Cheers & Cheerio (2010)

"Cheers & Cheerio" documents five historic pubs in Belgium's Flanders Fields, once vital community hubs. Now, dwindling customers threaten the owners – Gisele, Alice, Julien, and Lies, aged 75 to 89. Each day, they anxiously await their first visitor, except Lucienne, whose health issues forced closure. The film explores how time relentlessly impacts these individuals, highlighting themes of friendship, humor, loneliness, and perseverance as they hold onto a past that is inevitably slipping away. These five pubs and their generation face imminent disappearance. "Cheers & Cheerio" captures a poignant moment, offering a warm and heartfelt reflection on a fading way of life.