ZOLANG WE NOG KUNNEN
(AS LONG AS WE CAN)
a film by PHILIPPE NICLAES
Produced by DIPLODOKUS - coproduced by VRT CANVAS - with the support of VAF Filmfonds, TAX SHELTER MAATREGEL VAN DE BELGISCHE FEDERALE OVERHEID
Director of photography GEERT VERSTRAETE Editor PETER DANIELS Sounddesign ALEXANDER BAERT Composer TUUR FLORIZOONE
SELECTED AT Docfest Brugge
PITCH - The three shops that we follow in this documentary are the last of their kind in the village. Villages such as Koolkerke or Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Tielt used to have six grocery stores, but today there is one. A drugstore like my mother's is threatened with extinction. They all continue to do so, for their regular customers and especially for themselves. From a kind of pride and a tribute to their parents or grandparents who once started it. Somehow it is also a fight against loneliness. We see the same picture in the three shops: they are all 70+ people who know nothing about it and who try to maintain social contacts within the village.
