Cycles

Views from overseas

Fête du court métrage 2025

4 films

This year, the French Institute is offering a selection of five films highlighting the realities, cultures and landscapes of the French overseas territories. Through the richness of images and stories from young filmmakers from these territories, this cycle explores various topics such as identity, history, ecological and social issues, resilience and interculturality.

Views from overseas
  • Comedy-drama
  • 2023
  • 20min
by Adiel Goliot

Twenty-seven-year-old Mauricette Bonnarien works as a docker at the port of Dégrad des Cannes in French Guiana. The rest of the time, she slams. Conflicted about her family name ("Good-for-nothing"), imposed on her ancestor when slavery was abolished, she is fighting to complete a name change procedure. It's time to make her new surname heard by those around her.

  • Drama
  • 2024
  • 13min
by Kim Yip Tong

On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on the reef on the east coast of Mauritius. 12 days later, oil began to spill, causing the worst ecological disaster ever to occur in the region.

  • Experimental film
  • 2018
  • 13min
by Laura Henno

In the Hauts de Mayotte (The Comoro Islands), a secret space, of magic and escape, men and dogs, maintain filial almost intertwined relationships, companion species who share a common land of transformation and autonomy. Smogi has a particular relationship with dogs but also with the power of the elements, nature and the sly spirits that inhabit him (the djinns). “Djo” crosses different belief systems in a wild syncretism where the Muslim call to prayer also marks a moment of reunion with the animist and impure forces of the forest.

  • Comedy, Young audience
  • 2023
  • 20min
by Nicolas Séry

In a Reunion Island housing project, as the time of the sacrifice for the Aïd el-Kebir approches, Ibrahim, 12 years old, of Comoran descent, is bullied by Evan, a neighbour of the same age, who accuses him of being an animal killer, When Ibrahim learns that a goat is about to be delivered to his building he decides to save it. But Evan is watching.

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