The film “Les Petites Victoires” screened in preview in a traveling cinema

In the village of Courville-sur-Eure (Eure-et-Loir), an event is being prepared. Residents board a special truck, a movie theater. The 2,800 inhabitants usually have to travel 20 km to watch a film. That day, the mobile cinema and its 100 seats comes to them. It circulates in 46 rural municipalities in the region. Baldemar Martins, stage manager and projectionist, testifies: “It’s bringing cinemas closer to the inhabitants, to people who can’t move around. It brings animation to the villages.”

A film crying out for truth

The desertification of the countryside is the subject of the film The Small Victories that the spectators discover in preview. Alice, in her thirties, is a teacher and mayor of her small village. Every day, it has to deal with the problems of access to care, the maintenance of public services, the closing of businesses and other hassles of the daily life of its constituents. At the end of the film, the inhabitants of Courville-sur-Eure spoke with the director, Mélanie Auffret. The public finds itself in its characters. A touching comedy full of optimism about the future of the countryside.