Île Courts International Short Film Festival (Île Courts,
French
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: ''Festival international du court métrage de Maurice Île courts'') was an annual autumn
festival
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of
world cinema
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on the island of
Mauritius
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, with a focus on
short film
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s from the
Indian Ocean
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area. It was organised from 2007 up to 2018 by the local non-profit Association Porteurs d'Images with
David Constantin
David Constantin (born 1974) is a filmmaker from Mauritius.
Career
Constantin was born in Mauritius, Mauritius Island in 1974.
He obtained a degree in Information and Communication, and then attended the ESAV (Higher School of Audiovisuals) i ...
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
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,
documentary
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,
animation
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, or
experimental film
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.
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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
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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
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, 2012),
Anurag Kashyap
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(
India
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, 2013),
Newton I. Aduaka
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Filmography Short films
* ''Voices Behind the Wall'' (1990)
* ''Carnival of Silence'' (1994)
* ''On the Edge'' ...
(
Nigeria
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, 2014),
Ruchika Oberoi (India, 2015),
Licinio Azevedo (
Mozambique
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, 2017), and
Chantal Richard
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(
France
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, 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.
References
External links
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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.
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