All audiences
Location: University of Mauritius . Réduit
Hall: Lecture Theatre 2
Duration: 1h10
curation
Île Courts Festival & British Council
Location: University of Mauritius . Réduit
Hall: Lecture Theatre 2
Duration: 1h10
curation
Île Courts Festival & British Council
free entrance
Tuesday, 6 October . 12:30
Tuesday, 6 October . 12:30
Nesma’s Birds
Mohammad Jaafarn, Najwan Ali, Fatima Sah, Medoo Ali
United Kingdom / 2013 / Fiction / 8′
English
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
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!
The Magnificient Lion Boy
Ana Caro
United Kingdom / 2013 / Animation / 10′
English
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.