all audiences
Saturday 29 September . 6 pm
l’Atelier littéraire . Port Louis
free admission
T : 208 29 15
This year, Île Courts invites a Tunisian festival, Les Rencontres Cinématographiques de Hergla. The selected films offer a journey in the lands of Maghreb, through several generations of Tunisian film makers.
Errance
Nouri Bouzid
Tunisia / Fiction / 2009 / 13’
A representation of black Africa in the mind of Tunisian people. This film is part of “L’Afrique vue par…”, a collective film composed by ten short films written by African directors and produced and presented at the 2nd Pan-African Festival in Algiers (Panaf’ 2009, Algeria)
L’Ambouba
Nadia Raiss
Tunisia / Animation / 2010 / 10’
Ambouba must not forget her appointment with Meherzia and Beya before 5 pm in Tunis. But time flies…
Tabou
Meriem Riveill
Tunisia / Fiction / 2011 / 15’
During a long, lonely night in Ramadan, Leila, a young eighteen year old girl, confronts her demons and her body pushes her to recall what happened to her…
Le Cuirassée de Abdelkarim
Walid Mattar
Tunisia / Fiction / 2004 / 10’
Young Tunisians are waiting to get their visa.
La Poule de Sabaa
Meriem Riveill
Tunisia / Animation / 2011 / 10’
Before she sleeps, Sabaa asks her mother to tell her a story. Between her mother’s version and Sabaa’s imaginary world, an unexpected story emerges…
Vers le Nord
Youssef Chebbi
Tunisia / Fiction / 2010 / 16’
It’s a dark night. Lost on a beach in the middle of nowhere, Mehdi and Nito, two smugglers of illegal migrants, are preparing to conclude a deal with the Albanian Mafia.
Screenwriter, producer and director, Radha-Rajen Jaganathen was born in Mauritius on 10 October 1951. After a particularly violent cyclone took away their small house, his family emigrates to Strasbourg in 1960. He obtains his baccalaureate as an independant candidate, and enters the INSAS-Institut National Supérieur des Arts et Spectacles, a Belgian film and theater school. After two years of theatrical studies, Radha-Rajen Jaganathen takes part in the examinations of IDHEC-Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques. He is admitted as the top of the class in this film school where he meets Makiko Suzuki, his partner. After having worked as an assistant director and assistant camera, he creates a production company, Quintet Films, which produces film language learning programs. In the series Image par image, with Jean Douchet et Makiko Suzuki, he analyses the great classics of the history of cinema (Fritz Lang, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Griffith, Eisenstein, Jacques Tati). They also produce a series for children, Ça c’est du cinéma, which is broadcast in nearly 20 countries. Twenty short films of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are presented in this program in order to help the young audiences to become familiar with the film language.
