COURTS DANS LES PRÉS

RURAL SHORTCUTS

Edition n°1 - 2025

From 22 to 23 November 2025

Selection announcement date 18 October 2025

JARZÉ VILLAGES, FRANCE

No entry fees for this festival

"Courts dans les Prés" : un événement unique qui célèbre la Ruralité à travers l'art du court-métrage. En plein cœur de la campagne, ce festival met en lumière la diversité et les enjeux de la vie rurale contemporaine : terres nourricières, nature, environnement, transformations sociales et dynamiques économiques ... Il cherche à témoigner de la vie des campagnes, à raconter les histoires des hommes et des femmes qui y vivent à travers le monde.

Festival policy

Submit a film

SHORTS IN THE MEADOWS - Call Open

Closing 07/09/2025

No entry fee

“Rural Shortcuts" is a unique event celebrating rural life through the art of short film. From the heart of the French countryside, this festival seeks to highlight the diversity and challenges of contemporary rural life: lands that feed us, wildlife and ecosystems, social transformations and economic pressures. The festival will bear witness to the diversity of country life and recount human and rural stories from around the world.

Selection criteria

Production's date (Min)

2020

Duration (Max)

20’

Zones géographiques

WORLD

Subtitles requested

Screening copy :

If the film isn’t in French mandatory subtitling in French or at least in English

Screener :

If the film isn’t French mandatory subtitling in French or at least in English

Specific criteria

Your film must deal with RURALITY.

This festival seeks to highlight the diversity and challenges of contemporary rural life: lands that feed us, wildlife and ecosystems, social transformations and economic pressures. The festival will bear witness to the diversity of country life and recount human and rural stories from around the world.

Submit a film