Île Courts International Short Film Festival (Île Courts, French: Festival international du court métrage de Maurice Île courts) was an annual autumn festival of world cinema on the island of Mauritius, with a focus on short films from the Indian Ocean area. It was organised from 2007 up to 2018 by the local non-profit Association Porteurs d'Images with David Constantin and others, featuring screenings at various locations on Mauritius, including villages and beaches. Film entries should run no longer than 30 minutes, be spoken or subtitled in French or creole, and fall in one of the genres fiction, documentary, animation, or experimental film.. On JSTOR in English:
Funding The festival was supported by the (French Institute of Mauritius) and the . From 2014 to 2016, Porteurs d'Images was funded by the ACPCultures+ programme of the European Union led by the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Group of States, in the project "The Archipelago of Cinemas - Île Courts-International Short Film Festival of Mauritius".
Invited leading film director Since 2012, each festival invited a special established film director to serve as the event's godfather or godmother: Moussa Touré (Senegal, 2012), Anurag Kashyap (India, 2013), Newton I. Aduaka (Nigeria, 2014), Ruchika Oberoi (India, 2015), Licinio Azevedo (Mozambique, 2017), and Chantal Richard (France, 2018).
Contents Each edition of the festival featured various training workshops for filmmakers and script writers, debates, roundtables and professional meetings, such as Forum Film Bazar where film professionals of the Indian Ocean met. The programme Film Fabrik helped young Mauritian filmmakers from scriptwriting to film production and distribution. From 2009 up to 2018, 30 short movies (fiction, animation and documentaries), published in 6 collections, were produced through this programme. In "Fim Zekler" contests short films of no more than ten seconds competed.
Festival year Film Filmmaker Year Genre Duration (min) 2009 Waramutseho! (Bonjour!) Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu (Cameroon) 2008 Drama 21 m Guyane Imanou Petit (French Guiana) 2009 Fiction 13 m 2010 Madagascar, carnet de voyage Bastien Dubois (France) 2009 Short animation 12 m Dounouia, la vie Anthony Quéré, Olivier Broudeur (France) 2009 Comedy short 12 m Atlantiques Mati Diop (Senegal) 2009 Drama 16 m Drogba est mort Eric Rivot, Moussa W. Diarra (Mali) 2009 Drama 9 m Temps mort Mohammed Bourouissa (France) 2009 Experimental 18 m 2017 Pran nesans (prendre naissance) Daniella Bastien (Mauritius) 2014 Documentary 14 m Lot kote lagar (De l'autre côté de la gare) O'Bryan Vinglassalon (Mauritius) 2017 Fiction 15 m Oeil des marins (L') Leslie Wallace Athanas (Mauritius) 2017 Documentary 14 m 2018 Entrée du personnel Manuela Frésil 2013 Documentary 59 m La sociologue et l’ourson Étienne Chaillou / Mathias Théry 2016 Documentary 78 m Chronique d’un été (Paris 1960) (Retrospective) Jean Rouch / Edgar Morin 1960 Documentary 85 m Pour la suite du monde (Retrospective) Pierre Perrault / Michel Brault 1962 Documentary 105 m
References
External links
Videos . Video duration 2m 11s. Uploader Porteurs d'Images, 2017. . Video duration 8m 39s. Uploader Kwa Films, 2018. . Video duration 1m 54s. Uploader Porteurs d'Images, 2018. . Video duration 4m 31s. Uploader ION News, 2018. French spoken. . Video duration 13m 58s. Uploader Daniella Bastien, 2021. French spoken and screened at Festival Île Courts 2016. Title "Pran Nesans" is creole for French "Prendre naissance", Come into being.