The Caméras des champs festival, which explores the issues of the rural world, travels to Lorraine

For its 25th edition, the festival offers documentary screenings every weekend in several towns in the Lorraine Regional Natural Park. In total, eighteen films are available to discover until May 19.

Talking about the issues of rurality throughout the world is the subject that brings together all the films screened as part of the Caméras des champs festival, the 25th edition of which we are celebrating. For more than a month and until May 19, the festival travels to seven villages in Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle to meet film buffs. “I enjoy it, each film is magnificent, the human side that emerges touches me enormously”, confides a regular.

For its new edition, the Caméras des champs festival offers an eclectic program with documentary films from around the world, each of which takes a look at environmental issues.

“When we talk about deforestation in the Amazon or the preservation of the forest in the Meuse, we have the same concerns about the responsibility of humans in the management of the planet, but we are not in the same personal configuration and the issues of survival are not the same”, explains Luc Delmas, founder of the festival.

Around the theme “Villages in transition, villages on the move”, this 2024 vintage invites debate on local questions and solutions allowing the rural world to evolve. “Everything is becoming urbanized and rurality is perhaps the future of a more human life”dares an optimistic spectator.

Lands of the future

Disputed lands, welcoming lands, lands of the future, lands to be protected, the festival does not avoid any determining theme for the conservation of rurality. Through around twenty works, spectators will be able to discover stories of combat, transmission or how today’s ideas can bring forgotten territories back to life.

Like Celebration day, a documentary by Philippe Barrier which follows the establishment of a festival in the heart of a village in the south of Oise. Every year, all the residents participate from far or near in the festival, with one desire: to build social ties. “Large conurbations end up becoming unlivable hells. I think that centers of life distributed in balance with nature can be a much more interesting solution for the future and it is already in the present,” assures the director.

The Caméras des champs festival travels every weekend until May 19 in the municipalities of Ville-sur-Yron, Jarny, Ars-sur-Moselle, Joeuf, Mancieulles, Conflans-en-Jarnisy. Entrance to the sessions is free.