Doodgraag (Deadly fond) - Danni Heylen and Hans Van Cauwenberghe

A war reporter has seen children die of hunger, seen people shot dead, and looked death in the eye several times himself. But nothing hits him as deeply as his mother's resolute choice for euthanasia. “A person wants to live with dignity, so a person also wants to die with dignity,” she says, while he struggles with disbelief, grief, and powerlessness. Danni Heylen – as the mother, in a rarely seen, layered dramatic role. Hans Van Cauwenberghe – as the son who survived the war, but not the gentle determination of his mother. Doodgraag (Dearly) is a raw, intimate, and true-to-life conversation between a son and his mother – about loving to live and loving to die. About how close death only really gets when it enters your own house. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes disarmingly witty, always relentlessly honest. Based on the book 'Memoires vol leven en dood' (Memoirs full of life and death) by Patrick Van Gompel Stage text: Paul Govaerts and Patrick Van Gompel Direction: Ignace Cornelissen Realized with the support of the tax shelter measure of the Belgian legislator via Flanders Taks Shelter and CC De Warande.