CLOSING WORDS
By Agnès Lejeune & Gaëlle Hardy
A film by Agnès Lejeune & Gaëlle Hardy
A coproduction Les Films de la Passerelle, WIP - Wallonie Image Production, RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge Francophone produced with help of Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallimage, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral belge, Liège Airport, Shelter Prod, Tax Shelter.be, Association pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité, Solidaris, La Wallonie - Aviq/famille/santé/handicap, CAL (Centre d'Action laïque)
Synopsis
A consulting room in a public hospital in Belgium. A doctor receives patients: men and women, often accompanied by a relative. Most of them are seriously ill, and they know it. Sent by their GP or specialist, they have come to talk about their end-of-life situation and seek a second medical opinion. In the closed environment of this unique consultation, they build their own end-of-life scenario with Dr Damas. A lesson in life and humanism...
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Year: 2021
Duration: 72' and 52'
Languages: French, English, Dutch
Screenplay: Agnès Lejeune & Gaëlle Hardy
Direction: Agnès Lejeune & Gaëlle Hardy
Cinematography: Hugo Brilmaker
Sound: Olivier Mottard, Ludo Van Pachterbeke,
Celine Bodson, Arnaud Hockers & Gaëtan Lino
Editing: Idriss Gabel
Sound design: Adrien Pinet & Sébastien De Mol
Mixing: Pascal Zander
Calibration, special effects: Benjamin Dontaine
Music: Greg Houben
Production Director: Celine Rauw
Producer:
Christine Pireaux - Les Films de la Passerelle
Festival selections (9)
Doclisboa 2021
FIFF 2021
Warsaw Film Festival 2021
DocPoint Helsinki 2022
Alès Itinérances Cinema Festival 2022
The Stars of SCAM 2022
Astra Film Festival 2022
Europa Prize 2022
Audiovisual laurels 2023
Awards (4)
★Audience Award (FIFF 2021)
★Special Mention (Warsaw Film Festival 2021)
★Star of SCAM 2022
★Laurier Francophone du Nord 2023