AN ANGEL IN DOEL
Director Tom Fassaert
Countries Netherlands, Belgium
Duration 76 min
Synopsis
Near the port of Antwerp lies the village of Doel. A village that has been in the way of the megalomaniac expansionary urges of Antwerp for decades, and now finally has to disappear. While Doel is slowly dying, the elderly Emilienne attempts to keep up a pretence of normality. At her kitchen table village life seems to continue like nothing has changed. But when her close friends leave, the village priest dies and demolition begins, the downfall seems inevitable. Will she ultimately also be forced to let go? Eventually AN ANGEL IN DOEL is about mans struggle against the inevitable: his own mortality.
Near the port of Antwerp lies the village of Doel. A village that has been in the way of the megalomaniac expansionary urges of Antwerp for decades, and now finally has to disappear. While Doel is slowly dying, the elderly Emilienne attempts to keep up a pretence of normality. At her kitchen table village life seems to continue like nothing has changed. But when her close friends leave, the village priest dies and demolition begins, the downfall seems inevitable. Will she ultimately also be forced to let go? Eventually AN ANGEL IN DOEL is about mans struggle against the inevitable: his own mortality.