Moris.”

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The Short Films

Phone Connection
Sophie Robert
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 4′

Today, Neha and Hanuman both celebrate their birthdays. But they cannot get along because of some communication problems.










Interview of Sophie on Phone Connection

ITV Ile Courts 2015 / Sophie Robert from Porteurs d'Images on Vimeo.



Boutik
Damien Dittberner
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 15’
Gaëtan has lost the toy soldier with which he had been playing. As he tries to work out how to get a new one, he soon realizes that the adults around him will be of no great help. So Gaëtan decides to jump into the tangled game of their lives…





Rod Zegwi dan Pikan
Azim Moollan
Mauritius / 2015 / Experimental / 5′
A moment suspended, in mid-air, in Melissa’s memories of tightrope-walking…










The trailer : Rod Zegwi dan Pikan

Bande annonce . "Rod Zegwi dan Pikan" de Azim Moollan from Porteurs d'Images on Vimeo.



Interview of Azim on Rod Zegwi dan Pikan

ITV Ile Courts 2015 / Azim Moollan from Porteurs d'Images on Vimeo.



The Filmmakers

Sophie Robert

Mauritian-born, Sophie Robert first pursues law studies in England. All while working in “the City” (London), she keeps up her interest in cinema and embarks upon a Masters in Film History at the University of Westminster. Her natural penchant for writing leads her to take part in screenwriting workshops, most notably in those of London’s Script Factory.

She also participates in some acting workshops and works at the Raindance Film Festival. Upon returning to Mauritius in 2012, she is selected for Ile Courts 2012’s writing workshop Écrire court. Becoming more and more deeply involved in the field of cinema, she joins the team of David Constantin’s feature film Lonbraz Kann in 2013 as assistant casting director.

As part of Film Fabrik, Sophie Robert directs in 2014 her first short (fiction) film, La Leçon d’anglais..

Damien Dittberner

Being raised on three different continents turned Damien Dittberner into quite the cultural gypsy, but it’s in Mauritius that the young filmmaker finally decides to settle down for good. Born in 1984 in Bruxelles, Belgium, he grows up in Washington, and yet his Mauritian roots never leave him.

After studying journalism and communications at the University of Delaware, then cinema at the University of Prague, Damien works in the audiovisual field of New York City. There, he is involved in projects dealing with short and features films, commercials and even videoclips, an experience that allows him to rub shoulders with experienced film and photography directors. It’s in 2011 that Damien decides to fly back to Mauritius, where now he works as producer, director and editor for his own film house, Mocean Film.

In 2014, Damien takes part in the fiction scriptwriting workshop Keeping it Short of the Ile Courts International Film Festival of Mauritius. Following this workshop, his film project Boutik (Cornershop) is taken on for production by the Porteurs d’Images association in the framework of Film Fabrik 2015. In 2015, Damien had dedicated himself to the making of both this short film and a documentary about Mauritius.

Azim Moollan

Born in Mauritius in 1985, Azim Moollan is

. a director of photography on film sets,

. a photographer during his spare time,

. a wannabe poet in everyday life,

. and a rising artist in his dreams.

In 2014, Azim participates in the animation workshop Draw Me a Short of the Ile Courts Short Film Festival of Mauritius. Following this workshop, his film project Rod Zegwi dan Pikan (Looking for a Needle among Thorns) is taken on to be produced by the Porteurs d’Images association within the framework of Film Fabrik 2015.

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La Tête Ailleurs #2 Indian Ocean Focus. EcoClip

Screening / discussion

La Tête Ailleurs, is an occasion to take a trip down the cinematographic universe of one region of the world. Scanning the Indian Ocean, we travel to the heart of our islands in the company of six young and budding directors who broach the issue of sustainable development in their films.



The ISLANDS projects, financed by the EU and implemented by the Indian Ocean Commission, has launched in January 2015 a video contest entitled “Ecoclip.” This contest has given the opportunity to youngsters between 16-25 years of age to shoot 3-minute-long films -using a mobile phone – on the topic of sustainable development. National jury panels have chosen a laureate from each partner country: Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles, Reunion Island and Zanzibar. The regional laureates have been invited to the Île Courts Festival, where they have presented their films in the framework of a special screening and have participated in a KinOcéan workshop.


Biogas
Kamaria Ali
Zanzibar / 2015 / Documentary / 4′
Swahili, subtitled in English
Filmmaker in attendance.
Ecoclip
Marielle Benat, Florent Laporte, Romain Soufflet
Reunion Island / 2015 / Documentary / 3′
French
Filmmaker in attendance.
Halte Aux Sachets Plastiques, Un Pas Vers Le Développement Durable
Riantsoa Mihajaharivelo Randrianantenaina
Madagascar / 2015 / Documentary / 4′
French
Filmmaker in attendance.
Boomerang
Ahmed Nassila Thani Saïd Ali
Comoros / 2015 / Documentary / 4′
French
Filmmaker in attendance.
Sustainable Development, Culture & Development
Marius Esparon
Seychelles / 2015 / Documentary / 4′
Seychellois Creole, subtitled in English
Filmmaker in attendance.
Dont Drop a Drop
Akshay Shodhan Naojee, Tanveer Naojee, Lorna Shalini Senivassen
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 6′
Mauritian Creole, subtitled in French.
Filmmaker in attendance.

Incursion de Long

Screening / Discussion

(Re)discover the feature-length narrative film that’s been representing Mauritian cinema in global festivals for nearly a year now. It is one of the last occasions to view it locally on the big screen! Meet the director after the screening in a discussion session.




Lonbraz Kann




Lonbraz Kann
David Constantin
Mauritius / 2014 / Fiction / 88′
Mauritian Creole, subtitled in French

Marco, Bissoon and their friends are in their mid fifties. They worked all their lives in the sugar factory of their village in Mauritius. The factory is closing down and a large billboard has grown up along the road leading to the village: soon here, there will be only a golf course and luxury villas. Caught up in the events, none of them is properly prepared for the all too predictable collapse of their world.

How can you survive your own history, the humiliation and the disintegration of social relations? How can you re-invent yourself, love and live a dignified and independent life when you have never learned to? LONBRAZ KANN tells the story of people, as close as it gets to them. Sometimes on a tenderly mood, sometimes more bitter.

Filmmaker in attendance

Audience Award . Cinémondes Festival (France)
Best Screenplay Award/ Durban International Film Festival (South Africa)

The screening will be followed by an open discussion with the filmmaker, all in good spirit. It will be an occasion to further discuss some core issues and raise interesting questions.

Sinema Koltar #1 Indian Ocean

With Sinema Koltar, Île Courts Festival unfolds its screen right under the stars. In lineup, a selection of short films from the entire Indian Ocean. It’s at the heart of Chemin Grenier that takes place the first night of sinema koltar for which Canal+ and Made in Moris give you a warm welcome!



Boutik
Damien Dittberner
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 15′
Mauritian Creole, subtitled in English

Gaëtan has lost the toy solider with which he had been playing. While he’s figuring out how to replace it, it doesn’t take him long to realize that the adults around will be of no help. So, Gaëtan decides to play their own game by their own rules…
Filmmaker in attendance.
Paandhrya
Sandeep Mane
India / 2015 / Fiction / 30′
Marathi, subtitled in English
Paandhrya is the whipping boy of his school because of the white scars on his lips that have branded him with the degrading nickname of an animal. Deeply touched by the sight of a loving mother and enlightened by a film screened at school, he starts waiting for love from his own mother.
Filmmaker in attendance.
Rakont Mwa, Rakont Nou, Marclaine Antoine
Diana Heise, Yannick Durhône
Mauritius / 2013 / Documentary / 12′
Mauritian Creole, subtitled in English
The (hi)story of Mauritian instruments as told by Marclaine Antoine. By highlighting the value of these objects and explaining their importance, this film aims to foster the spirit to preserve Mauritius’s cultural heritage.
Filmmaker in attendance.
Fasa
Laza
Madagascar / 2015 / Fiction / 16′
French, subtitled in English

It is said that zebus are animals of communication between the living world and the dead world of ancestors. In the face of his destiny, Fasa has chosen poetry as a defensive weapon. A film as compensation!
Filmmaker in attendance.
Thursday Photographer
Sardar Arshad Khan
India / 2014 / Documentary / 11′
Hindi, subtitled in English
Yashodhan Bhatia has a small shop in the town of Jamnagar in India. Everyday Thursday, he closes it to dedicate some time to his passion: photography.
1-0
Saman Hosseinpuor
Iran / 2014 / Fiction / 1′
Without dialogue
A young boy is watching a football match. He is so excited that he forgets to go to the barber. Oops!
Rough Life
Sitraka Randriamahaly
Madagascar / 2015 / Animation / 5′
Without dialogue
If you haven’t been born with a silver spoon in your mouth and your future hasn’t been safely traced out in advance, then get up and start walking!
Filmmaker in attendance.
Le Bonheur Est Ailleurs
Saïd-Ali Saïd Mohamed
Comoros, France / 2013 / Documentary / 7′
French, subtitled in English
Despite the thirty odd years that he has spent in France, where his social integration has been successful, Abdéremane, originally from the Comoros, dreams of one day returning to his homeland.
Phone Connection
Sophie Robert
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 4′
Mauritian Kreol, subtitiles in English
​Today, Neha and Hanuman both celebrate their birthdays. But they cannot get along because of some communication problems.
Filmmaker in attendance.

Festival Screenings

Île Courts Festival invites you, all scattered as you are around the island, on a surprising world tour at the heart of contemporary short films. In movie theatres or right under the stars, at the university or the cultural centre, the festival’s screen unfolds itself this year in Rose-Hill, in Réduit, at Bagatelle, in Chemin Grenier, in Tamarin, in Trianon and in Port Louis, for the pleasure of all our audiences.

The screenings are split between:
    • the Indian Oceanic programme
    • with films gathered through the call-for-submissions of the 2015 Île Courts Festival released in countries of the Indian Ocean, South Africa and India, and in collaboration with our partner festivals, namely the Film d’Afrique et des îles Festival (Réunion Island), the Comoros International Film Festival (Comores) and the Rencontres du Film Court Festival (Madagascar).

    • the international programme
    • in collaboration with the Clermont-Ferrand Festival (France), the British Council (UK), the Islands project of the Indian Ocean Commission, the Asian platform VIDDSEE (Singapoure) and the Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival (Trinidad and Tobago).

      In order to valorize Mauritian artistry in the eyes of our audience(s) and international invitees, each screening will highlight at least one Mauritian film.
All the screenings are free.
During indoor screenings, input from the public will be very welcome!


Tuesday 6 october 2015

Culottes court(e)s

09:00
Young audience . 6 > 9 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

Courts toujours !

10:30 Young audience . 10 > 14 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

La tête ailleurs #1

12:30
Focus Royaume-Uni
All Audiences
University of Mauritius . Réduit

La soirée d’ouverture

19:00
All audiences
Soirée d’ouverture
Cinéma Star . Bagatelle

Wednesday 7 october 2015

Courts toujours !

09:00
Young audience . 10 > 14 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

Culottes court(e)s

10:30
Young audience . 6 > 9 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

La tête ailleurs #2​

12:30
Focus OI . Ecoclip
All audiences
University of Maurtius . Réduit

Sinema koltar #1

19:00
Océan Indien
All audiences
Cour de l’église . Chemin Grenier

Thursday 8 october 2015

Culottes court(e)s

09:00
Young audience . 6 > 9 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

Courts toujours !

10:30
Young audience . 10 > 14 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

La tête ailleurs #3

12:30
Focus Asie du Sud-Est
All audiences
University of Mauritius . Réduit

Soundtrack #1
Sinema Koltar #2

19:00
Océan Indien
All audiences
Plaza . Rose-Hill

Friday 9 october 2015

Courts toujours !

09:00
Young audience . 10 > 14 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

Culottes court(e)s

10:30
Young audience . 6 > 9 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

La tête ailleurs #4

12:30
Focus Caraïbe
All audiences
University of Mauritius . Réduit

Soundtrack #2
Sinema koltar #3

19:00
Clermont Fait Son Show
All audiences
Public beach . Tamarin

Saturday 10 october 2015

Newton.I Aduaka
Masterclass

10:30>12:30
All audiences
University of Mauritius . Réduit

Culottes court(e)s

10:30
Young audience . 6 > 9 year old
IFM . Rose Hill

Incursion de Long . Lonbraz Kann

16:00
All audiences
MCiné . Trianon

Soundtrack #3
Sinema koltar #4

19:00
All audiences
Caudan Waterfront . Port-Louis

La Tête Ailleurs #4 Focus Carabbiean

La Tête Ailleurs, let’s digress into a little trip down the cinematographic production of one area of the world. The Trinidad + Tobago Film Festivalnous offers us a tour of the Caribbean through the lens of short films. Careful, any similarity to real or fictional people is purely coincidental!



Phone Connection
Sophie Robert
Mautitius / 2015 / Fiction / 4′
Mauritian Creole, English subtitles
Today, Neha and Hanuman both celebrate their birthdays. But they cannot get along because of some communication problems.

Filmmaker in attendance
Old Moon
Raisa Bonnet
Puerto Rico / 2013 / Fiction / 11′
Spanish, subtitled in English

Elsa’s husband has just died and her relatives come to take their leave of him. Elsa observes with concern the relationship between her son-in-law and his daughter. Nonetheless, she continues to go about preparing food, hanging out the washing, feeding the chickens and tending the garden. Only her face gives away her unease.
Grave Digger
Gabrielle Blackwood
Jamaïca/ 2012 / Fiction / 13′
English and jamaican creole, subtitled in English

Two kingston street boys, Brinks and Moses, make a living selling stolen items from freshly laid graves. One night in the graveyard they discover a stash of buried firearms. Brinks decides to sell the guns to an unscrupulous customer despite Moses’s objections – with serious repercussions.
Doubles With Slight Pepper
Ian Harnarine
Trinida and Tobago / 2012 / Fiction / 16′
English, subtitled in English

In rural Trinidad, Dhani struggles to support himself and his mother by selling doubles by the market. When his estranged father returns from Canada unexpectedly, Dhani must decide if he will help save his father’s life despite their strained relationship.
Abecé
Diana Montero
Cuba / 2013 / Documentary/ 15′
Spanish, subtitled in English

Leoneidi is a 12-year-old girl with a baby living in Sierra Maestra, Cuba, where the incidence of child pregnancy is high. Forced to abandon school, and verbally abused by her baby’s father, she struggles with her childish urges to play, the demands of motherhood and the obligations of family life.
Un Toit Pour Mes Vieux Os
Julien Silloray
Guadeloupe / 2013 / Fiction / 22′
French, subtitled in English

JBB is an old man in Guadeloupe. He lives in a shack on a plot of land from which he is set to be evicted. He despairingly seeks the help of Hilaire, a witch doctor. But Hilaire will cause a bigger mess for JBB than he’s already in.

La Tête Ailleurs #3 Focus South-East Asia

La Tête Ailleurs, it’s the opportunity to take a small trip down the cinematographic universe of one region of the world. What about paying a visit to the cinemas of South-East Asia? For a plunge at the heart of the impressive cultural diversity of this crossroad of cultures? It’s the platform VIDDSEE that’s opening the doors of Asia to us!



Rod Zegwi Dan Pikan
Looking for a Needle among Thorns

Azim Moollan
Mauritius / 2015 / Experimental / 5′
Mauritian Creole, subtitled in English.
A moment suspended, in mid-air, in Melissa’s memories of tightrope-walking…
Tudung
Thilagan Narayanasamy
Singapore / 2013 / Fiction / 19′
English and Malaysian, subtitled in English

After the death of her father, a religious woman’s life is turned upside down when her long-lost sister returns home after five years, pregnant. Now, both sisters must reconcile their different views on life, family and religion if they are to live together.
Barbie
Sesarina Puspita
Indonesia / 2012 / Fiction / 8′
Indonesian, subtitled in English.

With her barbie doll, a little girl named Gladys imitates her mother as someone who likes inviting friends over for drinks and gossip sessions.
Para Kay Ama For Grandmother
Relyn A. Tan
Philippines / 2012 / Fiction / 21′
Tagalog, English and Mandarin, subtitled in English.

Hannah is a 28-year-old Chinese-Filipina who is dealing with the recent death of her businessman father in a car accident. During the wake, a surprising revelation unfolds as Hannah meets her half-brother for the very first time. She faces the challenge of dealing with acceptance and forgiveness on the last day of the wake, experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions before finally laying her father to rest.
Seliseh
Ismail Kamarul
Malaysia / 2015 / Fiction / 20′
Malaysian and Mandarin, subtitled in English

Melur and Xiao Li are two girls from different ethnic villages. They meet one another in the most unfortunate of circumstances and need to reach mutual understanding to get out of a hole that they fell down. This film is a metaphorical message of the need for cross-racial and cross-cultural understanding in a multicultural Malaysia.

La tête ailleurs #1 Focus on the United Kingdom

The screenings called La Tête Ailleurs are an occasion to take a small trip down the cinematographic universe of one area of the world. Let’s start with an explosive compilation of ten of the best recent short films from the United Kingdom.



La Valse Des Hommes
Mathieu Piat, Emmanuel de Labauve d’Arifat, Émilie Mooneesawmy, Shegen Ramalingum, Léa Sentenac
Mauritius / 2015 / Fiction / 6′

French​
Right in the middle of a meadow: a table, two men, a discussion…
Cool Unicorn Bruv
Ninian Doff
United Kingdom / 2015 / Fiction / 2′
French
Unicorns, innit.
Crow’s Nest
Robert Milne
United Kingdom / 2013 / Animation / 1′
english
Ever get that feeling that you just can’t win? Crow is busy building his nest, but a cheeky competitor threatens to undo his hard work.
Emmeline
Antler
United Kingdom / 2012 / Fiction / 7′
English
A playful, imaginative celebration of ‘the other’, ‘Emmeline’ is the sweetly comic-absurd fabulation of a girl who isn’t quite like everyone else….
Harriet And The Matches
Miranda Howard-Williams
United Kingdom / 2013 / Fiction / 5′
English
‘It almost makes me cry to tell what foolish Harriet befell…’ Adapted from the traditional German fairy tale, ‘Harriet and the Matches’ is a dark cautionary tale about a lonely little girl.
I Am Tom
Ainslie Henderson
United Kingdom / 2012 / Animation / 7′
English
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.
Nesma’s Birds
Mohammad Jaafarn, Najwan Ali, Fatima Sah, Medoo Ali
United Kingdom / 2013 / Fiction / 8′
English
Awkward 11-year-old Nesma is at odds with the world around her since she began caring for her father’s pigeons after his death. Being forced to get rid of the birds by her mother today will see Nesma face an even bigger challenge as she enters womanhood.
Orbit Ever After
Jamie Stone
United Kingdom, Italy / 2013 / Fiction / 20′
English
Nigel has fallen in love. But when you live in orbit, aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the most risk-averse family imaginable, it isn’t easy to follow your heart – especially when the girl of your dreams is spinning around earth the wrong way!
Art of Motion
Rhodri Williams
United Kingdom / 2013 / Documentary / 4′
English
​A short documentary exploring ‘Parkour,’ looking at the deeper philosophical meaning behind the activity and its sense of community.
The Magnificient Lion Boy
Ana Caro
United Kingdom / 2013 / Animation / 10′
English
On an expedition through Africa, anthropologist Leonard Orlov discovers a strange, feral child, raised by lions. Driven by a desire to civilise this creature, he takes the child back to London. But this is a Victorian England of strict social coventions and high moral values, and very soon, the child goes from being a sensation to being reviled and rejected.
The Secret World of Foley
Daniel Jewel
United Kingdom / 2014 / Documentary / 14′
English
The Secret World of Foley takes us on a journey into the little known world of Foley Artists, who bring films to life by adding sound effects in post-production.

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