Feature film, in post production release date tba 2026
Produced by 100% Scripted
Dir Noël Loozen
Every morning, Sjef, a 73-year-old regional taxi driver, follows the
same route through South Limburg, the Netherlands. Same roads, same
elderly passengers, same silence. He picks up passengers who rely on his
rattling minibus for elderly yoga, doctor’s appointments and their
fragile link to the outside world. They are not just his passengers but
his social life, his daily rhythm, his last sense of belonging, just as
he is theirs. Driving is not simply his job, it is his anchor.
When
Sjef is dismissed with immediate effect and ordered to hand in his keys
and his bus, he refuses to give it up. He goes out to collect his
passengers one last time. At an ordinary T-junction, where he would
normally turn right to bring everyone home, he accelerates straight
ahead. Away from the village, away from the end, and into what remains
for a long time an unknown destination, taking everyone with him.
What
follows is a slow, unplanned escape that often becomes dangerous,
carried by ageing and fragile bodies. The bus crosses several borders,
stopping at garages and youth hostels. Industrial landscapes slowly turn
more idyllic as the bus grows emptier. Time loosens its grip.
Conversations fade. Routines collapse. Certainties fall away. What
begins without a clear destination gradually reveals one: the right to
choose. Toutes Directions is a
tragicomic, offbeat road film about ageing, autonomy and the quiet
rebellion of refusing to stop. A coming-of-age story at the very end of
life. Because even when everything seems fixed, all directions remain
open.