AWARDS // FRIDAY 12th OCTOBER 2018 AT 19:00PM AT THE SINEMA KOLTAR OF TAMARIN

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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MCB

A little boy and his cat, under pouring rain, in front of the street shop of a Gato Pima seller…

Chased by the unknown, but known to the chaser. Forget and you’re trapped, stop and you’re dead.

What would happen if most of the island’s public beaches disappeared?

A youngster buys a scratch card in a place where making noise is prohibited…

A man commits suicide to appease his suffering, following the death of his wife and child.

A duel between two gangs

In partnership with the Institut Français de Maurice.

Whether it carries the history of men and their struggles, our utopias or our dreams, documentary cinema invites us to meet the world and meet others. We sometimes tend to believe that this form of filmmaking, because it seeks the truth, because it testifies, because it is created with reality, is manufactured without artifice, without mise-en-scene, without screenwriting… It’s also ignoring that documentary cinema is above all cinema.

This workshop is aimed at journalists wishing to develop their skills in the field. The world of short films is too vast to be able to gain an oversight on the basis of a few titles. The questions that a short film director asks himself/herself, the solutions he/she brings, the pleasures viewers take, are very close to the considerations that goes into a feature length film.

How do you fulfill your dreams when you’re 20 years old and living in a small isolated village in the Senegalese Sahel? While searching for friendship, love and ways to make contacts overseas, day by day Ibrahima, Djiby and Abou are building a double life for themselves on Facebook. Sending messages in a bottle, writing their diaries? Their posts and research on social media are their only link with the outside world – our world from which they know they are excluded.

The Director and Godmother of the Festival – Chantal Richard

After studying philosophy and literature, then cinema at I.D.H.E.C, Chantal Richard dedicated herself to the making of her films. Whether fictional or documentaries, those have often taken her to Africa. She also animates film workshops, among others at FEMIS, ENS Lyon, CREADOC Angoulême, the University of France Télévisions, the MRSH of the University of Caen, the Association Porteurs d’Images in Mauritius, Varan Workshops…

The La Tête Ailleurs screenings of the Île Courts Festival are an opportunity to venture on the cinematic path of a region of the world or on a particular theme. As well as a unique opportunity to meet the directors of some of the presented films and open up to foreign perspectives.    

A vision of the Africa of tomorrow. This is what we propose with those three ‘Afrofuturist’ short films. With different styles and approaches, they do not fail to exhibit unique and unusual images. A particular film genre that this 11th edition of the Île Courts Festival invites you to discover.

In collaboration with the Institut Français de Maurice.

Thomas is a trafficker, shipping European refugees who hope to find a better life in Africa. Left as sole survivor when his boat sinks off the African coast, he heads towards the nearest city – Drexciya.

Mbwana’s and Juma’s dreams become reality when they photograph a gigantic fish leaping out of the sea and their small town blossoms into a tourists’ hotspot as a result.

This film explores the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. The now, the past & the future are rethought and reordered to create something soulful and ‘mindbendingly’ visceral.

The La Tête Ailleurs screenings of the Île Courts Festival are an opportunity to venture on the cinematic path of a region of the world or on a particular theme. As well as a unique opportunity to meet the directors of some of the presented films and open up to foreign perspectives.    

Nicknamed “the Pearl of the Caribbean”, Haiti has many stories to tell. This is what the Ciné Institute based in Jacmel in the south of the country proposes with four Haitian short films screened in the presence of director Wood Jerry Gabriel. Offered by the Île Court Festival as part of a series of Tête Ailleurs screenings dedicated to the exploration of islands through cinema.

In collaboration with the Ciné Institute and the Institut Français de Maurice.

After her husband’s funeral, Martha is consumed with grief and gradually sinks into the abyss of her memories.

Junior, 15, fuelled by the flame of brotherly love, starts all kinds of activities to take care of Peter, his 10-year-old brother. Following an incident with Maxime, they will fight to survive.

Two mothers, Maricide and Lovely, live in Baie d’Orange, a secluded village in Haiti. The lack of access to sexual education, combined with their personal beliefs, make their everyday life an ongoing battle for survival.

In Haiti, a silent disease is attacking Nature. Plastic bottles and waste are increasingly visible, everywhere. The population is becoming aware of this terrible trend and is taking steps to stop the invasion.

The La Tête Ailleurs screenings of the Ile Courts Festival are an opportunity to venture on the cinematic path of a region of the world or on a particular theme. As well as a unique opportunity to meet the directors of some of the presented films and open up to foreign perspectives.   

The Film Grain Foundation, organizers of the Valetta Film Festival, offers you a journey to the island of Malta through four short films shot on the Mediterranean island. A screening in the presence of director Angélique Muller. Offered by the Ile Court Festival as part of a series of Tête Ailleurs screenings dedicated to the exploration of islands through cinema.

In collaboration with the Valetta Film Festival, the Film Grain Foundation and the Institut Français de Maurice.

A farmer discovers that by not registering his sheep, the sheep are now illegal. He is fighting in the courts to save the family herd.

Malta, 2003. A British tourist unwillingly sparks up a very political conversation about Malta’s accession to the EU aboard a traditional Maltese bus.

It takes no longer than a second for best friends to become worst enemies. A poetical modern-day satire inspired by the western spaghetti genre.

Feeling guilty that he told his sister she could eat the prickly pears that were meant for his grandmother’s birthday, a boy embarks on a mission to secure replacement fruits.

The La Tête Ailleurs screenings of the Ile Courts Festival are an opportunity to venture on the cinematic path of a region of the world or on a particular theme. As well as a unique opportunity to meet the directors of some of the presented films and open up to foreign perspectives.    

Head to the Isle of Groix, off the coast of Brittany (France), with a program proposed by the Festival International du Film Insulaire de l’Ile de Groix (FIFIG). Offered by the Ile Court Festival as part of a series of Tête Ailleurs screenings dedicated to the exploration of islands through cinema. 

In collaboration with the Festival International du Film Insulaire de l’Ile de Groix (FIFIG) and the Institut Français de Maurice.

Obsessed by the dream that man could one day fly like a bird, an inventor experiments his machines on a tiny abandoned island.

The story of Louis, Jean-Pierre, Lanig, Serge, Jean and the others… Those who have been watching the fires and kept the lighthouses.

Offered by the Ile Courts Festival since its inception, the Sinema Koltar screenings bring Mauritians together in an outdoor public space to discover, under the stars, short films of different genres and from around the world. 

We will conclude this series of Sinema Koltar screenings in the south with a stopover at the Waterfront of Mahébourg. Seven short films from six different countries will enlighten the Waterfront with stories of different genres and open to all.

In collaboration with the District Council of Grand Port.

Rostam, the old Persian national hero, travels to the future and comes to Teheran in 2017, in order to make up for what he has done to his own son.

On the island of Martinique, 8-year-old Joseph decides to confront Lentikri, an ancestral monster, which may be prowling around the house to attack his family.

Asylum seekers clash with border soldiers until a deaf-mute child becomes a catalyst for better communication between the two groups.

Vinoba, a farmer, decides to take an extreme action to scare away the local authorities who intend to forcibly acquire his fields.

Love and revenge over coffee and cakes. Eight Shakespeare characters. Five different plays. One café. This is Speaking Daggers.

A pretty crazy start-up creates donuts of watercress from waste water and waste thrown by people.

Two girls walking along a city sidewalk, talk about their family troubles when they find a homeless man asleep.