Festival Ile Courts (Short Movie Festival) 2015: Travel by Elephant

If there’s one event that’s highly anticipated by movie lovers, it’s most definitely the Festival Ile Courts (Short Movie Festival). The 8th edition organized by the association Porteurs d’Images is scheduled from October 6th to 10th, 2015.

Since 2007 Porteurs d’Images’s mission has been to develop the Mauritian cinema. This is why the association launched in 2009 the Mauritius International Short Film Festival. Again this year, the festival will be a real window on the 7th art of the Indian Ocean. Creation, production, dissemination ; everything is in place to encourage and promote the Mauritian cinema and more broadly the cinema of the Indian Ocean.

With a known agenda to entertain, educate and train, Ile Courts is devoted to the discovery and promotion of cinema in all its aspects. During the festival, you can enjoy contemporary movies, access training workshops of the various cinema trades and also participate in discussion forums between professionals and the public.

For your enjoyment, screenings of feature films are planned in towns and villages across the island: Réduit, Bagatelle, Chemin Grenier, Moka, Rose Hill, Tamarin and Port Louis, the capital. In Tamarin such projections will be on the beach. With your feet in the sand, the lapping waves as background noise, you can watch movies on an ephemeral screen installed for the occasion. Can you imagine a more pleasant environment to watch a movie? We can’t !

All fictions and documentaries programmed during the festival are Indian Ocean productions. You will discover films from South Africa, Comoros, India, Madagascar, Mayotte, Mozambique, Reunion Island, Seychelles, Tanzania and Mauritius of course. This should open up a whole universe (for many still unknown) and allow the discovery of a totally different film culture.

This year, Ile Courts is illustrated by the Elephant, an animal symbolizing longevity, strength and travel. This demonstrates the willingness of the association Porteurs d’Images to perpetuate the Mauritian 7th Art.