In the presence of Moussa Touré, Senegalese director and the patron of Île Courts Festival 2012.

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TRIBUTE TO RADHA-RAJEN JAGANATHEN

Île Courts Île Courts pays homage to Radha-Rajen Jaganathen by offering the audience the opportunity to rediscover two of his films:

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.