Good Neighbours

Good Neighbours

2DCS/ES12
Director:Stella Van Voorst van Beest
Premiere:13. March 2019
Length:80 minutes
Genre:Document

Director: Stella Van Voorst van Beest

This sensitively made film follows two best friends with a lofty ambition: for the world to stop seeing social isolation and old age as inseparable companions.

A dead woman is found by chance in a small flat in Rotterdam. No one had looked for her for over ten years. Based on this report, active seniors Ada and Wilma decide to join a community volunteer organisation that runs a campaign against social isolation. Together they visit apartments door to door armed with a questionnaire to try to map the number of lonely seniors in their immediate vicinity. They listen to their stories, offer them company, but also the opportunity to come out of the house and engage in active social life.

Length: 80 min

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 13. March 2019
World premiere date: 0. 0000

Country of origin:

  • Netherlands

Director: Stella Van Voorst van Beest

This sensitively made film follows two best friends with a lofty ambition: for the world to stop seeing social isolation and old age as inseparable companions.

A dead woman is found by chance in a small flat in Rotterdam. No one had looked for her for over ten years. Based on this report, active seniors Ada and Wilma decide to join a community volunteer organisation that runs a campaign against social isolation. Together they visit apartments door to door armed with a questionnaire to try to map the number of lonely seniors in their immediate vicinity. They listen to their stories, offer them company, but also the opportunity to come out of the house and engage in active social life.

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 13. March 2019
World premiere date: 0. 0000

Country of origin:

  • Netherlands